I’m satisfied establishing public complaints commission – Obasanjo

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said he always feel a sense of satisfaction for establishing the Federal Public Complaints Commission (FPCC) when he was a military Head of State.

The ex-president said the satisfaction comes each time he hears over the radio, the less privileged people coming out to say how the commission had brought “justice and relief” to them over matters brought before it.

Obasanjo spoke Abeokuta, Ogun State, when the Commissioner, Federal Public Complaints Commission in the state, Mrs. Oluyemisi Somorin-Dawodu, visited him at his home on the Presidential Hilltop Estate.

The FPCC which has since mutated into the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) was established by Decree 31 of 1975 put in place by the then Supreme Military Council headed by Obasanjo.

He noted that the commission was put in place to create an avenue where the defenseless, weak and ordinary people in the society could run to for justice.

He said: As I listen to radio and hear the less privileged talk about the relief and justice they got through the assistance of the commission, then I have no regrets ever establishing the body.

“Although I cannot say that the need we saw then has completely disappeared, but there have been testimonies of cases where the commission has come to the rescue of the helpless.”

He said the commission still remain relevant in the country because the reasons that gave birth to its existence have not disappeared four decades after it was established.

(The Nation)