Skip to main content

IDP: Senate to investigate sexual abuse, violence allegations

Senate President Bukola Saraki promises to reply the police in 48 hours over the robberies in Offa, Kwara State

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Thursday expressed the senate’s readiness to investigate all allegations related to sexual abuses and violence in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) camps nationwide.
Saraki made this known while receiving the Amnesty International (AI) 2017/18 Report in Abuja.
The report is on the state of the world’s human rights and women who survived Boko Haram but later maltreated.
He said that a committee had been set up in that regard, adding that the country, being an important part of the comity of nations, must continue to lead by example by doing the right things.
“To get it right, we must be able to accept where these issues exist and work with partners like you to be able to establish the facts.
“We have already set up a panel on your IDP report. By doing this, we can establish where sanctions need to be meted out.
“You have our assurance that nothing will be covered-up. Not just for the purpose of disciplining people, but preventing re-occurrence.
“By doing this, we can help to ensure that people change in their approach.
“Our people are already going through a lot of hardship in the IDP camps, they do not need this,’’ Saraki was quoted as saying by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola.
He said it was important to act on behalf of the victims of abuse.
Saraki expressed determination in ensuring that the committee set up to carry out the investigation worked closely with amnesty international.
He said essence of the investigation was to ensure that the administration of justice was achieved.
Earlier, the Country Director of AI, Mrs Osai Ojigho, said that the visit was to commend the senate for setting up a panel to investigate the allegations documented in the report.
“We think it is a good sign of progress and a willingness to find out the truth regarding the incidents that have been happening.
“We hope that it will bring recourse to the women victims and their families in their quest to seek justice.
“We also want to commend the work of the National Assembly in passing and reforming our laws, particularly the Anti-Torture Law that was signed by the President in December.
“We believe that this would go a long way in addressing the issue of torture, particularly by our security forces in Nigeria,” she said.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

AS NIGERIA CRUMBLES, NO UNITY IN DIVERSITY

  In recent times, I have sat down to observe the Horrors going on in Nigeria. I have engaged people in discussion to get their views and in a deep reflection, all i can see is complete disdain, failure and frustration because every sector has crumbled to irredeemable state. Today, i am not writing as a Biafran like I use to, but as an African, who imagines rapid development across the continent of Africa IF Biafra is restored tomorrow. I am just looking at the versed human and technological resources in Biafra Land and how the continent will flood BIAFRA for different businesses. Nigeria must accept the fact that the major root to our problems is DIVERSITY IN CULTURE AND BELIEFS. This is why we have never been United from inception. No Nation with different cultures and beliefs ever succeeded. Some questions you may ask... Can America and Pakistan exist as a Nation considering the fact that they are people with different value system? NIGERIA was created forcefully by a white m...
Post a Comment
Read more

BISHOP OYEDEPO ADDRESSES ISSUE OF LIVING FAITH RURAL CHURCHES LOW INCOME

  NONSENSE ! OUR ONLY CRITERIA IS HOW MANY SOULS WON AND NOT HOW MUCH INCOME. WHEN WE EMPLOYED 7000 PASTORS AT ONCE SOCIAL MEDIA WAS DEAD. WE HAVE MORE EMPLOYEES THAN MOST STATES IN NIGERIA AND WE HAVE NEVER OWED THEM OR TAKEN BANK OVERDRAFT ONCE. THE PASTORS WERE ASKED TO GO BECAUSE THEY WERE UNFRUITFUL. MANY OF THE CHURCHES BUILT CAN NEVER PAY FOR THE CHURCH BUILDING IN 30 YEARS. WE HAVE NO PATIENCE WITH FAILURE HERE. -Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP *We have built more than 1,000 Churches in rural areas where in the next 30 years, they can never generate such fund, with each costing more than 14 Million Naira. *We are hunting after souls, not income. People are confused about our Ministry. I learnt some fellows said, “you know, they are not bringing income, that is why they asked them to go.” We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here. When we employed 7,000 people at a time, Social Media was...
Post a Comment
Read more

5 Final Thoughts on Abba Kyari and Hushpuppi

  1. As with everything Nigerian, the Abba Kyari/Hushpuppi fraud case has taken on a predictably ethnoreligious hue. I’ve read some people claim that Kyari is being targeted by America because he is a Muslim. Ha! Well, Hushpuppi is also a Muslim. His full name is Ramon Olorunwa Abbas. Most Muslims will recognize Abbas as a Muslim name but probably not Ramon. Ramon is the Yoruba Muslim domestication of Abdulrahman. Read my July 13, 2014 column titled “Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names” to understand how Abdulrahman became Ramon (which is also sometimes rendered as Ramonu or Raymond). The name is #7 on my list. Kyari’s replacement, announced earlier today, is a Tunji Disu, another Muslim. Disu is the Yoruba Muslim domestication of Idris. That name is #3 on my list. Most importantly, though, the man Hushpuppi defrauded of over $1 million— with Kyari’s help— is an Arab Muslim. So, the idea that Kyari is being hounded because he’s a Muslim is silly. 2. Some people ...
Post a Comment
Read more