Vanguard
13 May 2011
Gbenga Oke
THE 2011 elections might have come and gone but not so for the agony trailing the polls. Many Nigerian families lost loved ones in some northern states during the post-presidential election mayhem.
Violence, which claimed many innocent lives erupted in some parts of the North after President Goodluck Jonathan was declared as the overall winner of the presidential elections. According to the figures recorded by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), many youth corps members from different states of the federation lost their lives in the process. At least 75,000 people were forced to flee their homes as a result of the violence and about 55,000 of them are in camps for the displaced, while the remaining 20,000 have been taken in by family members or friends.
As each day passed, prominent Nigerians had been calling on the Federal Government to look into the various killings and bring the perpetrators to book. As this calls continued, President Goodluck Jonathan raised a 22-man panel of inquiry headed by Sheikh Ahmed Lemu to probe the post election violence.
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