oyeelams: Which one be squatters these are most likely indigenous people, why chase them from their land?
Majority are from other states and you have a large Hausa community. You also have businesses like motor mechanics who take up most of the space,
Sad for them but the main issue for the government is security. Most of the robbery and violence that takes place on that axis can be linked to residents of these shantytown and Pako houses.
Zikojukwu: I have to avoid replying paid agents like Udele because of their inability to advance logical arguments. They live on lies and driving propaganda machines of evil governments provided they eat. Their conscience is so dead that even if their parents are slaughtered by those freed Fulanis ravaging plateau, Benue, Kaduna etc, they don't care. How would I start arguing with pigs for God's sake?
Mazi Kanu and IPOB live on lies and propaganda. That's their recruitment fuel and what sustains their monthly contributions.
To even begin to deny that IPOB's military wing is behind the killings in the SE is pure madness. But not surprising since their supreme leader himself is not well. The same one spreading rumours that Buhari is dead and buried in Saudi Arabia.
Why We’re Helping Nigeria Rehabilitate Repentant Terrorists – US
The United States Government says it is assisting Nigeria in rehabilitating repentant terrorists as part of a broader joint Nigeria and US strategy to counter violent extremism.
The US Embassy to Nigeria said this in response to an email by Saturday PUNCH on Friday.
It said it was assisting Nigeria through the International Organisation for Migration.
The email read in part, “The US government assists the Government of Nigeria’s Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme through the International Organisation for Migration – which supports Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor programme to carry out DDRR of repentant and eligible ex-combatants who were formerly affiliated with a terrorist organisation.”
It said the 601 repentant terrorists who recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe State had not yet been re-integrated into society.
The US said the repentant terrorists would be reintegrated in batches in the near future.
The email further read, “According to our understanding, 601 individuals who were formerly affiliated with a terrorist organisation recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor last month following successful completion of the de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme in Gombe Camp.
“We understand that these men have not been released to communities yet and are still awaiting transfer to a rehabilitation centre in Maiduguri. They are to be transferred in batches in the very near future.
“The United States has supported Nigeria’s efforts toward effective disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of former affiliates as an important element of the broader joint Nigerian and US strategy to counter violent extremism.”
A large section of Nigerians had condemned the plan of the Federal Government to reintegrate repentant terrorists into society while millions of victims of terrorism remain displaced. The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jatau, had told Sunday PUNCH in July that only about 10 per cent of the repentant terrorists were actually fighters while the rest were either children or accomplices.
unbitchable: Gej hired foreign mercenaries to deal a huge blow on bokoharam to the disgust of northern elites who were pushing for amnesty for bokoharam. Buhari even came out to say "a fight against bokoharam is a fight against the north & he also advocated amnesty similar to ND militants. Buhari is only executing the agenda . Gej arrested and prosecuted kabiru sokoto and many other terrorist members until buhari came to release them.
List the many other's prosecuted by GEJ in addition to Kabiru Sokoto. Just post one article as proof.
Nigeria convicts 205 Boko Haram suspects in mass trials
By Reuters Staff FEBRUARY 19, 201810:54 PMUPDATED 3 YEARS AGO
ABUJA (Reuters) - More than 200 people have been convicted in Nigeria on charges related to their involvement with militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the justice ministry said on Monday.
The convictions of 205 people in mass trials mark the conclusion of the second stage of the country’s biggest legal challenge to Boko Haram, which began an insurgency in 2009 aimed at creating an Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria.
“Most of them were convicted for professing to belong to the terrorist group, (or) concealing information about the group which they knew or believe to be of material assistance that could lead to the arrest, prosecution or conviction of Boko Haram members,” the justice ministry said in a statement.
Jail terms ranged from three to 60 years, said the ministry.
It also said a total of 526 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram had been released for rehabilitation during the second stage, and said 73 cases had been adjourned.
More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes since the insurgency began.
Humanitarian groups have criticized the Nigerian authorities’ handling of some of those detained for infringing on the suspects’ rights.
Some whose cases were heard last week at a detention center in central Nigeria had been held without trial since 2010, according to the justice ministry, which added that some had been released for lack of evidence against them.
In October, the ministry said 45 people suspected of Boko Haram links had been convicted and jailed. A further 468 suspects were discharged and 28 suspects were remanded for trial in Abuja or Minna.
unbitchable: I'm not interested in your junks. Truth is, all terrorists that were jailed by Gej have all been released by buhari. Have you ever seen one terrorist prosecuted by buhari?
Ndo, I know you are a bit upset. The truth hurts.
GEJ granted amnesty to Boko Haram terrorists. GEJ paid $500m to Boko Haram middlemen. And nobody has heard of those you claim he jailed.
unbitchable: No sensible person takes serously a propaganda from this govt. During Gej admin, we saw a live coverage of court proceedings but no single terrorist has been charged to court since buhari became president.
Nigeria convicts 205 Boko Haram suspects in mass trials
By Reuters Staff FEBRUARY 19, 201810:54 PMUPDATED 3 YEARS AGO
ABUJA (Reuters) - More than 200 people have been convicted in Nigeria on charges related to their involvement with militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the justice ministry said on Monday.
The convictions of 205 people in mass trials mark the conclusion of the second stage of the country’s biggest legal challenge to Boko Haram, which began an insurgency in 2009 aimed at creating an Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria.
“Most of them were convicted for professing to belong to the terrorist group, (or) concealing information about the group which they knew or believe to be of material assistance that could lead to the arrest, prosecution or conviction of Boko Haram members,” the justice ministry said in a statement.
Jail terms ranged from three to 60 years, said the ministry.
It also said a total of 526 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram had been released for rehabilitation during the second stage, and said 73 cases had been adjourned.
More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes since the insurgency began.
Humanitarian groups have criticized the Nigerian authorities’ handling of some of those detained for infringing on the suspects’ rights.
Some whose cases were heard last week at a detention center in central Nigeria had been held without trial since 2010, according to the justice ministry, which added that some had been released for lack of evidence against them.
In October, the ministry said 45 people suspected of Boko Haram links had been convicted and jailed. A further 468 suspects were discharged and 28 suspects were remanded for trial in Abuja or Minna.
Nigeria convicts 205 Boko Haram suspects in mass trials
By Reuters Staff FEBRUARY 19, 201810:54 PMUPDATED 3 YEARS AGO
ABUJA (Reuters) - More than 200 people have been convicted in Nigeria on charges related to their involvement with militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the justice ministry said on Monday.
The convictions of 205 people in mass trials mark the conclusion of the second stage of the country’s biggest legal challenge to Boko Haram, which began an insurgency in 2009 aimed at creating an Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria.
“Most of them were convicted for professing to belong to the terrorist group, (or) concealing information about the group which they knew or believe to be of material assistance that could lead to the arrest, prosecution or conviction of Boko Haram members,” the justice ministry said in a statement.
Jail terms ranged from three to 60 years, said the ministry.
It also said a total of 526 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram had been released for rehabilitation during the second stage, and said 73 cases had been adjourned.
More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes since the insurgency began.
Humanitarian groups have criticized the Nigerian authorities’ handling of some of those detained for infringing on the suspects’ rights.
Some whose cases were heard last week at a detention center in central Nigeria had been held without trial since 2010, according to the justice ministry, which added that some had been released for lack of evidence against them.
In October, the ministry said 45 people suspected of Boko Haram links had been convicted and jailed. A further 468 suspects were discharged and 28 suspects were remanded for trial in Abuja or Minna.
KosiGee: IPOB members are arrested, transferred to the north and killed. Some of them know nothing about IPOB or Biafra struggles.
Some are tied up and shot in the cells. Are these people different kind of prisoners?
More Boko Haram members have been killed by the Nigerian army than ESN/Unknown Gunmen. I don't know where IPOB members have been transferred to the North and killed. You guys can fool your followers and it doesn't add any value to your agitation. They are pure lies to deceive the gullible.
If any IPOB member surrender to the authorities, they will be treated as a prisoner of war.
Paretomaster1: The North don't support BH, and Bandits..... Don't type like a sens*ele*ss being....
Like every criminal entity, some people might benefit from it proceed, but to say North support BH, & BANDITS shows how narrow minded, and tribalistic you are....
IPOB/ESN/UGM,BH,BANDITS are all criminals that need to be dealt with..... IGBOHO doesn't fall into these category yet, that's y d government is trying to nip it in the bud.
President Goodluck Jonathan has declared amnesty for members of the Boko Haram sect.
Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna, disclosed this on Thursday at a special event, “A day with young leaders of Nigeria”, to mark the 15th anniversary of the fourth republic.
Jonathan attended the event, which was held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Haruna said: “President Goodluck Jonathan has declared amnesty for members of the Boko Haram sect. A series of integration programmes have been lined up for the members of the sect who would surrender their arms and embrace peace.
“Let me use this opportunity on behalf of the federal government to call on the members of the Boko Haram sect to embrace the government’s gesture and key into amnesty programme.”
Haruna was once governor of Adamawa, one of the states currently affected by the insurgency.
His pronouncement appears to be a further explanation of the presidential broadcast earlier in the day.
Jonathan had, in his speech, promised to pursue “all options” to end the insurgency ─ announcing that the doors of his government were open to dialogue.
He also spoke about “de-radicalisation, rehabilitation and re-integration into the broader society”.
Tinubuadvocate: Tell us the agitation of Geneva conventions
I am sure you can read and google is your friend.
In not too many words, those killers are classified as prisoners of war and have rights. If you kill them when they surrender without proper judicial process, you would be committing a serious crime - War Crimes. And prisoner swap, amnesty has been used by all armies of the world from the first world war until date to end wars.
I don't support it and would have wished they were all killed but once they surrender, your hands are tied.
Racoon: [s][/s] Jonathan meant them well though the north used these BH terrorists(they have now added bandits and Fulani militias to the list) to fight the then government. Mind you, former president Jonathan never show any avid affection and support to the BH religious fanaticism and radicalism as members of this govt have done even they enter government.So be guided with your warped delusional allegation.
But he still released them from prison and stopped the army from killing them. He even set up a committee for amnesty for Boko Haram fighters.
Amnesty video seems to show Nigeria troops slitting Boko Haram suspects' throats
By Tim Cocks AUGUST 5, 2014
LAGOS (Reuters) - Footage obtained by human rights group Amnesty International and released on Tuesday appears to show Nigerian soldiers slitting the throats of Boko Haram suspects and dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
Nigeria’s military is battling an increasingly vicious Islamist insurgency by Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria. But its forces frequently come repeatedly under fire for human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial killings they usually deny.
It was not possible to independently verify the video, which also includes images of suspects being pulled off the back of trucks and beaten by soldiers and allied civilian militias.
Amnesty said the extrajudicial killings occurred shortly after Boko Haram’s attack on a detention center in Giwa Barracks, in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, on March 14.
Nigerian Defence spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade, who normally bristles at suggestions of abuses by Nigerian soldiers, said in at statement that “the military authorities view these grave allegations very seriously.
“Much as the scenes depicted in this video are alien to our operations and doctrines, it has to be investigated to ensure that such practices have not crept, surreptitiously, into the system,” Olukolade said.
He emphasized that such behavior would be counter to the training Nigerian troops are given.
“That level of barbarism and impunity has no place in the Nigerian military. Respect for the sanctity of life is always boldly emphasized in our doctrinal training,” he said.
In the most gruesome of the videos, suspects are kept to one side while graves are dug. Then the grave is shown half-full of bodies. A half-naked man is pulled from a truck and held down while a man in military uniform slices his neck open with a combat knife, hurling his body into the pit. The scene is repeated with another suspect on the same bloodied patch at the edge of grave.
The footage comes a week after Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video of his fighters beheading a Nigerian soldier -- a standard practice for the militants. Amnesty’s report also shows the aftermath of a Boko Haram attack on a village that the rights group said had killed 100 people.
Amnesty said 4,000 people had been killed in the conflict this year.
A military operation since May last year has aimed to crush the rebels. But they have proved remarkably resilient and have struck back in attacks that increasingly target the civilian population, killing hundreds.
“This shocking new evidence is further proof of the appalling crimes being committed with abandon by all sides in the conflict ... what does it say when members of the military carry out such unspeakable acts and capture the images on film?” said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s secretary general.
“Numerous testimonies we have gathered suggest that extrajudicial executions are, in fact, regularly carried out by the Nigerian military,” she added.
Rights groups argue that such acts by the military are not only wrong but counter-productive, as they fuel much of the anger that has helped drive the insurgency over the past five years. It is also a primary reason cited by U.S. and British forces for not giving Nigeria more counter-insurgency support.
Boko Haram was a largely non-violent clerical movement against Western culture until the killing of its founder, Mohammed Yusuf, in police custody transformed it into a full- scale armed rebellion.
Olukolade said forensic experts would study the footage “in order to ascertain the veracity of the claims with a view to identifying those behind such acts. This will ... stimulate necessary legal action against any personnel or anyone found culpable in accordance with the provisions of the law.”
Tinubuadvocate: Jonathan laid a bad precedence. There's no rational explanation for their action according to our constitution a killer shouldn't be pardoned .
Study the Geneva Conventions. Those killers are classified as prisoners of war.
Why We’re Helping Nigeria Rehabilitate Repentant Terrorists – US
The United States Government says it is assisting Nigeria in rehabilitating repentant terrorists as part of a broader joint Nigeria and US strategy to counter violent extremism.
The US Embassy to Nigeria said this in response to an email by Saturday PUNCH on Friday.
It said it was assisting Nigeria through the International Organisation for Migration.
The email read in part, “The US government assists the Government of Nigeria’s Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme through the International Organisation for Migration – which supports Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor programme to carry out DDRR of repentant and eligible ex-combatants who were formerly affiliated with a terrorist organisation.”
It said the 601 repentant terrorists who recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe State had not yet been re-integrated into society.
The US said the repentant terrorists would be reintegrated in batches in the near future.
The email further read, “According to our understanding, 601 individuals who were formerly affiliated with a terrorist organisation recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor last month following successful completion of the de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme in Gombe Camp.
“We understand that these men have not been released to communities yet and are still awaiting transfer to a rehabilitation centre in Maiduguri. They are to be transferred in batches in the very near future.
“The United States has supported Nigeria’s efforts toward effective disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of former affiliates as an important element of the broader joint Nigerian and US strategy to counter violent extremism.”
A large section of Nigerians had condemned the plan of the Federal Government to reintegrate repentant terrorists into society while millions of victims of terrorism remain displaced. The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jatau, had told Sunday PUNCH in July that only about 10 per cent of the repentant terrorists were actually fighters while the rest were either children or accomplices.
US still selling weapons to Nigeria despite rights abuse –Amnesty
Meanwhile, rights group, Amnesty International, says the US Government has continued to sell weapons to Nigeria despite the rights abuses being perpetrated by the Nigerian military.
The Deputy Director for Advocacy and Government Relations for Amnesty International USA, Adotei Akwei, said this in an email interview with The PUNCH.
In January 2019, Akwei had written a letter to the foreign relations committees in the US Congress calling for the implementation of the Leahy Law in Nigeria due to the high number of human rights abuses by the Nigerian military.
The Leahy Law is an American human rights law that prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defence from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.
However, Akwei told The PUNCH that one year after Amnesty wrote the letter, the US authorities had continued to sell weapons to Nigeria in contravention of the Leahy Law.
He said the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), had failed to address human rights violations.
Responding to a question, he said, “The short answer is no, we have not seen the Buhari government implement any form of credible accountability for human rights violations committed by the Nigerian security forces since we sent our letter and we have not seen the USG (US Government) take the necessary action of enforcing the Leahy Law in response to the continued impunity being enjoyed by the Nigerian security forces.”
Akwei had in a letter signed on behalf of Amnesty said the Nigerian military was fond of attacking unarmed civilians.
I am sure some people are shocked? Well, don't be surprised. As bad as it sounds, you are not allowed to kill prisoners of war who surrender. That is international law - Geneva Conventions
agbo8: Reno is so right on this but I detest him because he deliberately manipulates lots of gullible Nigerians against the government by ignoring the full picture and telling half truths solely to score political points.
Those who know him should please tell him not all issues can be politicized.
I wonder if he ever called his paymaster Goodluck Jonathan Oloriburuku man?
Emergingnation: Can you prove IPOB are the one that killed her ,
Can you show us the evidence...
Your lies and propaganda end here on Nairaland...
It’s funny how IPOB keep denying their crimes. They want others to believe Herdsmen are killing their people but want to deny knowledge of ESN/Unknown gunmen killings? As long as sensible people know the truth, you guys can continue to plead innocence till the cows come home.
Pierocash: Igbos stand with Nnamdi Kanu except few saboteurs in Public office. You think if the major stake holders in Igbo land aren't behind Kanu ,the fulanis would killed him the way they did to Gana in Benue.
The atrocities been committed by security forces in the east is by the approval of the governors and not the President.
No true Igbo elder that doesn't support Kanu. 5 South East governors are too insignificant
You are comparing Kanu to Gana; a murderer, kidnapper, mercenary and armed robber? You can’t be serious.
CodeTemplar: Even your moniker is like BMC with a slight typo...so mine isn't a fact and it is your audio assault news that contradicts other news that's a fact.
Like I said, you can believe what you want to believe. It doesn't change the FACT. The same way IPOBians and their supporters are complaining about government attacks, is the same way bandits and their supporters are complaining. As long as all enemies of state are being dealt with in the language that they understand, its all cushty. The only one I am not happy about is the treatment of Herdsmen killers.
CodeTemplar: Those news of bombardments are just news and nothing more If not, why will they glamourize IPOB that's tagged a terrorist group and not glanourize successes against another terrorist group? Use your kidney.
You can choose to believe what suits your agenda. If you beleive Boko Haram and Bandits are not being killed, that's your problem. It doesn't change the FACT!
Grgton: Oga everything about tax should go to the states and LGAs.. not the way round. This is a federal system for God's sake.
How can you be distributing resources that can be used to make my state better to another place... As if oil revenue they are getting isn't enough.
You first need to understand which taxes are collected by the States and which by the FG, to be able to contribute to the discussion.
90% of taxes are collected by the state and local governments.
FG Corporation Tax from companies VAT Petroleum profits tax Education tax PAYE for Armed Forces, NPF, Abuja Residents, Staff of ministry of foreign Affairs
States Personal Tax (PAYE) Capital gains tax Withholding tax (individuals only) Pools betting and lotteries, gaming and casino taxes Business premises registration fee Road taxes Development levy Right of Occupancy fees Naming of street registration fees in the State Capital Market taxes and levies where State finance is involved
Local Governments Shops and kiosks rates Tenement rates Slaughter slab fees Marriage, birth and death registration fees Naming of street registration fee, excluding any street in the State Capital Right of Occupancy fees on lands in rural areas, excluding those collectable by the Federal and State Governments Market taxes and levies excluding any market where State finance is involved Motor park levies Bicycle, truck. canoe, wheelbarrow and cart fees, other than a mechanically propelled truck Cattle tax payable by cattle farmers only Merriment and road closure levy Radio and television licence fees (other than radio and television transmitter) Vehicle radio licence fees (to be imposed by the Local Government of the State in which the car is registered) Public convenience, sewage and refuse disposal fees Customary burial ground permit fees Signboard and Advertisement permit fees Religious places establishment permit fees Slaughter slab fees On and Off Liquor Licence fees Domestic animal licence fees
...and the total of VAT is much less than the total of all other taxes collected by states and local governments.
...and the same states and local government shares the VAT with the FG.
mrvitalis: First there is no official biafra flag for now
Second IPOB is not fighting for biafra ( at least for now ), IPOB is asking for Eastern regions should be given referendum to determine if they want to be in Nigeria or not
The people who decide to leave would sit and decide how the new nation would look and work
So what about the Biafra Map that Kanu and IPOB released on their social media pages so many times?
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these are most likely indigenous people, why chase them from their land?
