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.
