The police will soon forfeit their power to prosecute suspects under a
new arrangement being worked out by the Office of the Attorney General
of the Federation (AGF).
The AGF and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), said
at a lecture yesterday in Abuja that in the impending dispensation, his
office would assume the power to prosecute any criminal suspect.
Adoke, while delivering a keynote address at a national dialogue on
torture, extra-judicial killings and national security, organised by the
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), also said extra-judicial
killings in the country had claimed about 7,195 lives, adding that the
situation has contributed to the wave of terrorism in the country today.
