OPUTA PANEL REPORT: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INVESTIGATION COMMISSION REPORT

PRESS RELEASE:  Oputa Panel Report

 Justice Chukwudifu Oputa 

The inquiry --was  modelled on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission but it had no  power to sentence.

1. Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations 

2. Volume One

3. Volume Two

4. Volume Three

5. Volume Four

6. Volume Five

7. Volume Six

8. Volume Seven

9. Volume Eight

10. Volume Nine
    
    
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    Oputa Panel Human Rights Commission opens in Abuja, the criteria for selecting the cases to be probed, shrouded in secrecy. 
    
    Commission  investigated human rights abuses in Nigeria over the past thirty-five years situated capital, Abuja. 
    
    The head of the panel was a  retired judge, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa and  had received ten-thousand petitions alleging abuses from members of the public. 
    
    However, he said then that  the commission would concentrate on only the two-hundred cases which appeared to involve gross abuses of human rights.  People were  invited to answer charges against them, and witnesses  called , but many did not appear like IBB. 
    
    The inquiry -- was  modelled on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission but had no  no power to sentence, just to determine responsibility.