Delta State Government to establish Special Victims’ Support Fund

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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday announced that the state government would establish a Special Victims’ Support Fund for the payment of monetary compensation to deserving victims of police brutality or related extra-judicial killings in the state.

The governor made the announcement in Asaba while inaugurating an eight-member Judicial Panel of Enquiry into police brutality and other human right abuses in the state.

Okowa said that it was unfortunate that those empowered to protect the lives of Nigerians were killing and brutalizing them, and urged the panel to unearth all human rights abuses by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of Nigeria Police Force and deliver justice to the victims and succor to grieving families