National Human Rights Commission, says it is stepping up collaboration with the Nigeria Police in twenty-seventeen to ensure the protection, promotion and enforcement of the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.

The collaboration with the police is imperative since the police is the first respondent to victims of human rights violations.

Its Chief Press Officer, Fatima Mohammed, says the fight against human rights violations will be more practical, saying the police authorities have assured that whenever individuals take cases of human rights violations to them, they would immediately take action.

Mohammed said they had also assured that whenever there was an institution take an issue to them, they would give it more urgency, saying the new collaboration was a step higher than what was obtainable.

She said the collaboration with the police was imperative since the police was the first respondent to victims of human rights violations, saying the Acting Chairman of the commission, Oti Ovrawah, had earlier assured Nigerians that the work of the commission would speak for it in 2017.

Mohammed said this was because new, practicable and achievable dynamics would be introduced to effectively tackle cases of human rights violations in the country, saying no case of rights violation had been lodged at the commission so far, but the commission was working to clear the backlog of cases.