The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) on Saturday called on the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command to set up an independent investigation panel to probe into the assault meted out to the Editor of Pinnacle Daily, Sunday Ogwu, by police officers in Lugbe, Abuja.
In a statement, the coalition demanded that the investigation should be “under an independent mechanism outside the direct command structure implicated in the allegation.”
It demanded that the police publicly identify ” the officers and unit deployed to the Lugbe Federal Housing Estate operation on 19 August 2026, and reconcile this with the PRO’s earlier statement to ICIR that the officers may not have been under FCT Command.”
“Preserve and produce deployment records, operational orders, patrol vehicle logs, and any available CCTV or bodycam footage relevant to the operation,” the group urged the police.
On Thursday, the coalition condemned Mr Ogwu’s assault by the police, describing the attack on Mr Ogwu as “unprovoked brutality” and “lawlessness” by operatives of the Lugbe Police Division led by Mr Uchenna, a chief suprintendent of police.
