The Anambra State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Police Brutality, Extra-Judicial Killings and Other Related Offences has said it needs more time to attend to the 310 petitions filed before it.
According to its Chairman, Justice Veronica Umeh (retd.), said the panel had treated 23 out of the 310 cases and still had 287 others to attend to.
Addressing petitioners on Thursday, during the sitting at the Government House in Awka, the state capital, Justice Umeh said the panel concluded 23 petitions after 11 sittings, including those struck out for being outside the panel’s terms of reference.
She regretted that the panel had the highest number of petitions in the country and, therefore, needed more time to deal with the cases before it.
Justice Umeh said the panel had applied for additional 24 sittings, after the initial 12 sittings, which elapsed yesterday, to enable it attend to the petitions before it.
