Mandate: Proposed by President Oluseguh Obasanjo to investigate the causes, nature and extent of the gross violations of human rights from June 2000 to May 2004, to facilitate the recommendation of granting amnesty to persons who make full disclosure of the truth of committed acts, to establish and make known the fate and whereabouts of victims and to inquire into the causes, the nature, the background and the objective of the human rights violations | 
