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The President, Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria (AISSON),
Dr. Ona Ekhomu has advised the Federal Government to set up a high-powered Special
Board of Inquiry (SBOI) to competently investigate high profile murder and
assassination cases in the country. Ekhomu said the Special Board of Inquiry
should be given wide powers to summon witnesses, police investigators, experts
and political actors who can shed light on the cases.
Ekhomu
said the image of Nigeria will be greatly improved if the government matched
its pronouncement about reopening and resolving cold cases with resolute
action. He said that the unresolved assassination of Chief Bola Ige, Engr.
Funsho Williams, Dr. Harry Marshall, Pa Alfred Rewane, among others was a poor
commentary on the capability and commitment of Nigeria to redress the human
rights of persons murdered in the country.
“Aside from the rights of the
victims, solving these cold cases will give closure to the families of the
victims. It will also reduce the pervasive culture of impunity in the country,”
he added.
A
Professional Certified Investigator (PCI), Dr. Ekhomu advised that the already
over-burdened and under-equipped police agency should not be appointed to lead
the investigations. Instead a brilliant and energetic judicial officer should
be appointed to head the SBOI. The Chairman should then hand-pick experts and
specialists to assist him carry out this presidential assignment.
According
to the first chartered security expert in Nigeria, the Special Board of Inquiry
team membership should include homicide detectives, investigative experts including private
investigators, forensic scientists, computer experts, fraud auditors, criminal
profilers and others. He called for
criminal law experts, document examiners and other core investigative specialties.
Ekhomu
commended Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari for revisiting the unsolved
murders and assassinations. He opined that unraveling the crimes would serve as
a lasting legacy for the Buhari administration.
He urged the President to use the full weight and moral authority of his
office to ensure that the SBOI succeeded as it is suspected that powerful politicians
may have been behind the heinous crimes.
He said
that the Federal Government should resist the temptation to make this a
political job opportunity. “The decision rule here should be the competence and
integrity of the Chairman and members of the SBOI”, he added.
He said
that unsolved cases tended to reduce trust in the abilities of he government to
detect perpetrators of serious crimes such as assassination, terrorism, murder,
etc.
He
advised the SBOI to utilize powerful conceptual models and computer modeling/tools
to aid its information gathering and analytic tasks. He advised the SBOI to use
nonlinear, stochastic, dynamic models to conduct the inquiry.
According to Dr.
Ekhomu, “the investigators must utilize target-centric models and more detailed
component models such as sub-models and collateral models in identifying the
killers and developing evidence of probative value that would result in
conviction in a court of law.”
He
concluded that if the Federal Government through the instrumentality of the
SBOI conducted a transparent and competent investigation of the high profile
assassination cases, then it “may not be accused of carrying out a political
witch-hunt against the oppositions.”
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