Bille Demands N110m From Police Over Killing Of Two Youths, Others

The Belle chiefs’ council is demanding the payment of the sum of N110million from the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force over an alleged killing of their two sons, as well as the brutalisation of others by operatives of Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the state police on January 17, 2020 in Port Harcourt.
The chairman of Belle chiefs’ council said the council was demanding that N50million be paid to each of the deceased families, while the sum of N5million each be paid to the other two indigenes of the community, whom he alleged, their two hands were destroyed as a result of police brutality, saying that the money demanded would take care of the wives and children of the deceased men.
Chief Bennett Okpoye Dokubo, who is also a legal practitioner, made the demand on behalf of the Bille community when he appeared before the state Commission of Inquiry Investigating the alleged Acts of Brutality, Torture, Killing, Violence, Fundamental Human Rights Violations by men and operatives of police in the state sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
Bennett told the panel that on January 17, 2020, in Port Harcourt, the police arrested some Bille and Krakrama youths who were fighting at the state secretariat, adding that the police effected the arrest of the people from the two communities, who were invited to the meeting by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Tammy Danagogo.
According to him, they were at the meeting with the SSG in his office at the Point Block of the State Secretariat when they got information that the youths of both communities were fighting, noting that the police were called to calm down the situation on the orders of the SSG.
He averred that the anti-kidnapping operatives, after arresting the boys, later transferred the matter to SARS, where the matter was charged to court.
Bennett said that the court had granted the two men bail adding that the matter was later dismissed.
He further alleged that two of the youths from Bille community, Mr. Tamunotonye Dienye and Endurance Johnbull, who were arrested alongside other youths by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit were later discovered to be missing in the police custody, and were now presumed dead.