The National Human Rights Commission has vowed to ensure that people, who are culpable of human rights violations, hate speeches and violence  during the 2015 electioneering process are prosecuted.
The commission said it will soon raise a fact-finding panel, which will conduct public hearing on the cases and make recommendations to appropriate government agencies for the prosecution of the offenders.
 
The commission stated this in a communiqué issued at the end of its Governing Council’s second statutory meeting of 2015.
 
The meeting, held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, between May 21 and 23, 2015, but the commission, through its Press Officer, Mrs. Fatimah Mohamed, released the communiqué to journalists on Monday.
 
The commission said the panel, to be set up, would afford Nigerians the opportunity to present their complaints on the various electoral offences.
The communiqué read in part, “As a follow up to the pre- election advisory report issued by the commission and the election monitoring activities undertaken by its staff in the build up to, during and immediately after the 2015 general elections, council considered cases and complaints on human rights violations, including hate speeches and political violence which were received and monitored by the commission in the period under review.
 
“Council further authorised the constitution of a Fact Finding Panel that will hold public hearings in order to provide to Nigerians the opportunity to present their complaints of electoral violence in order to actualize the Commission’s resolve to hold perpetrators accountable in accordance with the law.
 
“The Fact-Finding Panel, upon consideration of the complaints and petitions shall make recommendations for appropriate response and interventions by the various law enforcement agencies and prosecution authorities.”
 
The NHRC applauded the progress made  by the Nigerian military, assisted by neighbouring countries, against insurgency in the North-E