H. E. Mr. Felix Yusufu Pwol:

No, no. The facts that I gave the committee were established by the Government of Nigeria. I do not want to comment on what Amnesty International has said.

Information management in this matter involves a delicate balance in a democratic situation. While we appreciate the need for the public to know, we should also be mindful of how these figures are arrived at. Many organisations have come out with such figures which we have found are not correct. The established figure for the Abuja bus station bomb blast was 75 killed, but some organisations claimed that the death toll was between 100 and 175.