Canadian judge labels Nigerian police criminal organisation, denies ex-SARS officer asylum



A Canadian Judge has denied asylum to ex-member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad due to his association with the brutal unit and the Nigeria Police Force as a whole.


In October 2020, SARS was scrapped after a nationwide protest against its decades of harassment, intimidation, extortion, robbery and extrajudicial killing of more than 100,000 citizens.

Court document said the cancellation of the dangerous squad was not enough for Judge Sébastien Grammond to favourably consider Olushola Popoola’s request for asylum.

Mr Grammond arrived at the decision on April 8 after Mr. Popoola asked for a judicial review of the decision of the Canadian immigration department, which had earlier declared him inadmissible into the country because of his association with the Nigeria Police Force.


Grammond ruled: “I am dismissing his application because the decision-maker reasonably assessed the relevant factors for deciding whether Mr Popoola made a knowing and significant contribution to the crimes committed by the Nigerian Police Force.”

The court gathered that Popoola served as a police officer between 2002 and 2015 when he left the force to leave Nigeria for United States. He crossed into Canada from the U.S. where he has been seeking asylum in a bid to settle permanently.

Popoola argued that he did not partake in brutal violence and other forms of criminality that SARS carried out in the course of his service, and added that he should be considered as a civil ex-officer due to his voluntary exit from the force.

But Mr Grammond disclosed that Popoola could reasonably be assumed to know about the murderous and exploitative activities of SARS, even if he did not participate personally.

The Judge ruled: “Since Mr. Popoola reasonably knew that when he was a member of the SARS the suspects he handed over to the criminal investigation department would be subject to human rights violations.

“The tribunal finds this to be a significant contribution to the criminal purpose of the organisation since he had the knowledge of what could befall the individual subject to investigation.”

I applaud the Judge. Nigerians should take note - the world is keeping track of what’s going on in this country
and would make people pay for their misdeeds. More news of this nature is yet to come.

Our government does not care.

Tigaromil:
Our government does not care.

Buhari does not care

They destroyed this country, steal, kill and want to use the stollen money to run to another country to enjoy what others worked for and preserved for their citizens.

The Judge ruled: “Since Mr. Popoola reasonably knew that when he was a member of the SARS the suspects he handed over to the criminal investigation department would be subject to human rights violations.

Nothing but the truth.

plz jail him too for being an ex force, rubbish

Op, Could you please put up the source.
Thanks

Lol the judge is not smiling.

He is not far from the truth.

MRSALT:
Op, Could you please put up the source.
Thanks

dey dey find source, you go still find sauce, ewu gambia

Civilised judge.

They have successfully dent Nigeria image abroad.

The Nigerian Embassy at Canada should help me give the Judge one bottle of Orijin while they debit my account with CBN

God bless judge Grammond.

psucc:
The Nigerian Embassy at Canada should help me give the Judge one bottle of Orijin while they debit my account with CBN

One more bottle for the judge from my side.

I know some sufferhead Nigerians are fuming

This is not a lie I commend the bravery judge.

DJ Switch right now....

Yeah, time for Igbos and their extended family members to like the crouch of a septuageneric white man.

What a shame.

As long as you keep behaving like a criminal organization times without number with proofs, you shouldn't be surprised at the outcome.

Engage in armed robbery, extortion, kidnapping, rape etc.

These people once kidnapped me on my way home took me on their vehicle and was demanding I bail myself or they would put me inside a cell for no reason. Is that not kidnapping?

Once arrested me for an offense that I didn't commit that was later clarified ok since it has been clarified let me go thru say if I no bail myself I never ready go house, is that not extortion?

Ok finally I got into an issue instead of me to clarify it via street with just squadron I say mk I go police, only to write case they said I should bring 10k.


Irresponsible criminal wicked organization

wretched Buhari's miscreants and pigs will not like this.
Nigeria is a criminal establishment that should be dismantled for the sake of humanity.

We have been saying it here but the foolish 30k zombie miscreants want us to keep quiet.

God bless the Canadian judge.

Nigerian police is a criminal organisation filled with lowlife bastards and thieves.

Nigerian Police force founded on April 1st...all fools day.

How can they escape being foolhardy. The worst cops in the world are found in Nigeria.

Send him back to Nigeria, he is a national threat to your country.

He can't help kill innocent Nigerian citizens and ran away just like that.

Hope Lai Mohammed is seeing this development? The policeman after causing so much human rights abuses and destroying lives now wants to flee to a sane country to live good life.

Racoon:
Hope Lai Mohammed is seeing this development? The policeman after causing so much human rights abuses and destroying lives now wants to flee to a sane country to live good life.

Sometimes shame should be a part of a part your lexicon. Akwuzu SARS in 2014 murdered many Igbo youths in Anambra who were suspected of being Biafra agitators. This one to many human right violations under your beloved PDP. It is under the current administration that SARS official are being prosecuted and have been disbanded.

This is not far from truths.

He is 100 percent right.