By Tope Musowo
Lagos
An investigation panel set up by Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, to review compliance of the Armed Forces with Human Rights Obligations and Rules of Engagement, yesterday, called on Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and other counsels representing Boko Haram suspects to come forward and present their cases before the panel.
Chairman of the nine-man panel, Hon Justice Biobel Abraham Georgewill, made the call on the second day of the tribunal hearing holding in Lagos. Calling on Falana and other counsels to come forward with their allegations of human rights abuses, Georgwill said it was imperative that people in Southwest with allegations against the Armed Forces appear before the panel.
He also called on interested parties to join the panel members to a one day fact-finding mission to Kirikiri Maximum Prisons where many Boko Haram suspects are being held. At Tuesday’s proceedings, the panel also heard how a Sergeant with the Nigerian Army killed an Okada rider by viciously kicking him in the stomach. While being led in evidence by a representative of the National Human Rights Commission, the brother of the deceased, Salihu Mohammad recounted that his brother Abubakar Alhaji died a day after he was brutalized by one Sergeant Taiwo Owoeye of the Nigerian Army
