Hassan-Kukah to reveals memoirs of Oputa Panel Tuesday

Bishop Mathew Hassan-Kukah will on Tuesday, July 26, in Ibadan, give a critical accounts of the findings from the Nigeria’s Truth Commission 2011, popularly known as `Oputa Panel’.

This is contained in a statement signed by Dr. Festus Adedayo, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday.

Adebayo said that Hassan-Kukah, Bishop of Catholic Diocese, Sokoto, would be the guest of the Book Readers’ Club of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP).

He said that the bishop would be reading from his book `Witness to Justice: An Insider’s Account of Nigeria’s Truth Commission (2011).

According to him, Hassan-Kukah will be giving a critical narrative of the Human Rights Violation Investigations Commission established to investigate the causes, nature and extent of human rights violations from 1966 to 1999.

Adebayo said that the commission set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2011 was headed by the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa.

He said that Hassan-Kukah’s reading would be the second of such in the school. The maiden reading was by Odia Ofeimun, a Labour Party gubernatorial aspirant in Edo State.

Ofeimun read from his book, “Taking Nigeria Seriously’’.