Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prohibit the Police and other security agencies from subjecting Nigerians to any form of incommunicado detention.
He also urged the president to direct all detaining authorities in Nigeria to publish the names of all detainees and their places of detention.
Falana in a statement issued on Sunday said he had last week submitted a petition to the National Human Rights Commission wherein he complained about the illegal and prolonged detention of 67 Nigerians by the authorities of the Nigerian Navy.
He added that following the publication of the contents of the said petition by the media, a number of the family members and friends of the majority of the detainees have reached out to him.
Falana lamented that since the detainees were arrested by armed and masked naval personnel in mufti without any warrant of arrest and…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
