sunnybobonwa:
400 Oyigbo Residents Still Missing, Intersociety Alleges …Calls UN, EU, US, UK, Canada, ICC To Intervene




The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Inter-society) has said that the Nigerian Army allegedly arrested and detained over 400 Oyigbo residents in Rivers State, all Christians and mostly Igbo citizens.

The human rights group said out of the 400 or more, 150 have been discovered to be held indefinitely and incommunicado in secret Army and police dungeons located in Abuja, FCT, without court trial.

The Intersociety Chairman, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi said in a statement, yesterday, that “52 defenceless Oyigbo residents, all Christian Igbos, were recently rescued and their release secured through three different courts and four processes in Niger State.

“The 52 rescued abductees exclude three that died from torture in soldiers’ captivity. While one died on the road during their secret and night-long transportation from Oyigbo-to-Obinze (Army Barracks)-Abuja, two others died in secret Army detention custodies in Niger State,” he alleged.

“It was further discovered that most of the abductees were transported by road while others, including elderly ones among them were airlifted through the local wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State and the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Imo State.

“One major attribute of the dreaded Decree 2 now being used clandestinely by the Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai-led Nigerian Army is the extrajudicial transfer and incarceration of citizens abducted by Army at prison facilities without recourse to court orders or remands.

“In other words, citizens abducted by soldiers are now sent directly to prisons from military custodies on orders of the Army High Commands, including the COAS or the C-in-C. This is one of the dreaded features of the obnoxious Decree 2 now in clandestine practice in the country.

“The Nigerian Army and the Government of Nigeria must, as a matter of extreme urgency, release the remaining 348 Oyigbo abductees, including 150 presently being held incommunicado since two months in Abuja and secret military and spy police detention facilities in other parts of the North.

“The Army must also account for the death of three abductees (late citizens Kingsley Iwuagwu, Okechukwu Anyanwu and Chijioke). The UN, EU, US, UK, Canada and others are hereby called upon to prevail on the Nigerian authorities to retrace its steps before it plunges the country into crises of unquenchable proportion.

“The attention of the ICC and internationally respected rights bodies and personalities are also drawn,” Umeagbalasi stated.

Cyberterror:
As long as they are IPOB terrorists, their deaths can be justified. Intersociety should be deregistered by CAC for collaborating with the terrorists.

valirex:
Afonja Skull miners like Balogunodua might be responsible, we need to do proper investigations

Balogunodua:

Looks like I'm more popular that the Oni (Priest) of ife now ....

valirex:
Afonja Skull miners like Balogunodua might be responsible, we need to do proper investigations

Onlinesmart:
Has your bloda being freed in Pakistan? I heard he was caught on his last drug trip. Hope una go still do the Xmas like this?

Onlinesmart:
My bloda hasn't being freed in Pakistan. I heard he was caught on his last drug trip. Hope I go still do the Xmas like this?

Bigflamie:
My heart is profusely bleeding. If by any means I lay my hands on any RPG, Wike, Buratai and their family members would be history.

I hate intimidation and injustice.

Balogunodua:

The guy is not Igbo..he is an Edo coward whose mother has been trafficked to Italy for everlasting prostitution...

Okoroawusa:
They will not see this one and talk. Their eyes dey for Lagos.

Una go blind

Balogunodua:

The guy is not Igbo..he is an Edo coward whose mother has been trafficked to Italy for everlasting prostitution...

gidgiddy:
How can we claim to be in a democracy but the Army arrests hundreds of civilians in Rivers state, flies them all the way to Niger state where they are held without trial?

What sort of country is this? Is this democracy or military rule?

gidgiddy:
How can we claim to be in a democracy but the Army arrests hundreds of civilians in Rivers state, flies them all the way to Niger state where they are held without trial?

What sort of country is this? Is this democracy or military rule?