#EndSARS Protests: Panel Strikes Out Three Petitions

The Rivers State Commission of Inquiry into the alleged acts of violence torture and violation of fundamental rights of citizens committed by officers and men of the Nigerian Police in the state, has struck out additional three petitions on the grounds of lacking juridiction, bringing to six so far the number of petitions struck out by the panel since the commencement of its sitting in Port Harcourt.
The three recent petitions struck out by the panel include RCPB/2020/026 filed by Chief Clifford Wali, RCPB/2020 /filed by ThankGod Nwabeke and RCPB/2020/020 filed by Paul David
The presiding chairman of the panel, Justice Chukwunoye Uriri struck out the petitions, during the ongoing sitting of the commission in Port Harcourt on Monday
Justice Uriri, while striking out the three petitions opined that the petitions were out of the scope of the commission while reiterating the panel’s earlier positions that it lacked the jurisdiction and powers to usurp the fuctions of a court of competent jurisdictions or any matter adjudicated by such courts