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The Nigerian Senate, on Wednesday, embarked on an investigation into a recent report by Amnesty International accusing soldiers deployed to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps of molestation and rape of women living in the camps.
The Senate also resolved to set up to committee ad-hoc committee to look into the report members are Senators Babajide Omoworare (APC, Osun), Abubakar Kyari (APC, Borno), Jeremiah Useni (PDP, Plateau), Binta Masi Garba (APC, Adamawa), Stella Oduah (PDP, Anambra), Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP, Bayelsa) and Senator David Umaru (APC, Niger) as the Chairman.
Senate decision was sequel to a point of order raised by Senator Shehu Sani who expressed dissatisfaction with the response of Federal government on the allegations .
He stated that the report included details and empirical elements of torture, rape and starvation of these women.
Senator Sani stressed that the report is not “by one opposition or partisan group; it is a report taken very seriously by international organisations especially United Nations.”
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He urged that the parliament has a “twin obligation to prosecute the war on terror but in every possible way protect and defend the fundamental rights of Nigerians.”
In his contributions , the Deputy Senate leader, Bala Na Allah cautioned the Senate on the report of the Amnesty International
According to him, the nature and character of what we have in the country makes it almost practically impossible not to have the kind of report that the AI is reporting about Nigeria. We must understand that we are not fighting with a defined enemy.
