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The proposed National Human Rights Commission Repeal and Re-enactment bill, 2020 may have run into stormy waters as stakeholders on Monday at a public hearing differed.
The Nigerian Army which has always been at the crossfire of human rights abuse and other security agencies picked holes from some of the provisions of the proposed bill.
This was as the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Mr Anthony Ojukwu, a Professor of law, Ademola Popoola and others, sought Judicial Power for the Commission.
Monday’s public hearing lacked convergence of ideas from the entire stakeholders who participated in the discussion.
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The Nigerian Army, Ministry of Justice and the Human Right Commission, on Monday, expressed divergent opinions on certain provisions of the proposed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2020.
The occasion was the one-day public hearing held by the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters held at the National Assembly.
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Atttahiru, who was represented by the Director of Legal Services, Brigadier General MU Wambai, rejected certain provisions of the Bill which excluded the Army, Navy, Airforce, Police and Department of State Services from the Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission.