The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has announced plans to inaugurate a committee of experts to review all existing laws that contravene the provisions of human rights in Nigeria.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, gave a hint about the planned review in Abuja on Friday when a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Miss Faith Tlakula, led a delegation on a working visit to the headquarters of the commission.
Professor Angwe said the committee, which was appointed last week, had been mandated to carry out a thorough review of such laws that impede the protection and enforcement of human rights.
Miss Tlakula, who is also the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, said that her team came to the NHRC to know what the commission was doing to scale up compliance to the Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria.
She said that the NHRC was expected to play a leading role in meeting with civil society groups towards advocating a robust flow of information.
The leader of the delegation also decried the slow pace of disposing court cases concerning non-compliance to the Freedom of Information Act.
