According to Amnesty International: "Goni Ali was arrested by members of the JTF at his home in Maiduguri with three others on 16 October 2011. They were taken to Giwa barracks, 21 Army Brigade. Two of the men arrested with him were released the following day and the third was released four days later. Goni Ali’s family has not heard any information about him since. In July 2012 they told Amnesty International, “Whenever I go I ask about my brother I don’t get any response from the JTF; sometimes they say they don’t know him.” Following a court hearing on 4 January 2012 into the disappearance of Goni Ali, at which the JTF failed to appear, the judge commented in his ruling: “All parties have been served... None of them have the courtesy to even write or sent a representative to state why they do not avail in court. Military or paramilitary like all other indigent individuals are subject to the Constitution of Nigeria which is sacrosanct. Nobody can claim monopoly of force or coercion except legitimately. In a situation where people who are the custodians of the law defy constituted authorities what would then happen to poor, unprivileged persons? It is barbaric, uncalled for and against all civilized standards. We cannot sanitise a society where those custodians defied all standards of civility with contempt. I really cannot know where we are heading to. It is high time we changed our barbaric behaviour.”" ^[+]