The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, has established the Police Public Complaints Committee (PPCC) to deal with complaints against police personnel in the country.
Inaugurating the committee on Wednesday in Abuja, Mr. Dingyadi said the committee was a specialised institution created to deal strictly with complaints against police personnel.
According to him, the focus was to put in place a permanent structure that would help to effectively check civil unrest.
“If the PPC has been active, it would have provided an adequate channel through which affected Nigerians would have been ventilating their grievances on police brutality,” he said.
He noted that the tragedy that befell the country during the #ENDSARS protest would have been averted if the PPCC was active.
“The Federal Government is determined to ensure that such ugly incidents would never occur again.
“The Public Complaints Commission deals generally with all kinds of complaints against administrative injustices by public institutions.”
He also added that the overriding objective of PPCC is to serve as an institution that has oversight on activities of police personnel viz-a-viz their interaction with the public.
“The habit of the public lodging complaints against police personnel at police stations had not given the desired solutions to aggrieved Nigerians.”
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