xi) The dire humanitarian situation of populations affected by the insecurity in the North East, particularly internally displaced persons and the challenges relating to the timely delivery of humanitarian support including food, water, health services and full and coordinated access to humanitarian agencies.
xii) Reports of severe restrictions on the movement of IDPs in camps under the supervision of the Nigerian army.
xiii) Continuing problems of oil spillage and gas flare-ups.
xiv) Out of date policy and regulatory regime governing the extractive industries including weak regulations which do not hold the operation of the oil and gas industry to a high standard and ensure that revenues are used for development purposes.
xv) The lack of effective implementation and delivery of various initiatives meant to resolve the problems in the Niger Delta.
The delegation expressed willingness to prepare a detailed mission report with specific recommendation, but had this to say on the interim. “The commission will prepare a detailed mission report with specifics recommendations. Meanwhile, the delegation would like to make the following preliminary recommendations”:
i) Ratify regional and international instruments, in particular the Second Optional Protocol to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, in addition to making the declaration under article 34(6) of the African Court Protocol to allow individuals and NGOs direct access to the Court.
ii) Urge Parliament to expedite the adoption of the laws including the Bill on Torture, Disability, petroleum Industry, including other pending bills which have a bearing on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria.
iii) Urgently promote domestication of the Administration of Justice Act at the State level, in order to ensure the right to a speedy trial for all prisoners currently awaiting trial.
iv) Submit the next Periodic Report, in line with Article 62 of the African Charter and Article 26 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa; etc.
According to ACHPR Commissioner, the objective of the mission was among other things, to:-
– promote the African Charter and other regional and international human rights legal instruments;
– strengthen relations between the Commission and Nigeria with regard to the promotion and protection of the rights guaranteed by the African Charter and other relevant human rights instruments;
– monitor implementation of the recommendations made in the Report following the mission that was undertaken in Nigeria in 2009 and the recommendations contained in the Commission’s Concluding Observations, adopted following Nigeria’s presentation of its 5th Periodic Report during the 56th ordinary session, held from 21st April to 7th May 2015, in Banjul, Gambia among others.
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