Jonathan drags Obasanjo
to rights commission
over criminal
allegations

President Jonathan Goodluck yesterday
submitted himself to the National Human
Rights Commission, NHRC, for probe over
criminal allegations against him by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Former President Obasanjo had written an
18-page open letter to Jonathan, accusing
him of incompetence, engaging in anti-
party activities, ethnicism and training
about 1,000 snipers ahead of the 2015
polls.
Jonathan, who denied the allegations in his
response, is specifically inviting the rights
commission to unravel the truth in the
allegation that his government had begun
training over 1,000 snipers to terminate his
political opponents.
In a letter to the commission, President
Jonathan is seeking for a thorough
investigation of the allegations against him,
touching on alleged human rights abuses.
The letter, signed by the Attorney-General
of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke,
SAN, on the directive of Jonathan, had
already been submitted to NHRC.
The letter dated December 23, 2013 was
submitted yesterday. Sources close to the
Presidency said that similar letters had
been written to the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The two anti-graft agencies are to probe
allegations of economic crimes and official
corruption against the Jonathan’s
administration as contained in Obasanjo’s
letter.

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