Condemns invasion of NUJ Office in Abia State

Calls ICC to investigate military abuses By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA-A United States of America based human rights group called “Rapid Response Fact-Finding Mission (RRFFM)” has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately withdraw troops from the south-east zone of the country.

The group also told the President to consult with the various state governors in the region on the necessity or otherwise of military operations and deployment of soldiers in the area.

The United Kingdom is providing expert training to the Nigerian military in helping to develop the skills necessary to tackle the terror threat of Boko Haram in North East Nigeria. Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency began in 2009 and has killed at least 20,000 and forced more than 2.6 million from their homes. / AFP RRFFM also urged the International Criminal Court, ICC to investigate alleged cases of human rights abuses meted out to the people.

The calls followed a field investigation conducted by the group in the aftermath of the military invasion of the home of the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu Umuahia, the Abia State capital and also the deployment of soldiers to the south-east region for a military exercise code-named “Operation Python Dance 11”.

A statement signed and released by the Special Counsel Justice for Jos Project, a US/Nigeria Law Group in Washington DC seeking to end impunity in the Nigerian Genocide, Emmanuel Ogebe on Monday stated that members of the team were drawn from US and United Kingdom.

Ogebe in the statement stated that the team carried out extensive investigations into the recent crisis in the region and catergorised its recommendations as follows:

“The President of Nigeria should stand down the troops in the southeast till their mission scope is clearly defined and clarified and necessary legal benchmarks for deployment are met or better still redeploy them to northern Nigeria where on the Niger side of the border terrorists suspected to be Boko Haram killed 4 American troops last week.

“The President should consult the state governors as chief security officers of their states on the necessity or lack thereof of military deployment

“The military should apologize to and return the seized phone of a journalist “The army should desist from further acts of aggression, intimidation and rights abuses of civilians including continuing attacks on the already destroyed home of Afara Chief Kanu

“The army should identify for court martial its personnel who ransacked and man handled innocent journalists in their press center.

“The army should disclose the true casualties of its operations and provide compensation to the victims while arraigning the perpetrators

“The government of Nigeria should allow the trial of IPOB leader Kanu to continue under the established framework of the legal system instead brute military force. Failure to do so could force the further metastization into yet another insurgency which Nigeria simply cannot afford on an eastern flank

“The government should as a matter of urgency provide treatment and compensation to the victims and families in a confidential manner that does not expose them to terrorist-labeling

“The government should close the “governance gap” exemplified by infrastructure deficits at local levels that are deep drivers of discontentment and frustration in an ordinarily industrious and entrepreneurial populace.

"The international community and the Nigerian government should investigate the human rights abuses to ensure justice is done especially as the 50th memorial of the Asaba massacres is marked for which no perpetrators have been brought to book half a century after.

“The government should revisit the National Conference report that has encapsulated a lot of the institutional injustices that undermine equity and FairPlay in the Nigerian contraption

“The International Criminal Court should look into the military abuses in the southeast as part of its ongoing preliminary examination into Nigeria’s security forces.” In a similar vein, the group’s also findings implicated the Nigerian Army in the “unprovoked” attack of Journalists in Umuahia amongst others.

“In its interim report and observations, the RRFFM finds as a fact: “Personnel of the Nigerian army attacked and molested members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists during an unprovoked invasion of the journalists’ press center, destroying and confiscating journalistic equipment in September

“The Nigerian Army attacked and destroyed the home of a Chief in Amara, Umuahia who is the father of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu who lived with him also in September

“Several people were killed in Umuahia and several neighborhood homes and properties affected “Nigerian security forces engaged in reprisal attacks in Aba after IPOB members overran a military checkpoint “Several people were killed and maimed in Aba

“Suspected IPOB members stopped and searched vehicles for reprisal attacks on northerners as well as targeted house searches “Good Samaritans and the army helped hide and evacuate innocent targets including incidentally a citizen of Niger who has since fled to his own country.

“The military were not invited in by the eastern state governments and indeed the governors were already in dialogue with the separatists on their concerns “While the military presence has been scaled back from the streets and relative normalcy has been restored, the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu remains a mystery

“There appears to be a serious lack of transparency or sincerity by the army on its true mission to the southeast, casualties of its operations to the public and even to the state governments

“Suspected members of IPOB burnt a police station and attacked a mosque UPDATE “RRFFM has just received credible photos and footage of another raid on the home of Nnamdi Kanu’s family in Umuahia captured on CCTV yesterday Sunday October 8, 2017”, the statement added.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/biafra-withdraw-troops-seast-now-us-based-group-tells-buhari/

I nor fit wait for this kasala at all.

Gbege, abeg scatter ground

Nigeria is a sovereign state. US can only advice Nigeria not command.

Lol..

Lemme Wait fr BMC and Yoro-muslims

Temidayo9:
Nigeria is a sovereign state. US can only advice Nigeria not command.

The same Nigeria that doesn't respect human rights of her citizens?
We shall see then.

Give me a better excuse.

Which troops exactly is the group talking about?

The ever combatant BSS or the instrumentalists of the dancing python?

throw up biafran topic,nnamdi KANU and PDP the watch as Yoruba devour themselves I have never seen a tribe specialize so well in solving other peoples problem yet die in theirs

adeolakemi:
throw up biafran topic,nnamdi KANU and PDP the watch as Yoruba devour themselves I have never seen a tribe specialize so well in solving other peoples problem yet die in theirs

what's their problem?

action speaks louder than mere talk, let them swing into action enough of this forewarning.

laaaaal

Make I form my own 5-man group too.

omenka:
Baba you sabi the format of the hussle well!

Just as it always is during the period of elections. Once a politician visits a place, you go see men begin dey scramble to form different groups with fancy names like "Youth Vanguard for Progress", "Youths Volunteers Against Corruption", "2019 Initiative for Change Group", etc.

Some go add the name of the politician to ginger am so that him go drop better bar.

Now we have some "United States based human rights group" with no internet presence being given attention by Vanguard (iPod propaganda machine) and some gullible Potor Paralympians are already shouting "the zoo is in trouble ".

To these fool's, once you see "US" or "UK", it means you've got a "big deal" on your hands. That is what you get when you live all your life in some secluded shanty in a village. "Amelika" they usually call it.

No so dem begin dey shout the other time say their dilector King Kong dey work for jand only for us to check the company out see say over ten years, the company no get assets reach £200 After you take away liabilities.

Rapid response ni, sluggish attack ko.

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Omenka, na the gullible ipod pigs and idiots I pity the most.

Some of us in the US/UK/Canada no dey fall for this gimmick.

The think they can intimidate Nigerians with noisemaking.

some people realy think nigeria is a colony of america....what a ridiculous claim..

Temidayo9:
Nigeria is a sovereign state. US can only advice Nigeria not command.

i didnt even bothered to read the rubbish..

Temidayo9:
Nigeria is a sovereign state. US can only advice Nigeria not command.

sovereign state that still begs for alms,begs for food,,begs for weapon ,practically begs for anything and everything !!the other time it was small Jordan they turned to!!beggar that's what I Call the sovereign zoo!!and will die anytime they are left to handle their own problem,,so don't shout so loud!!

cosby02:

what's their problem?

skull mining,hunger ,ritual killings, being conquered territory,,idp camp everywhere in osun ,,still hasn't gotten Kwara back and being ruled by emir instead of Oba,,Still draging 32nd position with zamfara in WAEC result,backward education,,backstabbing, ,just to mention but a few,but they won't rest once BIAFARA topic is raised..they are shamless lots!!

sekxy:

skull mining,hunger ,ritual killings, being conquered territory,,idp camp everywhere in osun ,,still hasn't gotten Kwara back and being ruled by emir instead of Oba..they are shamless lots!!

look,pack your things and migrate to western nations......

tsdarkside:

look,pack your things and migrate to western nations......

afonja muslim spotted!!

sekxy:

afonja muslim spotted!!

ipob terrorist spotted!!...

tsdarkside:


ipob terrorist spotted!!...

a proud one at that,,atleast I'm being recognized all over the world as not being a terrorist and have not killed anyone,,unlike you and your brothers that were recorded as the most dangerous terrorist group all over the world...yes I'm a terrorist, a proud one at that

Temidayo9:
Nigeria is a sovereign state. US can only advice Nigeria not command.

This is not from the US government in the first place, anybody can say anything.
You and I can form a group here in Nigeria asking Trump to resign, is that an official opinion of the Nigerian government?

igbeke:
I nor fit wait for this kasala at all.
Gbege, abeg scatter ground

The US government never said anything

Isokowadoo:
Lol..

Lemme Wait fr BMC and Yoro-muslims

Was that an official statement from the US government?

sekxy:
afonja muslim spotted!!

Somali Jew, how far

Yyeske:
This is not from the US government in the first place, anybody can say anything.
You and I can form a group here in Nigeria asking Trump to resign, is that an official opinion of the Nigerian government?

@boki cos the world is seeing how zooish this Muslim country is ,you now claiming they are not an American group, ,so I should believe you??

Yyeske:
Somali Jew, how far

so long Somali is better than ZOO

sekxy:

a proud one at that,,atleast I'm being recognized all over the world as not being a terrorist and have not killed anyone,,unlike you and your brothers that were recorded as the most dangerous terrorist group all over the world...yes I'm a terrorist, a proud one at that

Stop beating your small chest, this is just a group talking, I could equally form a group here in Nigeria and threaten the US.
The world knows you bunch are terrorists

Yyeske:
Was that an official statement from the US government?

hahaha,,it is no longer an official statement??you must be disappointed, ,you have never seen anything yet!!

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Yyeske:
Stop beating your small chest, this is just a group talking, I could equally form a group here in Nigeria and threaten the US.
The world knows you bunch are terrorists

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hey kid,don't mention me again,,like I'm done educating your cone pyramid head..

sekxy:

@boki cos the world is seeing how zooish this Muslim country is ,you now claiming they are not an American group, ,so I should believe you??

Go form your group just like Nnamdi kanu did and tell Trump to resign

sekxy:

so long Somali is better than ZOO

Somalia is actually better than your village

Yyeske:
Simalia is actually better than your village

E pain am!!

sekxy:

hahaha,,it is no longer an official statement??you must be disappointed, ,you have never seen anything yet!!

Lol, I know you just wanted to catch some fun this morning.

sekxy:
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hey kid,don't mention me again,,like I'm done educating your cone pyramid head..

Smallie, catch some sleep and engage me later