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A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Henry Ayo Sanni, on Friday, told the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigeria Police Force how his younger brother, Femi Sanni, was allegedly gunned down by the Police in Abuja in 2007. He said he had been deceiving the 13 years son of his brother that he his his father but that the intelligent boy had begun querying the claim because he knows Rev. Fathers do not have children. Testifying before the panel, the Catholic Priest from Ilorin Diocese in Kwara State said that the police wrongly named his brother an armed robber because they just wanted to kill him. A statement by the Deputy Director (Public Relations and External Linkages), Fatimah Agwai Mohammed, obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, quoted Sanni as saying that his late brother was a businessman who owned two block industries in Abuja and another one in Ilorin, Kwara state. The Priest therefore asked the panel to order the payment of N250 million compensation in their favour, considering the alleged ordeal of his brother in the hands of the Police and his extra-judicial killing thereafter, among several other violations. While being led by his counsel, Kolade Akande, the complainant informed the panel that he got a phone call from Abuja that his brother has been arrested by the police and he quickly came to Abuja to confirm the incident. He told the panel that when he came to Abuja, he visited FCT Police Command at Garki, where he met one DSP Uzoma Nwoha who is the Police Public Relations Officer FCT Command, who he alleged, threaten to gun him down if he continued asking about his brother.
