NHRC Indicts Judiciary, Police, INEC Over Electoral Impunity

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has indicted the Nigerian Judiciary, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for perpetrating electoral impunity in Nigeria.
In its report on the investigation of the election petitions filed at the various election petition tribunals across the six geo-political zones, the commission found the three key organisations in the electoral process culpable of promoting electoral offences, which are a threat to the nation’s democracy.
The report was released in Abuja this morning and is titled, “An Independent Review of Evidence of Gross Violations of the Rights to Participate in Government to Public Service and to fair trial through the Election Petition Process in Nigeria — 2007 and 2011.”
The 146-page document was prepared by a seven-member expert Technical Working Group, TWG, constituted by the NHRC and chaired by Nsongurua Udombana.
The other members are Mohammed Akanbi, Oluyemisi Bamgbose, Ifeoma Enemo, Muhammed Ladan and Solomon Ukhuegbe.
The report provides evidence of the extensive pattern of judicially sanctioned criminality in the election cycle as part of the continuing narrative of the long history of elections as organised crime in Nigeria.