THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Thursday in Abuja, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Canadian firm, Mills and Scope Canada Inc on capacity building of staff members of the commission.

Signing on behalf of the commission, the Executive Secretary, Mr Tony Ojukwu, said that for the workers to effectively carry out their mandate of ensuring rights promotion and protection, they had to be adequately trained.

“This is a partnership that will increase the capacity of the staff to achieve the mandate of the commission, so we will need to give them our full cooperation.

“It is a big opportunity for us since capacity building is a continuous process and the digital mapping will particularly be of utmost benefit to us as this whole partnership will change the way the commission operates.”

Co-founder of the firm, Prof. Obiora Okafor, who signed on its behalf, said that the firm’s key focus was to provide strategic and innovative advisory and technical expertise to clients to help them optimise their capacity.

Okafor said the firm would particularly build the capacity of staff of the commission on digital mapping to enable them produce accurate records of when a human right violation occurred and who was responsible.

Okafor, a Canadian based human rights professor, further said there would be a focus on human rights in election as well as training human rights election observers.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the partnership would last for five years and is renewable. (NAN)

– Aug. 9, 2018 @ 18:25 GMT |