A Federal High Court in Bauchi has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay the sum of N210 million as compensation to families of victims tortured to death by one of its officers in Bauchi State.
The Township Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Baba Ali, was held to have tortured three persons to death namely; Ibrahim Babangida, Ibrahim Samaila and inflicted injuries on Abdulwahab Bello on July 21, 2020.
They were arrested over alleged theft of a number of chickens from a poultry farm belonging to a retired police officer.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Hassan Dikko, while delivering the three judgments separately against the respondents, ruled that the action of the police against the three accused persons amounted to an infringement of their fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The judge awarded N100m each to Hafsatu Babangida and Hajara Samaila, being the biological mothers of Babangida and Samaila.
