Weekly Trust - Saturday, 02 July 2011
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Kaduna State governor, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to investigate the riots that trailed the presidential election in the state, on Thursday commenced proper sitting using identify and go system. Unlike the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu panel’s public hearing where victims of the post-election violence were given some minutes to narrate their stories, at the commission’s sitting on Thursday victims were only asked to identify their memorandum and pray for its adoption by the chairman as their testimony.
Authors of memorandum were called one after the other by the commission’s secretary Mr. Mr. John Waje Bagu to the podium to take oath, identify the memorandum and sought for it adoption. Over 40 memoranda were attended to during the sitting yesterday. Earlier before the commencement of the sitting, counsel to the commission, Barrister M. I. Ali explained to the victims on the modus operandi of the commission.
It would be recalled that the chairman of the commission, Justice Muhammadu Lawal Bello during the inaugural sitting of the commission said they are not constituted to prosecute or carry out full criminal trial of anybody but that they are on fact-finding mission
Story by: Ismail Mudashir, Kaduna
Edited by: Kabeer M. Adamu for NYNA Blog
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