The National Human Rights Commission has started investigating the killing of a 20-year-old undergraduate of University of Jos, Rinji Bala, with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book.
Bala, a 300-Level History and International Studies student in the university was reportedly shot by a soldier under the Nigeria Army’s Operation Safe Havens, after he was arrested in his neighbourhood in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, on May 12.
The NHRC, in a statement by its Director Corporate Affairs and External Linkages, Lambert Oparah, on Sunday, said it “condemned in strong terms the recent gruesome killing of a young University of Jos undergraduate, Rinji Peter Bala, allegedly by security operatives along Zaria Road, Jos, Plateau State.”
Ojukwu was said to have “directed the Jos office of the commission “to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of the young man with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book.” It also quoted the NHRC boss as saying the investigation into the killing “is in line with the commission’s mandate of monitoring and investigating all alleged cases of human rights violations in the country and seek appropriate redress and remedies for victims.”
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