Nigeria: Human Rights Violations Gone With the Wind

16 October 2002
analysis

Lagos — Fifteen years of military rule before 1999 showed little respect for the rights of Nigerians. But the advent of democracy in that year brought expectations that things would improve. After three years, Funso Abdullahi and Agha Ibiam write on progress made on this front

When democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, the Federal Government deemed it necessary to establish the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC), which became widely known as Oputa panel, to investigate all cases of human rights abuses and violations that occured between January 1966 and May 28, 1999.

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