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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