Remember I tweeted early October that attempts would be made to challenge the legality of the Judicial Panels of Inquiry and smack on it, @policeng and its lawyers are doing that.
Should folks be worried?

Please, don't be worried because established case laws are already against the Police. The argument that only the FGN can set up Judicial Panels of Inquiry into SARS/Police brutality is only true, to the extent that it relates to Abuja & FCT. Nowhere else.

The powers to constitute judicial panels of inquiry, which the governors legally exercised, fall within the residual list of the Constitution- and only the states can exercise powers under the Residual List.

FGN has no powers overs matters in the residual list- See AG Fed v AG Lagos (2010).
The question of whether the FGN can set up Judicial Panel of Inquiry within the purview of the Tribunal of Inquiry Act 2004 was long settled by the Supreme Court in Fawehinmi v Babaginda

For me it makes no difference that the Judicial Panels of states are inquiring into SARS or police brutality. The fact is that the inquiries are into the actions of police officers in states and not how @policeng is "organised abd administered" under S.214(2)(a) CFRN 1999