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All about the Oputa Panel (HRVIC)
Why the Oputa Panel Report recommendations have not been implemented Lawyer Falana Gives Legal Support to Oputa Panel [December 21, 2005] The Full HRVIC Report in 10 PDF Files [Total Size: 24.58 MB] NDM Press Release: Full Version of Oputa Panel Report [January 1, 2005] In solidarity with the Civil Society Forum (CSF) in Nigeria, the Nigerian Democratic Movement (NDM), a Washington-based pro-democracy organization since 1993, hereby releases unofficially the full Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC), popularly called the “Oputa Panel Report”, as ten Portable Document Format (PDF) files...... Summary recommendations [ Size= 612 Kb] Volume One - Chairman's Introduction, Origins of the Commission, etc. [461 KB] Volume Two - International Context [486 KB] Volume Three - Research Reports [1,021 KB] Volume Four - Case-by-Case Records of Public Hearings [1.3 MB] Volume Five - Briefs on Petition Memos [1.2 MB] Volume Six - Reparation, Restitution and Compensation [6.0 MB] Volume Seven - Summary Conclusions and Recommendations [8.2 MB] Appendix: List of Witnesses [1.4 MB] Appendix: List of Exhibits [3.9 MB]  Download Adobe Reader from Here [15.9 MB]To create a Compact Disc (CD) of the Oputa Panel Report, download the above 12 files (NDM Release + 10 Oputa Files + Adobe Reader); Total size of files on CD will be about 80 MB. Post-Release Media Commentaries - after January 1, 2005 With Oputa Report, No Need for National Dialogue Father George Ehusani [Sunday Punch; February 13, 2005] The Oputa public sitting was some national dialogue. It was a major national dialogue that had brought some recommendations. If you read, in detail, you will discover that, perhaps, if we take that panel report seriously, we do not need to set up another dialogue, because it is either we have a full Sovereign National Conference or we stay with this kind of report and look at what it is saying..... Reopen deaths of MKO, Kudirat, Dele Giwa, others; CSF releases Oputa panel’s report [Punch, January 2, 2005] Pre-Release Media Commentaries - before January 1, 2005
Oputa Panel Report: Matters Arising Suits against the HRVIC/Federal Government NIGERIA: Babangida in court to stop editor's murder probe [IRIN News, June 19, 2002] A legal battle began on Tuesday between former Nigerian military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, and the government over a probe into an unsolved 16-year-old murder of a prominent journalist Dele Giwa, which occurred during Babangida's reign. Nigeria’s Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) in its report to President Olusegun Obasanjo last month recommended the prosecution of Babangida and two former intelligence chiefs for the murder of Giwa by parcel bomb in his Lagos home on 19 October 1986... IBB Battles Oputa Panel Newswatch [December 1, 2002] Many Nigerians who rushed to the Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako recently to listen to arguments from lawyers hired by former military president Ibrahim Babagida to stop implementation of the report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, HRVIC, presided over by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa went home disappointed. The matter was not heard... IBB Vs. Oputa Panel: Supreme Court Rules January 31 [This Day (Lagos); November 1, 2002] Oputa Panel: IBB Gets Court Leave [This Day (Lagos); October 30, 2002] IBB vs. Govt.: Court Adjourns Suit to October 22 {Daily Trust, July 22, 2002] A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday, adjourned to October 22, the suit instituted by the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, against the Federal Government. Babangida and his ex-security chiefs, Brig. General Halilu Akilu, and Col. Kunle Togun, had gone to court to prevent the government from implementing the reports of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC)..... The Oputa Witch-Hunt Mohammed Haruna [Daily Trust, June 19, 2002] 'Yoruba Has Persecuted the Yoruba' Afenifere at Oputa Panel No regrets for the Asaba massacre of Igbo - Haruna [Vanguard, October 10, 2001] Igbos Demand Eight Billion Dollar Compensation [The Guardian (Lagos), July 26, 2001] Rights Panel Meet [UN IRIN, April 20, 2001 ] Igbo Losses Counted at Oputa Panel [Panafrican News Agency, December 20, 1999] Essays Oputa Panel: Matters Arising by Collins Onyenze [Vanguard, August 30, 2004] DID President Obasanjo and his administration set-up the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) determined not to implement the reports, or could they not help themselves? This is the question many meaningful Nigerians are asking. Nigerians who gave their time and efforts to the success of the commission must be worried that the President has kept quiet and allowing the Oputa Panel report gather dust in the archives... SUNDAY MUSINGS: Why Government Should Release the Okigbo and Oputa Panels’ Reports – A Question of Credibility Mobolaji Aluko [April 25, 2004] There have been several attempts in the past to provide some measure of accountability, but two are particularly significant: these are supposed to have been documented in the Okigbo Panel Report of 1994, instituted during the Abacha regime, that details how our oil money was spent during the 16-year period 1985 - 1991; and the Oputa Panel Report of 2002, instituted under the current Obasanjo civilian administration, that details how our human rights were violated during the 33-year period 1966 - 1999. Ironically, neither report has been made public: in fact, the Okigbo report was recently declared “missing” from government archives, and as far as the Oputa report is concerned, the government has not indicated what it wishes to do with the eight-volume document that was given to it back in May 2002 in broad daylight... Where is the Oputa Commissions's Report? Sonny Onyegbula [Vanguard, February 13, 2004] The Oputa Commission submitted its report to President Olusegun Obasanjo on 28 May 2002 and most surprisingly 21 months after the government has neither released the report to Nigerians nor implemented the recommendations of the Commission. Nigerians are now asking where the Oputa Commission's report is. Is the report going to go the way the report of other Commissions in the past have gone? To the latter question, the answer should be a categorical No. Nigerians as a people should never allow the Oputa Commission's report to continue to gather dust in some office somewhere or its recommendations to be sacrificed on the alter of political exigencies or lack of political will... Human Rights Violations Gone with the Wind [Analysis - This Day, October 16, 2002] Oputa's Unfinished Business by Sam Nda-Isaiah [Daily Trust, June 9, 2002] Between Substance and Symbolism by Louis Odion [ThisDay, May 31, 2002] Insight Into Oputa Panel's Report: As Oputa Panel Submits Reports by Malachy Uzendu [Daily Champion (Lagos), May 25, 2002] THE much-awaited report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) will be handed over to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday. No doubt, the Oputa panel's report is eagerly being awaited by Nigerians not because the report is capable of addressing all aspects of human rights abuses in the country, but Nigerians want to have a pedestal upon which they can gauge what to do and what to expect, especially as the nation approaches the real transition, which is from civil to another civil rule... Nigeria: Time for Justice and Accountability Amnesty International [December 21, 2000]
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