The Department of State Security had said it killed the men in an attack on a sleeper cell of the Boko Haram terrorist network. It said its agents fired in self-defense after they were attacked.
The commission said today there was no evidence those killed were terrorists, nor that they were armed. Human rights organisations had filed a complaint with the state-funded commission charging the agents on September 20 fired on unarmed artisans sleeping in a half-finished building.