Nigerian Muslim leaders call on federal government to take action against police killers

by: Salaam

Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 09:52:36 AM EST

Al Jazeera video of police killings: Warning, extremely graphic.

From AllAfrica News:
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) yesterday in Abuja called on the federal government to immediately make public steps taken to bring men of Nigerian police involved in the extra-judicial killings in the Boko Haram crisis to book.

Secretary-General of the council and Baba Adini of Egbaland, Dr. Abdul-Lateef Adegbite, said that it is disheartening that elements of Nigerian Police can still be involved such brutality against the same citizens they are meant to protect.

"A few days ago, Al-Jazeera Satellite Television aired a report on Nigeria Police brutality while suppressing the Boko Haram rebellion in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria last year. Unarmed Nigerians, some of them cripples, were lined up ordered to lie down and were shot dead in cold blood by members of the Nigeria Police. This savage and inhuman act is contrary to Nigeria Law, since no one is authorized in this country to carry out summary killing.

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