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Tortured Students: NHRC Issues Fresh Invitation to Madonnna University's VC, Others

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday in Abuja said it would prosecute the Vice Chancellor (VC) of Madonna University and two other senior officials of the school in relation to a case where some of the university's students were  tortured on suspicion of being members of cult groups.
NHRC's Executive Secretary, Professor Bem Angwe said  that his commission would be compelled to prosecute the school's officials should they fail to honour a fresh invitation to them to appear before the commission.

The commission had, on August 10 invited the school's officials and authorities of the Nigerian Army over two separate incidents of torture.

While the Army authorities were invited over the inhuman treatment meted out to a civilian in Nyanaya, Abuja recently by a soldier, and requested that the culprit be identified, the university officials were invited over the torture of two students, Stanley Okoye, a 23-year old final year Civil Engineering student and Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord.

Angwe, who spoke in Abuja after receiving a team from the Nigerian Army, said the Vice Chancellor of the Madonna University had refused to appear on the excuse that the matter was in court, and that the commission should allow the court to handle it.

He said, though the commission had issued the VC and his officials fresh invitation to appear on August 25, the commission believed the university authorities were acting without sufficient appreciation of the powers of the commission by thinking they could ignore its invitation.

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