David Mark, yesterday, assured that nothing would be swept under the carpet in an effort by the Senate to unravel the circumstances that led to recent killing of nine suspected insurgents in the Apo District of the Federal Capital Territory.
Nine illegal occupants of an uncompleted building were killed attacked by Soldiers and SSS operatives who claim they had intel report that they were Boko Haram members with large cache of arms buried around the building. The SSS are yet to confirm if they found any arms.
Mark, who spoke at an opening session of the Senate Joint Investigative Committee on Alleged Extra-judicial Killings in Apo, Abuja, assured that members of the committee would not inject “biases or sentiments in the course of their assignment.”
He said: “There will be no biases; no sentiments and we have no preconceived ideas. All we are interested in is to get to the root of the matter. We are approaching the matter with an open mind to get the facts so that justice would be done.”
The Senate President therefore, appealed to Nigerians who have facts about the Apo incident to freely volunteer information about the killing just as he assured that the committee was not to witch-hunt anyone, saying it was rather, purely on fact-finding to address the problem and forestall any future occurrence.
He said: “This is not the time for blame game. It is time to find the facts. We must hear from all sides of the divide so that we can establish the truth and proffer solutions to the crises.” Senator Mark regretted the ceaseless activities of insurgence in the country and reminded Nigerians that the war against terrorism was a collective fight of all if the battle must be won.
Speaking earlier, Chairman of the joint investigating committee, Senator Mohammed Magoro, assured that the committee would do its job honestly, justly, fairly and with the fear God.
He said all parties in the crisis would be given fair hearing without bias, fear or favour.
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