Police Officers and Soldiers Arrested for sexually assaulting IDPs
Some soldiers, police officers, men of the Nigeria Air Force, have been arrested for sexually assaultingfemale Internally Displaced persons in various camps. The Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim, disclosed this yesterday while speaking with some senior officers at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. He said the recent report by the International Huma Rights Watch which indicted the security agents, necessitated an investigation by the police which found some of the officers culpable. “About three or four weeks ago, I established a panelto investigate some allegations made by the Human Rights Watch. Investigation was conducted by the IGPs Monitoring Team at the Force Headquarters and they made contact with the Human Rights Watch in order for them to help us verify some of the allegations but, according to the response we got, they said they don’t reveal their sources of information. Despite that, our officers, with much tenacity and professionalism, were able to une
