Delta Army Massacre: Legal Right Group Ask National Assembly To Set Up Independent Inquiry
Center for Law and Civil Culture, CLCC has called on the National Assembly to establish an independent inquiry into the killing of 17 officers and soldiers in Delta State on March 14.
It requested the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) investigate the incident to prevent a recurrence.
According to the centre’s executive secretary and deputy legal advisor, Abdul Imran and Oyinkansola Chukwu, the police should conduct the investigation.
CCLC noted that the Army can’t conduct an objective investigation into the killings.
The centre urged the Army to exercise caution and ensure innocent people are not punished for an offence they knew nothing about.
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It said the Delta State governor, police, other security agencies, and the press should be given access to the troubled community.
Describing the killings as “cruel and barbaric”, CLCC commiserated with the Army and the bereaved families.
A total of 17 military personnel, including four officers and 13 soldiers, were murdered in the Okuama community during the mission. The military has been combing the creeks in the community and other areas in search of the perpetrators of the crime.
Different media houses have also narrated how the community, in a reappraisal attack by men of the Nigerian Army, several houses were burnt and innocent women and children tragically murdered, all in the name of searching for the culprits.
