Rivers Emergency Rule: Proposed Enquiry Commission invites Human Rights Monitors, HURMA; Others to Investigate National Assembly Process; Alleged Bribery, others – Rights Monitors

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The Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA Global Resource Initiative) has received an invitation to be part of ongoing coalition process towards formation of a National Inquiry Commission to investigate the just concluded Claim of Vote by The Lower and Upper Chambers of the Nigerian National Assembly.

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According to Nigeria Director of Citizens’ Solution Network, Richard INOYO in the document sent to Comrade Buna Olaitan Isiak, the Executive Director of HURMA on the early hours of Saturday 22nd March, 2025, the proposed Commission which shall be made up of prominent civil rights activists, journalists, constitutional lawyers, student leaders, trader unionists, and forensic scientists shall be mandated to carry out a firsthand inquiry into the nature and authenticity of the true identities of the persons who were said to be inside the hollow chambers during the alleged voting.

This is said to be as a result of many calls by Nigerian citizens both and abroad who are sharing their doubts and reservations about the question: “If those who were said to have participated and supported the voice voting, if they were actually current serving senators and house of representative members or if they were just faceless persons who were brought into the hollow chambers of the National Assembly Complex and to its floors to scream in favour of the pronouncement.

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“This Commission of Inquiry shall also investigate the pre-voting conditions to establish what and what happened before the voice voting was done and to let Nigerians and the rest of the world know if bribery occurred, before, during and after the said voice voting?

“The Commission of Inquiry shall also conduct additional investigation to verify if the voice voting is in contravention of the Nigerian Constitution and therefore declared null and void or if it was in line with the provisions of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution as amended.

“Citizens’ Solution Network shall equally diversified the outcome of the investigation report and the end-publication of the Commission of Inquiry to find out if the Speaker of the lower chamber and the Senate President of the red chamber followed the provisions of the constitution or violated it by virtual of their declaration and utilisation of voice voting during the plenary session on such critical matter of grave national importance.

“Question regarding the declaration and the hurried implementation of the state of emergency by the President of Nigeria with troops moving towards the River State Government House and the sole administrator_ Mr. Ibokete Ibas being sworn-in in Abuja, even before the National Assembly had a say on the matter, if the President of Nigeria, Mr. Bola A. Tinubu breached the constitution or acted in line with the constitution shall be investigated in during the course of the Commission of Inquiry.

“The outcomes of the Commission of Inquiry shall have far-reaching consequences on the nation and the polity of future actions as well as citizens’ mobilisation and enforcement of their rights to defend and uphold the relevant sections of the Constitution if such grand norm of the federation was found to be vitiated or undermined by any authority as regards that specific issue and the planetary section that followed”.