Human Rights Commission, through petitions and letters, but no response
was received. A report against the Police authorities was forwarded to the
then President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the nonchalant and
unlawful disposition of the Police hierarchy to the plight of the Community,
but all to no avail.
That by a letter dated 8th November 2014, from the office of the AttorneyGeneral and Minister of Justice in response to their petition, it was admitted
that enquires were made at the Defendant’s Federal Ministry of Justice on
the issue and was forwarded to the National Boundaries Commission which
are yet to respond to same.
The Plaintiffs claimed that the only response they received from the Police
Headquarters
to their
numerous
petitions
was
from
the
Deputy
Commissioner of Police, who rather called Members of the Community
together in the name of peace meeting and since then, nothing substantial
has been done. The Defendant’s Police force has no business under the law
to deal with the issue of determination of boundaries and cannot unilaterally
determine the location of Communities, and it cannot punish the Members of
the Plaintiffs’ Community for exercising their rights to belong to Kogi State.
The Members of Ette community are all Igala people of Nigeria and to keep
them elsewhere is akin to disconnecting them from their history, culture,
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