The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Wednesday, slammed the Nigeria Police Force for alleged attempts to blackmail a whistle-blower, 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Nnamdi Daniel, in an organ harvesting case allegedly involving top police officers in the Anambra State Police Command. HURIWA in a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the massive transfer of all the police operatives from Anambra State to other states and the redeployment of other police operatives to Anambra State by the Police Service Commission is suspect. The group, therefore, demanded that a separate judicial commission of investigators made up of independent forensic scientists, criminologists and others be constituted by the Anambra State Government to unravel the circumstances behind the organ harvesting allegations against the police. Recall that in February, Daniel, a whistleblower through a blog, Gistlover, shared evidence accusing three members of the state police force of the atrocious activities. Following the allegations, the force Headquarters set up a panel to investigate the matter after inviting the officers involved to Abuja and subsequently freeing them. Earlier in April, after two months, Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the panel investigating the allegations of killings, extortion and organ harvesting levelled against some senior officers of two police formations in Anambra has...
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