Donald Andoor
10 November 2004
Port Harcourt — A member of the dissolved Justice Chuk-wudifu Oputa Com-mission on Human Rights Abuses, Reverend Father Hassan Matthew Kukah, yesterday asked government to release the commission's report to prove government's sincerity to correcting the wrongs in the country.
Kukah, former Secretary-General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, in a paper entitled, "the weakness of power: Contesting Justice in a Post Authoritarian state," in Port Harcourt, to commemorate the ninth year remembrance of the hanging of Ogoni activists, including Ken Saro Wiwa said, "I use this opportunity to appeal to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to release the Oputa report as a test of its sincerity."
Insisting that "nothing stops the government from releasing the report to the Nigerian public as a moral obligation," he argued that "Releasing the report would not have and cannot solve our problems, it will not put bread on the table, but it would have helped to establish confidence that the government is sincere about seeking a way out of the problems of Nigeria."
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