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| Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by meavox(op): 9:26am On Jul 27, 2020 |
Copied from a WhatsApp post. Do consider copying and forwarding via your own WhatsApp and other social media. ============================================================================== CAN WE CALL NIGERIA A COUNTRY? CAN WE? Nigeria is a pressure cooker of injustice – that is how UN envoy described it in August 2019. Added to all that the UN envoy described at the time (see below) is we now also have a massive ongoing genocide of indigenous Middle Belt people by Fulani herdsmen to grab their ancestral lands. Nigerian news media are too frightened to report it. But foreign organisations are talking about this genocide. (Google it) In August 2019 the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial and Arbitrary Executions, Agnes Callamard, has expressed concern over the high rate of extra-judicial killings in the country. This is what she said: “Overall situation that I encountered in Nigeria gives rise to EXTREME CONCERN. By many measures, the federal authorities and the international partners are presiding over an INJUSTICE-PRESSURE COOKER. Some of the specific contexts I examined are simmering. “The warning signs are flashing bright red: increased numbers of attacks and killings over the last five years, with a few notable exceptions; increased criminality and spreading insecurity; widespread failure by the federal authorities to investigate and hold perpetrators to account, even for mass killing. “A lack of public trust and confidence in the judicial institutions and state institutions more generally; high levels of resentment and grievances within and between communities; toxic ethno-religious narratives and ‘extremist’ ideologies, characterised by dehumanisation of the ‘others’ and denial of the legitimacy of the others’ claims; a generalised break down of the rule of law, with particularly acute consequences for the most vulnerable and impoverished populations of Nigeria…. They are claiming the lives of thousands and include, for instance, arbitrary killings in the context of the military conflict in the North of the country, against Boko Haram and splinter groups; the conflict in the Middle Belt, along with some parts in the North West and South, between Fulani herdsmen and farming communities belonging to various ethnic groups; cultism in the oil-producing South-South states and other well-organised criminal gangs; local militias engaged in mining and cattle rustling in the North West, particularly Zamfara; the repression of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP…” Can we call Nigeria a “country”? CAN WE? Any person from anywhere and of any social position who thinks that after 60 years of trying to make Nigeria a country, and still wants us to keep trying is deceiving the youths. Check it out. That person’s children and even grandchildren must be safe abroad. That person too will be holding 10 year visa for abroad or similar quick escape route. Check it out! That person will not want his own children in this Nigeria that he deceives you still needs more time to get better. Check it out! Tell such a one to BRING BACK his children to this Nigeria that he so tells you can be made better! Nigeria? We are done with it! Dissolution is Nigeria’s solution! SOURCE OF QUOTED MATERIAL: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/un-expresses-concern-over-high-rate-of-extra-judicial-killings-in-nigeria/ |
| Re: Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by projecttopics2: 9:27am On Jul 27, 2020 |
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| Re: Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by haryorbarmie83(m): 9:29am On Jul 27, 2020 |
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| Re: Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by realstars: 9:30am On Jul 27, 2020 |
The Law Makers Has The Answer To This Question, And They Murt Answer It For Us. Oya Lets Ask Them Again.
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| Re: Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by meavox(op): 9:36am On Jul 27, 2020 |
realstars:Why do you give SOVEREIGNTY to politicians? Sovereignty is with the people! Here's what I copied from a recent Tweet: "Africans have yet to see that SOVEREIGNTY is with the people not with politicians...And that government is supposed to manage the country for them. Just as managers manage a company for its owners...In Africa the managers have taken over from the owners. And the owners accept it." Learn this well my friend. Then tell others too. "We the people" are the owners. The politicians are just the managers we contracted to manage the country for us. That's all. They abuse us by when being managers they take over from us the owners, then give us rubbish to eat. |
| Re: Can We Call Nigeria A Country? Can We? by realstars: 10:40am On Jul 27, 2020 |
meavox:Why I Said They Are With "The Answers" Is To Ask Them Again Which Of The Law Is Above The Law That Will Be Against The Law They Have Faild To Keep. We Send Them There And We Needed Them To Do The Needful, But They Faild. Then If They Fail To Answer, Then We May Fave The Answer For Them. And Go Our Own Way. |
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