DEATH IN CUSTODY: Widow, Orphans Seek N1bn Compensation From Police

Family of the police officer who was
reported dead in detention have dragged
the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
and the commissioner of Police in
Kaduna State before a federal high court
sitting in Kaduna over alleged
“gruesome” killing of their unarmed
father.
One Nanbol Audu, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP), who was
arrested on October 23, 2014, by his
colleagues for alleged selling of firearms
to two civilians, was reported to have
died in the cell of gunshot wounds.
Though police claimed that DSP Audu
shot himself in detention, the widow and
children of the deceased accused the
police of the murder of their
breadwinner, adding that the police
authorities had not informed the family
about their father’s predicament since
October 31, 2014.
The widow, Mrs. Patricia Audu, in her
affidavit in support of the suit, informed
the court that her husband had a day
before his death, “informed me that I
should pray for him because from what
the policemen were saying, they wanted
to kill him.”
In the suit no FHC/KD/CS/85,/2014, the
family is asking the court for an order to
declare that the gruesome killing of
unarmed and defenseless Nanbol Audu,
in the early hours of Friday, October 31,
2014, while in detention in the cell of the
police in Kaduna without a court order
and without any justifiable cause
amounting to an infraction of his
fundamental right to life guaranteed by
section 33 of the Nigeria’s 1999
Constitution (amended).

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