A police unit established to combat kidnapping and armed robbery in Imo State has instead become a hub of alleged extrajudicial executions, torture and systematic extortion, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. The unit, popularly known as “Tiger Base,” as stated in the report operates under the Imo State Police Command in Owerri. According to the report, titled “Tiger Base of Atrocities: Human Rights Violations by Nigeria Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit Owerri,” detainees are routinely held in inhuman conditions, coerced into making confessions and, in some cases, shot or forcibly disappeared. Amnesty International Nigeria Director, Isa Sanusi, in the report issued by its Social Media and Communications Officer, Michael Christian, said the unit had become notorious...