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John AbayomiLagos

We go on with the study by Agency of Democracy, Person Rights and Labor on Nigeria's human rights record.

There were no developments in the January 2006 lawsuit in which police force force force military military officers killed two suspected thieves in the Rivers State metropolis of Port Harcourt; the February 2006 lawsuit in which four people were killed when military and police officers stormed the Ariaria marketplace in Aba, Abia State, on the stalking-horse of preventing vigilance men from operating there; the June 2006 lawsuit in which the mass media reported that blood brothers Juth and Romanus Akpowbo were arrested in Kano State after having been accused of armed robbery of the staff living quarters of Bayero University; or the August 2006 lawsuit in which police in Umuahia North Local Government Area killed 12 suspected robbers.

Violence and deadly military unit at unauthorised police force force and military barriers and checkpoints continued during the year, despite multiple proclamations by the Inspector General of Police that independent police barriers would be eliminated. Police generally ignored the orders.

Security military units were known to kill people while trying to extort money from them. For example, on November 8, a police force military officer in Anambra State shot and killed 15 twelvemonth old Daniel Offiali and hurt six other autobus riders after the driver refused to pay a $0.16 (20 naira) bribe. The police force force force force military military officer was reportedly dismissed from the National Police Military Unit and arrested, but at year's end, the position of the lawsuit was unknown.

There were no developments in the June 2006 lawsuit in which Delta State police military military officers beat out Simon Peter Osimiri and left him for dead when he refused to pay a $156 (20,000 naira) bribe, or in the December 2006 lawsuit in which police officers in the FCT outside Capital Of Nigeria shot and killed a driver who refused to pay a $0.16 (20 naira) bribe.

The homicide trial of a Delta State police officer who, in 2005, shot and killed a commercial autobus driver who was not able to pay a payoff had not begun by year's end. The trial of six police force military officers from the Apo country continued, although with frequent and drawn-out adjournments. Police and military military unit used inordinate military unit and, sometimes, deathly force in the suppression of civil unrest, place hooliganism and interethnic violence.

At year's end, a police force probe was in progress regarding a January 30 incident in which one individual was killed and 20 others injured when force erupted at the Oshogbo Local Government Office after respective members of the local authorities council asked the council's president to explicate the outgo of finances from the federal accounts.

Police detained LGC Chairman, Liadi Gbadamosi, and declared 15 councilors wanted. On July 24, police force force shot and killed two people inch Omi-Adio in Oyo State during a clang with members of the National Union of Road Conveyance Workers, who accused police of torturing and violent death a labor union member the twenty-four hours before. The labor union members put the police force station on fire and attacked the military officers on duty. Police arrested 49 persons.

There were studies of summary executions, assaults and other maltreatments carried out by military force and paramilitary mobile police force across the Niger River Delta (see subdivision 1.g.). There were respective violent deaths by unknown attackers that may have got been politically motivated. For example, on February 2, unknown gunmen killed PDP Chieftain, Lawson Onokpasa, of Delta State at his residence. On March 6, unidentified gunmen assassinated Taofiki Onigboho at his abode in Ibadan. Onigboho was related to Lord'S Day Igboho, a suspected hood of Governor Rasheed Ladoja, who was being sought by police force in connexion with the February force in Akure.

On August 19, Victor Obafaiye, the principal witnesser for the Action United States Congress in the Kogi State election tribunal, was assassinated. Obafaiye was important to the lawsuit as he was supposedly in ownership of written documents that would have got served as grounds of election tampering by PDP House of Assembly candidate, Dino Melaye. On May 25, nine suspects allegedly connected to the July 2006 violent death of Lagos State gubernatorial candidate, Funsho Williams, including the three mobile policemen responsible for guarding him and four co-workers stopping point to him, were imprisoned without trial; former IGP Lord'S Day Ehindero declared the lawsuit closed despite the deficiency of a conviction.

On June 9, Ehindero's successor, Michael Okiro, announced that the lawsuit would be reopened and investigated further, but there were no further developments by year's end. Also on June 9, IGP Okiro announced the reopening of the lawsuit of Bolo Tie Ige, the former Lawyer General of the Federation, whose killing, in 2001, is widely believed to be linked to a political difference between the then-governor and deputy sheriff governor of Osun State.

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On October 25, four people who were detained by former IGP Ehindero on intuition of engagement with the lawsuit were released owed to deficiency of evidence. On December 9, President Yar'Adua directed the IGP to reopen probes into all unsolved lawsuits of violent deaths of political figures.

There were no developments in the followers 2006 killings, which may have got been politically motivated: the January violent death by unknown attackers of Hajiya Saudatu Rimi, married woman of former Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi; the June abduction and July violent death of Tableland State gubernatorial aspirant, Jesse Aruku, of the Advanced United States Congress of Democrats party; the August violent death of Ekiti State PDP gubernatorial candidate, Ayodeji Daramola; and the December violent death by unknown attackers of Timothy Ageba Uttah, the former council president of Gboko Local Government Area and PDP aspirer for the state House of Assembly of Benue State.

There were no developments in the July 2006 violent deaths of four people in Emohua and six people in Gokana that resulted from force between packs controlled by competing political leadership in Rivers State.