(NHRC), Chidi Anselem Odinkalu, on Friday, charged President Goodluck
Jonathan and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, to stop their supporters from the
killing of innocent Nigerians and policemen ahead of the general
elections in the country.
According to Odinkalu, more than 28 policemen were killed by suspected
political thugs in February alone.
He said this in Abuja when the Ekiti State government and the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the state were at that NHRC to drop their
response to the allegations by the Ekiti State chapter of the APC that
Governor Ayo Fayose was sponsoring the killings of opposition members
in the state. Odinkalu said that the commission would look into the
petitions dispassionately.
"We are happy that you have chosen to come to respond to the
allegations against Mr. Ayodele Fayose. Upon the receipt of the
petition, we dispatched an invitation to the governor and the PDP
chairman in Ekiti State," the Executive Secretary of the commission,
Professor Bem Angwe said as he received the response.
"On the receipt of that petition, we said the commission would invoke
its powers to ensure that justice is done and that whoever is found
guilty of these abuses irrespective of his/her position, would be made
to face justice as there is no immunity when it comes to the abuse of
the rights of Nigerians. We would invoke our powers and involve
international human rights bodies to ensure that justice is done," he
said.
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