The Battle Line Is Drawn (NHRC HOLDS EMERGENCY MEETING OVER OBJ'S LETTER)
LAGOS—With the polity still rumbling over the exchange of letters between President Goodluck Jonathan and his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, will meet next week. The meeting is to consider the request by the Federal Government for it to investigate the allegation by Obasanjo that President Jonathan was training snipers and had placed 1000 political opponents on his watch list.
Vanguard gathered that the commission’s extra-ordinary meeting of its Governing Council, slated for January 15, will discuss modalities and parameters under which to proceed with President Jonathan’s request.
The Federal Government through the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, had on December 23, last year, asked the NHRC to probe former President Obasanjo’s letter.
Adoke had said: “May I draw your attention to the above and the attached State House memorandum