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Rights commision wants prisons boss arrested

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    Nigeria’s Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission has ordered the arrest of head of the country’s prison service and three police officers for failing to heed summons to appear before it, AFP reported on Wednesday.

    AFP said the chairman of the Commission, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, ordered the arrest of the three policemen and Comptroller-General of Prisons Mohammed Jarmah, on Tuesday in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt where the body is currently sitting.
    The policemen include Assistant Commissioner of Police Kehinde Oyenuga and two junior police officers.

    It was the first arrest ordered by the Commission, set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo after he took office in May 1999. Its mandate is to investigate human rights abuses since January 1966, when the military first seized power in Nigeria.

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