While responding to the highly publicized re-arrest and repatriation of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the group noted that many respected national leaders have called for a national dialogue to stave off the prospects of Nigeria becoming a failed state, and urged the Federal Government to key into such initiative, rather than “a seeming predilection to the jackboot strategy” which it said has only yielded more sweat, blood and tears for the nation.
Browsing: Dr Uju Agomoh
Agomoh said this while reflecting the on International Human Rights Day celebration, with the theme: “Recover Better, Stand up for Human Rights.”
Inaugurating the panel, the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony Ojukwu named retired Justice Suleiman Galadima as chairman, Abdulrahaman Yakubu representing NHRC, representatives of civil society, Dr Lydia Umar and Dr Uju Agomoh.
The Executive Director of the group, Dr Uju Agomoh, made the call in a statement supported by the Nigerian Prisons Service as part of the Prison Reform Project at the House of Representatives Retreat on the Review of the Nigeria Prisons Act on Tuesday in Enugu.