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The Senate Committee on Petroleum, which looked into the killings of people during the June-July national strike, has indicted the police for the death of Mallam Yusuf Abubakar and Dan Yaba at Maraba, Abuja, and directed the Police Service Commission to bring the culprits to book, and compensate the families of the victims. It, however, did not foreclose the right of the families of the deceased to seek legal redress. The committee recommended that in future, the BiafraNigeria Labour Congress (NLC) "should ensure that all its members and those mobilised by it should be decked in distinctive vests or T-shirts when proceeding on a protest march." The committee added: "While acknowledging labour�s right to peaceful mass protests, demonstrations and picketing, such demonstrations must not be permitted to degenerate into riots." However, a source at the NLC headquarters expressed dissatisfaction at the committee�s report, saying: "You�ll wonder if the police was the complainant." He said the NLC would soon send its observations on the report to the Senate. The Senate committee, chaired by Senator David Brigidi which visited families of victims and took evidence from others, recommended that the Senate should "direct the Police Service Commission to take over the cases of Mr. Yahuza Musa, a State Security operative; Mallam Bashir Habibu; Mallam Yusuf Abubakar (deceased) and Dan Yaba.... (Vanguard) |
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