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DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS CAN'T DECLARE IPOB A TERRORIST ORGANISATION- SAYS HURIWA

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A pro- Democracy and Non- Governmental organisation- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has warned that the Nigerian Military has increasingly become anti- democratic and assuming legislative powers just as the Rights group said the Defence Headquarters can't exercise a power they don't have picking and choosing when to grade any group a terror organisation.
HURIWA said both section 4 of the Constitution of Nigeria and section 6 recognised the National Assembly as the body to exercise legislative powers of the federation and the judicial powers of the Federation and therefore condemns the attempt by the Defence Headquarters to execute a power the Constitution does not confer on it. The group said the pronouncement on IPOB as a terrorist group is a charade and a plot to initiate violent crackdown on the members of this substantially unarmed and peaceful group.

The Rights group said the military institution as a creation of the law must not be permitted to grow wings and become an omnibus vehicle that would ride roughshod on the democratic and constitutional rights of associations and groups to operate as strictly non-violent and peaceful bodies just as HURIWA said by the Constitutional provision only the Courts of competent jurisdictions or the legislative chambers of the Nigerian National Assembly under the relevant provisions of the Constitution has the law making bodies to so make pronouncements on which groups can be categorised as terrorist organisations.

In a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss ZainabYusuf, HURIWA said the attempt by Major General John Enenche of the Defence Headquarters to confer on his office the powers of judicial or legislative authorities by unilaterally declaring the Europe registered Indigenous peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group is unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, null and void and of no consequence just as the Rights group said the pronouncement is ominous and could spell doom for the continuous enjoyment of Constitutional freedoms should such a careless pronouncement of lawlessness and tyranny not be challenged and condemned.

"We reject this coup plot against the constitutional rights of citizens to join associations freely and to assemble peacefully. The illegal pronouncement of the Defence Headquarters that IPOB is a terrorist organisation shows that the Defence authority is working in tandem with the AREWA YOUTH coalition which had recently canvassed the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist group. The military must be stopped from attempting to imprison a huge number of Igbo youth only because they are seeking to enjoy their rights to self determination which is authorised by all international laws. This Defence Headquarters will one day pronounce any town union as terrorist organisation the moment the group opposes the government of the day. This dictatorship must be uprooted immediately and comprehensively defeated".

" We agree with a prominent Benin lawyer who affirmed that Section 2 of the Terrorism (prevention) Act, 2011 (as amended)

Proscribed or terrorist organization:
(c) setting up or pursuing acts of terrorism, the Judge in Chambers may on an application made by Attorney General, National Security Adviser or Inspector General of police on the approval of the President ; declare any entity to be a proscribed organization and the notice should be published in official gazette".

Please has the DHQ complied with the appropriate procedure in declaring IPOB a terrorist organization ? What is the legal and operational implication of this declaration ?

What is " acts of terrorism" in the circumstances of this Law ?

Are Herdsmen terrorists?".

Human right association of NIGERIA fight for the right of Nigerian people.

I want the human right association of "Nigeria" to know this, IPOB are not Nigerians, they said they are not Nigerians, they said they are "biafrans" pls Nigerian human right mind your business..it like Russian human rights association fighting for the right of Americans in america..!!

whitebeard:
Human right association of NIGERIA fight for the right of Nigerian people.

I want the human right association of "Nigeria" to know this, IPOB are not Nigerians, they said they are not Nigerians, they said they are "biafrans" pls Nigerian human right mind your business..it like Russian human rights association fighting for the right of Americans in america..!!

Y is Nigeria holding dem hostage and sending troops to their country? Let dem go then. Mind u, i am not in support of the division f Nigeria just responding to ur comment.

Is becoming interesting

FemiFimile:


Y is Nigeria holding dem hostage and sending troops to their country? Let dem go then. Mind u, i am not in support of the division f Nigeria just responding to ur comment.

no one is holding anyone hostage here, firstly there is no agitation for Biafra, this is just a scheme to distablize Nigeria, so if Nigeria yields to this scheme even u will complain that why did we yeild to something like that.

Ipob attacked Nigerians threatened nigeria, they have an army to attack Nigerians and even threatened the commander in chief of Nigerian armed force, attacked soldiers who where simply there to showcase the superiority of Nigerian armed force, proclaimed a country on Nigerian soil..pls if u think it not enough to attack ipob, then analize what is going on between north Korea and america. It almost the same thing but on a large scale.

TonyeBarcanista, read this and tell them the AGF, NASS, NSA, IG and the Judiciary delegated the DHQ to pick n choose who to label as terrorist organisation.

Egypt declared a political party that won a preaidential election a terrorist group and clamped down heavily on them. Egypt is one of America's strongest allies.

Heaven didn't fall.

Ipob is a terrorist organization. Deal with that.

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omenka:
Egypt declared a political party that won a preaidential election a terrorist group and clamped down heavily on them. Egypt is one of America's strongest allies.

Heaven didn't fall.

Ipob is a terrorist organization. Deal with that.

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Buhari is a terrorist - Omenka

omenka:
Egypt declared a political party that won a preaidential election a terrorist group and clamped down heavily on them. Egypt is one of America's strongest allies.

Heaven didn't fall.

Ipob is a terrorist organization. Deal with that.

It was a muslim brotherhood.

whitebeard:
no one is holding anyone hostage here, firstly there is no agitation for Biafra, this is just a scheme to distablize Nigeria, so if Nigeria yields to this scheme even u will complain that why did we yeild to something like that.

Ipob attacked Nigerians threatened nigeria, they have an army to attack Nigerians and even threatened the commander in chief of Nigerian armed force, attacked soldiers who where simply there to showcase the superiority of Nigerian armed force, proclaimed a country on Nigerian soil..pls if u think it not enough to attack ipob, then analize what is going on between north Korea and america. It almost the same thing but on a large scale.

u are a northerner? always tell the ibo u are from the north so dey dont think ur yoruba.