National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has launched a probe into last Friday’s gun duel in Abuja between security agents and suspected members of the outlawed Boko Haram terrorist group. Some seven persons were said to have been killed during a raid by a combined team of soldiers and State Security Service (SSS) operatives on an uncompleted building in Abuja believed to have been inhabited by suspected terrorists.
However, official account on the raid in which no fewer than 12 persons were arrested and scores of others injured, has stirred controversy as some of the victims claimed they were not Boko Haram members but illegal occupants of the building.
The security agencies had claimed that they carried out the raid to recover hidden weapons but were shot at shortly after they began digging up the weapons.
They had said those killed were Boko Haram insurgents plotting an attack on Abuja.
However, a report yesterday by an online news medium, Premium Times, alleged moves by the military and the SSS to cover up the extra-judicial killing in Abuja by planting arms in the building to justify the official claim that it was a Boko Haram’s ammunition dump.
As part of the NHRC investigation into the controversial incident, one of its assistant directors, Dahiru Bobbo, is leading officials to interview witnesses and residents of the area as citizens, overwhelmed by the ordeals of the survivors, are now asking the security agencies to come clean about what “truly transpired” at the scene of the attack.
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