NHRC declares emergency on treatment of complaints

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has declared a state of emergency on complaints treatment process in the commission. In a statement signed by the commission’s  Head of Media, Fatimah Agwai,  the Acting Executive Secretary, Mrs. Oti Ovrawah, said the emergency declaration was  to tackle emerging institutional challenges and improve response capacity of the commission […]

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has declared a state of emergency on complaints treatment process in the commission.

In a statement signed by the commission’s  Head of Media, Fatimah Agwai,  the Acting Executive Secretary, Mrs. Oti Ovrawah, said the emergency declaration was  to tackle emerging institutional challenges and improve response capacity of the commission in the treatment of complaints bordering on human rights violations.

Ovrawah who stated this during a meeting with staff of the commission recently in Abuja, noted that the geometric increase in the number of complaints now being received by the commission and the statutory responsibility of the commission to ensure prompt and diligent consideration of all cases necessitated the recent redeployment of more staff to the Department of Protection and Investigation.

She stated further that “the commission owes the public a statutory duty to ensure institutional integrity in the discharge of its mandate  so as to retain public confidence and public legitimacy.”