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Chief of Defence Workers, Gen. Fortunate Irabor
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee Fee will examine the report that the Nigerian Military has been operating a secret abortion programme since no less than 2013 for which about 10,000 pregnancies have been aborted, its Govt Secretary, Tony Ojukwu (SAN) stated on Tuesday.
Already, the fee stated it will Tuesday, February 7 2023, inaugurate a Particular Impartial Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations within the Implementation of Counter Insurgency Operations within the North-East.
Ojukwu in a press release issued by the Deputy Director (Public Affairs and Exterior Linkages), Fatimah Agwai Mohammed, said that the panel will amongst different issues “concentrate on investigating the Reuters report which alleged that the Nigerian navy was concerned in abortion of many pregnancies within the North-East within the final 10 years.”
Members of the panel are retired Justice of the Supreme Courtroom, Justice Abdu Aboki, (Chairman); Ms Kemi Okonyedo (representing ladies rights organisations); Azubuike Nwankenta (representing the Nigerian Bar Affiliation); a navy regulation and intelligence skilled, Main-Common Letam Wiwa (retd.);
Marketing consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Modibbo Adama College Educating Hospital, Yola, Dr Maisaratu Bakari; humanitarian skilled (representing civil society), Dr. Fatima Akilu and psychologist (representing youths), Ms Halima Nuradeen.
The PUNCH reported that the Chief of Defence Workers, Common Fortunate Irabor, had on on Friday, December 17 2023, throughout a go to to the fee demanded an investigation into the Reuters report.
Additionally, a coalition of over 228 ladies’s rights organisations underneath the aegis of Womanifesto, had requested an investigation of the reported pressured abortion of no less than 10,000 pregnancies amongst rescued ladies and women, though the navy had denied it.
The convener of Womanifesto and Govt Director of Girls Advocates Analysis and Documentation Centre, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, made the demand in a press release issued in Abuja, with a name on the Federal Authorities to institute a panel of inquiry.
