Terrorist Group but may have interacted with them “unknowingly” while living
as tenants in the uncompleted building. The Applicants shall relied on page 62 of
the Senate Report.
It is the reasonable expectation of the Applicants that law enforcement agents,
including members of the 2nd and 3rd Defendants, are required to be circumspect
in the exercise of their duty and to also provide compensation to any innocent
victim who loses his property, limb or life in the course of operation leading to
the violation of the Applicants’ rights.
That during the Question and Comments session with the Commander, Guards
Brigade, of the 2nd Defendant, he conceded that compensation to the victims could
heal wounds. Below is a representation of the interaction as contained in page 56
of the Senate Report;
At the Senate Joint Committee hearing, the Counsel to the Applicants, Mr. Sanusi
Musa, who presented a written submission did request the Senate Joint Committee
to direct the payment of compensation to the victims as follows;
a. N 100,000,000 to each of the victims as follows;
b. N 20,000,000 to each of the injured.
However, this request was never heeded. The failure to heed to this request is
because the Nigerian Government has deliberately and actively insisted on ZERO
COMPENSATION to innocent victims of the 1st Defendant fight against Boko
Haram insurgency. Prior to the episode of 20th September 2013, the Nigerian
Government set up a Presidential Committee on the Security challenges in the
North-East relating to acts of insurgency and terrorism. The Presidential
Committee in the month of November 2013 submitted its report to the President
of Nigeria recommending that Nigeria should pay compensation to the victims of
the Boko Haram insurgency. However, by several newspaper publications
circulated within Nigeria on the 6th day of November 2013, the Nigerian
Government rejected the recommendation.
The Socio –Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, (a renowned
non-governmental organization reputed for fighting for the enthronement of the
rule of law and the enforcement of fundamental rights in Nigeria) petitioned the
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