President Muhammadu Buhari has assured international and local human rights groups of appropriate response over the report of the judicial inquiry into the clashes between soldiers and members of the Shiite movement in Nigeria led by Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The Senior Special
Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu,
in a statement, quoted Buhari as saying this Tuesday.
He said the president was studying the details of the report before announcing appropriate response in due course.
According to Shehu,
the president's commitment to human rights remains unchanged because it
is a cardinal component of the democratic order.
He said the present
administration believed in due process and the rule of law. "Therefore
any response to the report would follow this principle."
The presidential
aide said the Federal Government would continue to act in the larger
interest of the public to prevent such violent incidents.
He stated: "It
would be recalled that when the clashes occurred in December, President
Buhari had told the nation during the Presidential Media Chat that he
was awaiting the outcome of the report of inquiry into the incident
before making appropriate response."
source: dailytrust
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