[Naijanet] OMENKA RAPED 18-YEAR OLD DETAINEE, TSAV INDICTS COOMASSIE
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indicts Coomassie for atrocities against Nigerians
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By Kayode Matthew & Ise-Oluwa Ige
LAGOS — IT was another day of stunning revelations at the Oputa panel’s
sitting yesterday with a witness alleging that the dreaded former head of
security group of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Col. Frank
Omenka raped and impregnated an 18-year-old detainee.
Alleged attempt by Omenka to abort the pregnancy, however, resulted in the
death of the lady — Bunmi Samuel.
The panel was also told yesterday by former Police Commissioner in Lagos
State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav that Inspector-General of Police in the Abacha
regime, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie should apologise to Nigerians for using ACP
Zakari Biu to perpetuate atrocities against innocent citizens.
Educationist and cousin of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof. Adebayo Mokuolu
told the commission that the late Bunmi Samuel was arrested in 1994 during
which she was allegedly abused by Omenka.
She was said to have died two weeks after she was hurriedly released from
detention.
Prof. Mokuolu who currently resides at the United States of America (USA) had
appeared briefly before the commission to give oral evidence to substantiate
his petition earlier forwarded to the secretary of the commission, entitled:
"My ordeals under late Gen. Sani Abacha and my family members’ between June
1994 and June 1998," dated July 21, 1999.
Prof. Mokuolu who is currently a member of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife
(OAU) Governing Council spoke of how his 13-year-old son (now in U.S.) John
Paul was arrested and detained for 31 days before the intervention of the
British government and how a non-member of his family, late Bunmi was arrested
in his residence, impregnated and wasted by Lt.-Col. Omenka among other human
rights abuses he and his family suffered.
He was led in evidence by his lawyer, Mrs. O. Babayeju.
His words: "My ordeals under late Gen. Abacha started in June 1994. I had gone
to President Olusegun Obasanjo Farm at Ota for a family meeting. But at his
gate, armed security men prevented me from entering. It took the intervention
of President Obasanjo (then General) before I could enter.
"But after the meeting, I was trailed to Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, somewhere
at Iyana Ipaja under the bridge where I was apprehended by two armed security
men at gun point. I pleaded with them to allow me phone my family which they
consented to. So, I told Gen. Obasanjo about the development who was about
travelling then and he advised that I should follow them to anywhere they took
me to.
"So I was whisked away to Eleweran Police Station and later taken to Onikan,
Lagos till about 2.00 a.m. I, alongside others arrested were being
interrogated and not allowed to sleep. I was with them for nine days.
"At another time, specifically December 15, armed policemen besieged my house
in Anthony Village, Lagos as early as 6.00 a.m. saying I was hoarding guns. I
was not around because I had travelled. Nevertheless, they entered forcefully,
searched my residence and arrested nine of my family members.
"Also in 1996, dangerous looking soldiers swooped on my compound seeking to
arrest me, one of them, a lady had posed as a journalist clutching a copy of
Weekend Concord with its lead story, "Obasanjo clocks 59 in custody." She was
asking me for an interview. It was later I knew she was to engage me in
talking till I would be arrested.
"But before this could be done, my son had come to tell me that our house had
been surrounded by soldiers and that one of them had remarked, we need him
dead or alive." I managed to escape.
"But because they could not get me, they arrested my family members, including
my cook and an 18-year-old girl, late Bunmi Samuel who was not even a member
of my family. Bunmi was detained and chained for a period of two months — she
died just two weeks after her so-called release.
"May her innocent soul rest in peace.
"My 13-year-old John Paul was also arrested and kept in military detention for
31 days and was later granted freedom through the intervention of the British
government. He is currently in U.S. and has vowed never to come to Nigeria
again.
"Out of annoyance, the army boys raided my compound, vandalised my property
including vehicles, stole my dresses, electronics, my wife’s jewelries, shoes,
video and a host of others.
All electrical fittings in my two buildings were removed and all the
inhabitants of the house forced out.
"Besides, they removed computers, IBM typewriters, musical instrument in the
buildings which were being used as school — Mokudu Secondary School, Lagos.
They also destroyed a number of science equipment, kept in the building.
"When the vandalisation, according to reports got to the head, I sent to the
principal of my college to remove important items yet to be removed by the
soldiers on the loot, but Lt.-Col. Omenka and Lt. Ashade ordered them to keep
off and in fact, the soldiers wrote "military zone, keep off, on the
buildings.
"For almost two years, my two property were left unprotected. For three years
I was in exile. Right now, I have no home, no vehicle to move around.
"I am asking for just N100 million to cover my losses during my period of
exile and bring all the culprits who were responsible for the violation of my
family’s human rights to book to serve as deterrent. The N100 million I asked
for is nothing in view of the skyrocketing prices of science equipment these
days.
"Prof. Mokuolu, however, separately told the commission how late Bunmi was
wasted away by Lt.-Col. Omenka.
His words: "There is an information the family of late Bunmi have been
concealing for some time. The late Bunmi before she died had told her parents
how she was raped by the military officer, Lt.-Col. Omenka and got
impregnated. The pregnancy was, however, terminated before she was hurriedly
let off their hook. Two weeks after, Bunmi died. May her soul rest in peace."
*Tsav indicts Coomassie
In his own testimony on the death in an explosion of the then head of security
at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja, Dr. Sola Omosola, Tsav said that
Zakari Biu was used to detain all perceived enemies of the government during
the regime by Alhaji Coomassie.
He also declared that the explosive allegedly found in the office of the late
Dr. Omosola, was indeed planted by the State Security Service (SSS) personnel
who claimed to have discovered the explosive device.
Tsav said: "After the incident which occurred on November 14, 1996, a team
comprising bomb experts searched the scene of the incidence and Dr. Omosola’s
office but no explosive device was discovered on this day.
"As a result of some names found in the diary of Mr. Nelson Kazeem who was
also killed along with Dr. Omosola, a number of arrests were made, including
Chief Olu Falae who were all detained and interrogated.
"I then asked the DIG Zone 2, Mr. Musa Abdulkadir who is also a lawyer to
investigate the matter. Mr. Abdulkadir in his report advised that the suspects
should be released as there was nothing to link them with the bomb blast.
"No one reported any case of torture against my men. Then 11 days after the
incident on November 25, 1996 at 5.00 p.m. the Military Administrator of Lagos
State, Col. Buba Marwa phoned me to ask if there was any new development on
the investigation of the bomb blast and I said no new development.
"The military administrator then handed over the phone to the Director of
State Security Service who was with him then to speak to me. The SSS director
then told me that an explosive device had actually been found in late
Omosola’s office. Then I quickly radioed Mr. Musa Abdulkadir who was the head
of the detectives investigating the bomb blast and he too expressed surprise.
Immediately I knew something was fishy.
"Why did the SSS go to Mr. Omosola’s office without the police and 11 days
after the incident claimed to have found a bomb in the office? The whole thing
was ridiculous to me. There was no finger print taken, no photograph of the
explosive and the SSS did not submit themselves for searching before
conducting the search. I then made a report to the Inspector-General of
Police.
"I believe the explosives were planted by the same SSS who found the
explosive.
"Later, two SSS personnel ,Mr. Amakiri and Mrs. Boma Isi came to me with a
prepared speech which I should read at a press conference. When I studied the
speech in which Prof. Wole Soyinka and Lt.-Gen. Alani Akinrinade were accused
of being responsible for the bomb blast, I requested that the SSS director
should supply me with evidence to put in the file.
"They reported me to Alhaji Coomassie that I was not cooperating and Alhaji
Coomassie directed that I should hold a joint press conference with Alhaji
M.D. Abubakar who was in charge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.
"At the press conference, Abubakar read the same report which the SSS had
earlier asked me to read and I refused, I then read my own speech but my own
was not given publicity.
"After the press conference, I told the newsmen that there we would not
entertain any questions because I knew in the course of answering questions,
newsmen would discover discrepancies and the police force would be
embarrassed.
"On December 4, 1996 when Alhaji Coomassie sent for me, I thought he would
rebuke Abubakar for reading the report prepared for him by the SSS but instead
rebuked me and asked me to withdraw my letter which I wrote to him.
"All of them were working for a common purpose. In view or my refusal to be
used against innocent citizens, all the cases of the bomb blast were withdrawn
from us and transferred to Force CID, Alagbon.
"Mr. Zakari Biu accused us of not co-operating with them and even accused Mr.
Abdulkadir of being a CIA agent. But when Abdulkadir reported to me, I assured
him he should not worry and that he had a bright future and would become the
Inspector-General of Police in future.
"It was Coomassie who hand-picked Zakari Biu, he nominated him for national
honours. Biu was reporting directly to the IG.
"The commission should invite Alhaji Coomassie to come and explain his roles
during this period. He should apologise to the nation. I am prepared to face
him any time anywhere.
"I appreciate the value of speaking the truth. Mr. Zakari Biu was merely being
used to detain all perceived enemies of the government. Biu never investigated
one single case to conclusion.
"I am a true Muslim, I fear God and I believe that one day I shall die. So
there is no need for me to lie.
"I do not care who is offended. I will speak the truth because I believe in
God. Anybody in this country who thinks I am not speaking the truth should
come here and contradict me.
"Everything I have said here is the truth and all those who came here sworn an
oath to the Bible and Quran and told lies, God Almighty will punish everyone.
"Power is temporary, there is no permanence in life. People should follow laws
and regulations. Yesterday, I was the CP with escort but today I am ordinary
Tsav. They wanted me to co-operate with them and do wrong things but I refused
because it was against my conscience."
Answering questions from the SSS counsel, Alhaji Tsav said "if the SSS
actually discovered the explosive as claimed, they should have arranged the
press conference themselves and should not come and use the police."
He also stated that the SSS was inefficient because the personnel who should
operate behind the scene were visible and carried out investigations
themselves. According to him, "they were supposed to feed the police with raw
information and hand over to the police to investigate cases. They should not
do it themselves."
Arewa Forum demands bail for Al-Mustapha, Bamaiyi, Abacha, others
By Leon Usigbe
KADUNA — THE Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is demanding bail for Mohammed
Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (rtd.), James Dambaba
and Col. Jubril Bala Yakubu (rtd.), all of whom are now standing trial for
their alleged roles in the murders of some pro-democracy activists.
The forum believes that the continued detention of the suspects is part of
Afenifere agenda allegedly being championed by the Attorney-General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige.
Acting General Secretary of ACF, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir in a statement in
Kaduna yesterday condemned the release on bail of the leader of the Oodua
Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun. Fasehun had been charged to
court in connection with murder and arson during the last violence in Lagos.
ACF blamed the release of Dr. Fasehun on an "Afenifere-guided judicial
system," saying "within a week, the Afenifere-guided judicial system which has
taken two years examining cases of attempted murder of four individuals
against Northerners who served this country creditably, leaders of the OPC
which has masterminded arson, mayhem and mass murder of Northerners are
discharged.
"ACF reiterates its concern with the flagrant dereliction of duty on the part
of the police to provide the Attorney-General of Lagos State with evidence
incriminating the OPC and its leader, Frederick Fasehun.
"The OPC did not operate by stealth and hence all information concerning its
operation is open.
"The failure of police to provide the necessary evidence required by the
Director of Public Prosecution is tantamount to travesty of justice.
"It is also a mark of insensitivity of the administration not only to the
plight of the families of those who lost their lives in the Lagos mayhem but
also the political situation in the country and our standing as a civilised
country in the world," it stated.
The ACF questioned the competence, integrity and impartiality of the
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Musiliu Smith and his assistants "who from
all indications have yet to discharge their responsibility in this matter.
"These are facts for those who choose to accuse the Inspector-General of
Police of executing an Afenifere agenda.
"Other key official who has been clearly associated with this project is Chief
Bola Ige, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who does not hide his
association with Afenifere.
"In this, he seems to be in league with other officers, otherwise, why should
Northerners such as Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, Police Commissioner James Dambaba,
Col. Jubril Bala Yakubu, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Mohammed Abacha be
refused bail on alleged attempted murder while the OPC chieftain goes on
boasting of his immunity from detention," it said.
Yar'Adua: Police begin probe of former CJ
By Eric Ugbor
EBONYI State Police Command has started investigating former Chief Judge of
Ebonyi State, Justice Edward Isuama, claim on alleged mystery surrounding the
death of the former Chief of General Staff, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.
General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua died at the Abakaliki prisons in 1997 while
serving prison terms for his alleged involvement in the 1996 phantom coup.
The three man police investigation team was instituted at the instance of a
memorandum stimulated by Ebonyi State Attorney General and Commissioner for
Justice, Chief Okeagu Ogadah urging the police to investigate various media
assertions made by the erstwhile Chief Judge in regards to his knowledge of
Yar’Adua’s killers.
In the memo with reference No HAG/EBS/S.011/1/x dated November 3, and
addressed to the state Police Commissioner, Chief Ogadah said "our attention
has been drawn to various newspaper publications credited to Justice Edward
Isuama, former Chief Judge of Ebonyi State which publications are contained in
a national newspaper with headlines captioned Yar’Adua: "Moves to sack Judge
fail" and another captioned "they are all liars...... I was removed because of
Yar’Adua killers trial- Ebonyi Chief Judge."
The Attorney General requested the police to "in the circumstances and in the
interest of public peace, order and morality and a deep sense of
responsibility, request you to investigate these dangerous allegations,
ascertain the causes and/or sources of these serious statements credited to
this high profile citizen of the state and the necessary steps under the law."
In the publications, the former CJ was quoted by two newspapers to have
alleged that his removal was in connection with his possession of vital
information which linked a former military administrator in the state to
Yar’Adua’s death.
The ex- CJ on another occasion was also reported to have claimed knowledge of
a senior official in then Ebonyi State Government who was said to have driven
the administrator to the prison where Yar’Adua was allegedly injected with
lethal drug.
Already the police investigative team had commenced work and may interrogate
the erstwhile CJ in his home town in Amudo in Afikpo North of the state as
well as reporters of the said newspapers which published the reports.
The state Commissioner for Police, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed who confirmed
Tuesday, the setting up the police investigative team added that "the team
will extract the said documents from the Attorney General and the papers and
will study the publications critically to know how best to carry out their
assignments."
Oputa panel: After many denials, whither reconciliation
EXCEPT Assistant Commissioner of Police (Rtd) ACP Alhaji Zakari Biu whose
name, like a recurring decimal, was mentioned by almost all petitioners that
filed complaints to Justice Chukwudifu Oputa-led Human Rights Violations
Investigation Commission (HVRIC), all other alleged torturers and human rights
violators who appeared before the Commission in Lagos in the last two weeks
had denied torturing any fellow human being for any reason.
>From the erstwhile Chief Security Officer to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Major
Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Commander of the Security Group in the DMI to
Colonel Kolawole Olu (rtd), arrow-head of the Special Investigation Panel that
investigated the 1995 phantom coup suspects, Major-Gen. Felix Mujakperuo to
the former National Security Adviser to the late Gen. Abacha, Alhaji Ismaila
Gwarzo, they all denied ever torturing or ordering any degrading treatment of
their fellow human beings.
In fact, all of them including former Lagos State Commissioner of Police Mr.
Sunday Aghedo whose name was mentioned by the national president of OPC, Dr.
Fredrick Fasehun as being instrumental to his detention and torture not only
denied such knowledge but also urged the Commission to dismiss all allegations
against them by the petitioners in entirety on grounds that they were
unfounded, baseless and sheer attempt to malign their persons.
But one of them, Alhaji Zakari Biu who headed the presidential task force on
terrorism which investigated all suspects arrested in connection with the 1995
alleged phantom coup and various bomb blasts and terrorism activities in the
country during the government of late Gen. Abacha, last Friday indirectly
owned up to torturing a female journalist and publisher of TSM Magazine, Mrs.
Chris Anyanwu and tendered an open apology.
Tendering the open apology to the amazement of the Commission members,
especially its chairman Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, journalists, victims of
human rights abuses present and interested members of the public who had come
to observe the proceedings, ACP Biu said, "I cannot remember slapping you
(Chris Anyanwu), plunging my fingers into your eyes but if at all I did, I am
very sorry. I apologise most sincerely."
The apology tendered by Alhaji Biu was amazing to all that heard him because
earlier he had told the Commission that all petitioners who mentioned his name
including Mrs. Anyanwu as one of their torturers had ganged up to malign him.
"They are all from the South-West. It could not be true that I did all these
atrocities I am being accused of. They all ganged up to destroy my person and
assassinate my character. I am not as bad as being portrayed," Zakari Biu had
protested on oath. But the Commission chairman Justice Oputa had reminded him
saying: "You know you also appeared before us in Abuja. Those in Abuja also
ganged up to mention your name?
"Chief Olu Falae appeared before us here and cleared you that you did not
torture him. But all others mentioned your name, yet you are still insisting
that they all ganged up against you.
"Our mandate is to heal the wounds of the past, to achieve reconciliation
based on the knowledge of truth and to bring harmony between human rights
violators and their victims based on the telling of truth".
In spite of this admonition, Biu did not either overtly or covertly own up to
either hiting, torturing or ordering the torturing of the petitioners.
Amazing was it therefore that after Mrs. Anyanwu stepped into the witness box
and recounted in an eloquent language, the graphic details of how she was
arrested for publishing a story on the 1995 phantom coup titled "Bloodbath
soon" and an opinion article titled "leave something for tomorrow", Zakari Biu
had tendered an apology to her.
The apology was in respect of how Biu slapped her. According to her, "when I
appeared before an investigating team headed by ACP Zakari Biu and I denied
knowing anything about the coup, he had said he had powers to make me do what
he wanted.
"As a preliminary, he slapped me and attempted to hit me in the eyes, which I
tried to prevent, in spite of the fact that my hands were in chains and my
legs manacled.
"For preventing him from hitting me, he slapped me again and plunged his
finger into my eyes and in fact that was the beginning of my eye problem which
still recurs till date," she had said.
Reacting to this accusation, Zakari Biu’s lawyer, one Emefene after
consultation with his client said he had no question for the petitioner but
urged the Commission to allow Biu to make an observation.
Biu was given the go-ahead by the Commission, a period during which he
indirectly owned up and tendered an apology for any inhuman treatment he might
have meted out to Mrs. Anyanwu.
They even hugged each other at the prompting of a member of the Commission,
Rev. Father Matthew Kukah as a sign of absolute for-giveness and
reconciliation.
But all others that appeared before the Commission for torturing fellow human
beings did not own up.
Major-Gen. Mujakperuo who was accused by virtually all the 1995 phantom coup
suspects of masterminding their torture and inhuman treatments while they were
being investigated by him said he was not privy to their torture.
"Except Col. Gwadabe whom I noticed to have been tortured very much, I am not
aware that any of them was tortured, neither did I instruct that they be
tortured.
"Although I did not ask any question in relation to how he (Gwadabe) was
brutalised, I could see he was in a bad shape and I was so much concerned
about his survival that a machine had to be brought by the Nigerian Army to
work on him before he came back to Iife," Mujakperuo had said.
But even when all that appeared before the Commission dismissed the 1995 coup
as phantom, Major Gen. Mujakperuo still affirmed to the Commission that the
coup was real, stressing that "based on the evidences before me, I had to
recommend President Olusegun Obasanjo and Major-Gen. Musa Yar’Adua for the
coup trial."
The reaffirmation by Gen. Mujakperuo not only stood as an opposition to
reconciling with all the 1995 coup suspects who had either appeared before the
Commission in Abuja or Lagos, his evidence courted him more enemies.
For instance, one Col. Ajayi who had extolled the virtues in Major-Gen.
Mujakperuo while recounting his sordid experience in the hands of his
torturers refused to greet the General when he was leaving the sitting venue
of the Commission.
Col. Ajayi had said: "This Major-General Mujakperuo used to be my role model
in the Nigerian army. We all know him to be a man of truth- In fact, when we
understood that he was to head the Special Investigation Panel that grilled us
to determine whether we were really involved in the phantom coup, almost all
of us jumped for joy. This was because we felt being a man of honour and truth
we would be let off the hook.
"But alas, Mujakperuo fell short of this our high expectation of him, teamed
up with our accusers and recommended all of us for trial on grounds that a
prima facie case had been established against us.
"But let us assume that he was afraid of losing his job then or that he was
afraid of being hit by the satanic late General Abacha, but now that he is no
longer under that prevailing circumstance, why has he chosen to tell a lie
again before this honourable Commission", he had fumed.
In fact, Col. Ajayi did not hide his feelings. When Major-General Mujakperuo
wanted to step out of the Commission venue, he had strutted forward to have a
hands-shake with Col. Ajayi, the latter rebuffed the army General, saying "I
don’t have any respect for you any longer. You are not a man of truth."
Mujakperuo who shamefacedly withdrew his already stretched hands, grinned and
jumped into a discussion with his counsel, Chief Thompson Onomigbo Okpoko
(SAN).
But in the case of Major Al-Mustapha, the overall commander of all security
outfits protecting the late Gen. Abacha, his family and the seat of
government, he had denied that he neither tortured any one nor killed anybody.
His evidences were given on oath. Said he: "The Strike Force being complained
of really existed. It worked under my command. We have about 72 able-bodied
men making up the force. Sergeant Barnabas Jabila (aka Rogers) was a member
but to my knowledge, the Strike Force never killed anyone as the public had
been made to believe."
Even in his reply to a petition filed by former Attorney General of the
federation, Dr. Olusoga Onagoruwa, Al-Mustapha had claimed in a breath that he
never tortured anybody.
But in another breath, while defending himself of an accusation by Apostle
Turner Ochuko Ogboru that Mustapha ordered his "boys" to beat him up, tortured
him before ordering him to be kept in detention, Al-Mustapha admitted that he
only allowed Ogboru to be beaten once.
Said he: "Do you know why I allowed you to be beaten up by those soldiers you
were complaining of..., well, it was because I do not want to be accused of
taking sides with the coupists because immediately those men heard you were
Ogboru, they were literally ready to eat you raw.
"But just be thankful to your Lord Almighty that you were not killed. Those
who were charged with similar offences as yours had gone. They only did not
kill you for a reason" he added.
But Major Al-Mustapha had occasionally digressed from the questions being
asked him to lecture his listeners, including the Commission, on the political
history of Nigeria or at times attack some generals in the army as being
responsible for the mess the country is in today.
He had even declared that if he were allowed to talk, he would expose all the
mysteries surrounding various killings in the country, including how Chief MKO
Abiola was killed in detention.
But suddenly, Major Al-Mustapha paused and asked a rhetorical question: "If
you want me to talk, to expose all, how much security can this Commission
provide for me.
"Ever since I have been threatening to expose a number of mysteries Nigerians
are contending with, I know that a number of generals in the Nigerian Army and
some civilians are becoming uneasy. This is because of the roles they played
in some of the major happenings. Anyway, I reserve all other things till
November 27, this year," he had said.
At this juncture, tension had mounted. Major-Al-Mustapha’s listeners wanted
him to talk but Dr. Olu Onagoruwa’s lawyer was trying to guide him.
Suddenly again, he had attacked the Lagos lawyer, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite saying
"you wanted me to ask you a question? What you all hear next may sound
embarrassing to you even though I do not have such an intention".
The threat to hit Dr. Braithwaite hard had come on the heels of a disclosure
that the lawyer’s party which was registered by the late Gen. Abacha’s
administration did not meet the requirements set for party registration at
that time.
He had added: "Besides, your party was discovered collecting money from
illegal sources. Your party was registered just for balancing sake.
"And we all know when you were arrested by Gen. Babangida and kept in
detention, you said you were on hunger strike. Newspapers carried the report.
But we were bringing in food for your consumption and we were taking out empty
plates only to say that oga’s food was consumed by rats and rabbits when in
fact there were no rabbits or rats anywhere. We knew what happened to the
food.
"By and large, a lot had happened. But it is unfortunate that the elephants
that eat the whole of the wood in the forest has turned round to accuse a
mosquito of being responsible for the eating." He added that persons behind
some major events which are mysteries to Nigerians today are currently
becoming uneasy.
The National Security Adviser to the late Head of State, Alhaji Ismaila
Gwarzo, when he appeared before the Commission although explained himself in a
husky voice, he nevertheless owned up to all allegations made against him.
Even the State Security Service which was mentioned severally defended itself
by its lawyer, one Gabriel Igbinovia that it only kept suspects brought to it
and never tortured anyone.
But the Commission chairman, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa had said "for any
progress to be made, for any meaningful reconciliation to be achieved, all
those that were involved in the abuse of human rights covered by the time
frame of the Commission should tell the truth so that reconciliation of both
parties those whose rights were violated and those who violated their rights
can be achieved.
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