36 state counterparts

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has revealed that it has given the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and its 36 state counterparts sufficient materials to prosecute 33 operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad indicted in last year’s report of a Presidential Investigative Panel.

This was made known by the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Mr Tony Ojukwu while fielding questions from journalists at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja. This is a counter to the statement by the Attorney General’s office who in a report published around Nov. 8 declared that there was no sufficient …