Chukwudifu oputa biography of mahatma

          Oputa Panel, , Report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission.

        1. Atop the seven-man commission is year-old legal patriach Justice Chukwudifu Oputa.
        2. Hails from Oguta in Imo State, South East of Nigeria.
        3. Chukwudifu Oputa headed, commissioned to investigate human rights abuses committed from to and also became known as 'Oputa Panel'.
        4. Mahatma Gandhi, in his quote, was of the opinion that 'an eye for an eye' would eventually succeed in making the whole world go blind Retribution.
        5. Hails from Oguta in Imo State, South East of Nigeria....

          Chukwudifu Oputa

          Nigerian judge

          Chukwudifu OputaCFR (22 September 1924 – 4 May 2014) was a Nigerian jurist who was Judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 1984 to 1989.

          He was appointed in 1999 by Olusegun Obasanjo to head the Oputa panel which investigated human right abuses by former military juntas and submitted their findings in 2003.

          Early life and education

          Chukwudifu Oputa was born on 22 September 1916 in Oguta to Chief Oputa Uzukwu and Madam Nwametu Oputa.

          His father an Igbo chieftain married 10 wives and fathered multiple children of which Chukwudifu was the last.[1][2][3] He started his education at the Sacred Heart School, Oguta from 1930 to 1936 and then proceeded to the Christ the king College, Onitsha for his post primary education from 1937 to 1940 where he obtained his West Africa Senior School Certificate.[1]

          Oputa furthered to the Yaba Higher College but had to leave for Achimota College, Ghana during the World