Dissatisfied with the way Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command is handling a matter, involving alleged physical brutality of Mr. Idoko, a driver to the Minister of State for FCT, a civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has urged the National Assembly Committee on public petitions to institute a transparent and unbiased investigation of remote and immediate circumstances surrounding the alleged torture.

Idoko was tortured by an unruly mob, and allegedly watched by armed policemen at the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Abuja recently.

HURIWA’s national Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, yesterday, said it is shocking that the armed policemen allegedly participated in the lawless action by illegally branding the driver a thief and therefore set him up for mob attack, which then compelled the entourage of the Minister to intervene and rescue the poor driver from being killed.

In the statement, he said: “HURIWA’s decision to approach the National Assembly is because of the clear allegations that the police operatives at the APC national headquarters in Abuja, may have instigated the mob to attempt to lynch the driver.

“ The group is seriously concerned about the alarming statistics of jungle justice in the country. Most of these mob actions have resulted in gruesome, inhumane torture and extra-judicial killing of people accused of committing an offence. Dozens have suffered death through beatings or burning even as many were innocent.”