I have read tweets of people questioning why the FG asked States to set up the Judicial Panel of Inquiry citing the example of OBJ's Oputa Panel. Well this is why you need a bit of history.

The Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (aka The Oputa Panel) was created..

...in 1999 by President Obasanjo with the mandate to "investigate human rights abuses during the period of military rule from 1984 to 1999 and to work towards reconciliation of the various communities and groups of people that were in conflict with one another under military rule

The commission submitted its final report to OBJ in 2002 and it's recommendations were made public in 2005 by 2 activist groups. Now for the close to 2yrs the panel sat (even though it shd have been for only 3mths), some ex-military rulers like IBB refused to appear on the panel.

They rather went to court to challenge the right of the FG to set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry that covered the nation. This suit eventually went all the way to the supreme court who in 2003 agreed with the Generals that only States have the powers to setup Judicial Panels

The FG can only setup a Judicial Panel for the FCT. This is why the NEC resolved for States to setup these panels. We must therefore demand that

1. State Governors setup Judicial Panels of Inquiry while the FG also setup that of the FCT Abuja

2. The hearings must be public and

3. The recommendations of the Commission MUST be implemented. I say this because the recommendations of the Oputa Panel submitted since 2002 has not been implemented till today (18 years after).

The VP already committed to doing 1 & 2, but he was silent about 3. It's important..

...to extract a commitment from the FG that they will implement the recommendations of the Judicial Commissions of Inquiry of the 36 States + the FCT. Since the inquiry concerns the actions of the @PoliceNG which is under the FG, it's the FG that'll implement the recommendations.

This is not a time to be distracted, rather it is a time to be focused and dispassionately learn from history. #EndSARS