Why is this toothless general seeking to stop the probe if he has nothing to be afraid of?



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LAGOS, 19 June 2002 (IRIN) - A legal battle began on Tuesday between former Nigerian military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, and the government over a probe into an unsolved 16-year-old murder of a prominent journalist Dele Giwa, which occurred during Babangida's reign.

Nigeria’s Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) in its report to President Olusegun Obasanjo last month recommended the prosecution of Babangida and two former intelligence chiefs for the murder of Giwa by parcel bomb in his Lagos home on 19 October 1986.

Obasanjo last month appointed a special committee to oversee the implementation of its recommendations. HRVIC was set up by Obasanjo soon after being elected president, to investigate human rights violations in Nigeria since the 1960s.

Babangida subsequently filed a suit to stop Obasanjo from "considering or accepting observations and recommendations" of the commission concerning him. When the suit came up for hearing on Tuesday, the government filed a counter suit seeking the authority to act on HRVIC’s recommendations. Hearing was adjourned to 8 July.


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