(Onitsha Nigeria, 16th November 2017)-Human Rights campaigns around the world have no boundaries and are beyond municipal, regional and int’l legislative and executive policy restrictions. In other words, human rights campaigns are carried out in the entire 193 member-States of the UN, 46 trusteeship territories and territories of world’s 10 million Stateless persons.
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Defense of human rights is originally rooted in volunteerism, passion for humanity and selfless service to humanity. It is also not-for-profit activity.

Collective rights and their management are the very reason why State or government was founded; for the purpose of ensuring that citizens exercise their rights within bounds or without encroaching on the rights of others.

For human rights to be effectively exercised and enjoyed by the citizens, they must not be allowed to be exercised or enjoyed beyond established bounds or at the detriment of the rights of others.

Natural beneficiaries of human rights have in many cases been found engaging in wanton disrespect of the rights of others in the course of exercise of their own rights. Governments and other State actors are also reckless violators of the citizens’ rights.

Nigeria especially under the present central government of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari is a notorious human rights violator. These explain the reason why the same Government hardly mentions human rights as one of its policy directions (if any) since its inception in late May 2015.

The roles of human rights activists and organizations, especially in Nigeria have over the years been grossly misunderstood or taken for granted by the beneficiaries of such human rights campaigns, successive governments and other State actors.

At the level of social organizations (i.e. pro Biafra agitators), defense of their human rights by the likes of Intersociety and SBCHROs has also grossly been misconstrued or taken for granted.

Individual and group defenders of human rights are, in most cases, erroneously seen as “members” or “branches” or an extension of the victim-social groups. Both State actor violators and non State actor victim-groups and individual victims are guilty of this.
Violator-public office holders or government officials also see human rights defenders as “bought over” or “sponsored by the opposition”.

This is the weakest point of intellectual logic and argumentation and has been responsible for government woes over the years in Nigeria. Defense of human rights goes hand in hand with democratic free speech; yet in the recent words of Mr. Shehu Garba (Buhari’s media aide), “those criticizing Buhari Administration are those wanting to be bribed to shut up”.

Truly speaking, the defense of human rights through individual or group activism or advocacy has largely been corrupted, monetized and bastardized especially in present Nigeria. The central aim of human rights campaign has largely been lost.

Natural or original defense of human rights and selfless and conscientious human rights defenders have eluded the present Nigeria. Human rights undertakers and merchants have taken over and dominated.

According to several scholars and researchers who studied the dark sides of human rights activism around the world, “human rights undertakers or profiteers of human misery have taken over and dominated the defense of human rights in modern world”.
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