By Emman Ovuakporie

ABUJA—FORMER governor of Edo State and Chairman, National Law Reform Commission, NLRC, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, has accused the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, of deliberately publishing falsehood over an unsubstantiated electoral offence.

Osunbor also challenged the commission to make public the alleged electoral offences for which it recommended his prosecution to the Attorney General of the Federation, accussing the commission of acting out a script to tarnish his image.

He said that the commission, according to media reports, had recom-mended his prosecution over electoral offences to AGF.

Osunbor said: “I wrote a letter addressed to Professor Ben Angwe, Executive Secretary to NHRC to verify the authenticity of the reports.

“I gave the Commission one week within which to respond to my enquiry. One week has elapsed and I have not received any reply from the commission neither has the commission issued any denial of the reports.

“As I said before in my letter, I demanded to know what specific offence or offences I committed and they have failed or refused to answer.

“I am, therefore, left with no option than to conclude that the commission acted recklessly or mischievously to tarnish my name and defame my character. It may even be that they are acting out a script.”