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[size=14pt]Extra-Judicial killings: 7,198 suspects killed in four years[/size]

From PAUL OSUYI, Asaba
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

A non-governmental organization, the Centre for Victims of Extra-Judicial Killings and Torture (CVEKT) Africa, has raised the alarm over the rising cases of reckless use of arms by security agents resulting in extra-judicial deaths.

CVEKT referring to a report by Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), said the reckless use of arms has resulted in 7,198 extra-judicial deaths in four years across the country.

Executive Director of CVEKT, Rev. Fr. Tony Amarube made this known in Asaba, Delta state while welcoming participants to the sixth CVEKT Annual National Lecture Series with the theme “Nigeria: Sustaining Functional Democracy and the Challenge of Armed Insurgency.”

Fr. Amarube lamented that the police always rely on Order 237 of the Nigeria Police Force “which permits officer to shoot any suspect and detainees trying to escape or avoid arrest as an excuse for committing extra-judicial killing with impunity.”

According to him, the NOPRIN report has it that “authorities generally did not hold police accountable for the use of excessive or deadly force or for the deaths of persons in custody. When investigation did occur, they were not thoroughly done. Officers suspected of extra-judicial execution generally are sent away on training or transferred to other states instead of being prosecuted. Police often claimed that the victim was an armed robber killed in an exchange of gunfire or suspected killed while trying to escape from police custody.”
Fr. Amarube also decried senseless massacre of innocent Nigerians, even as he condemned in strong terms the activities of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and called on the presidency to be pro-active in tackling the security challenge of arm insurgency.

He advised that security agents should be allowed to do their work without undue interference from the Senate in respect to the on-going investigation of a senator accused of rendering support to Boko Haram.
The Executive Director also urged the judiciary to be alive to its watchman in the polityand challenged governments at all levels and National Assembly members of the responsibility of meeting the constitutional requirements of power to govern.

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who declared the workshop open, said Delta state abhors the menace of armed crimes such as robbery, kidnapping, militancy, religious uprising, youth restiveness and all acts of terrorism.
Represented by the state Attorney-Deneral and Commissioner for Justice, Charles Ajuyah (SAN), Dr. Uduaghan described the experiences of armed robbery, assassination, militancy and other acts of senseless killing of innocent citizens as “pockets of criminal activities.”

He tasked stakeholders not to leave the campaign against political violence, extra-judicial killings and torture and other related crimes in the hand of NGOs.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/nov/29/national-29-11-2011-007.html

Remii:
I see, but the better way would have been through dialogue, referendum type like it happened in the case of Pakistan from India, Southern Cameroon from Nigeria, Czech and Slovakia from Czechoslovakia and recently to Southern Sudan. UN should have been involved and Biafra would have been protected. Every unilateral declaration of independence leads to war

you are right about the possiblity of peaceful separation, but each of the countries are different. there was serious crisis in india/pakistan. nigeria could have done same peacefully but gowon was under the control of violent members of the northern nigeria. there was aburi which was signed and agreed but gowon failed to implement it. everything pointed to the north wanting to take power by force. the only way war would have been avoided was for the east to act like the west (yoruba) which is to bow down and allow the north to have its way. of course that didn't happen because igbo said no. the issues are still where they were in 1967.

Akan:
@ Alhaja  

You should ask Akwa Ibomites what they think of the Igbos b4 u try to create  alliances that does not exist

are you from akwa ibom state? i know you are not.
you can claim all you like. you are not. if you are, then you are the biggest fool on nairaland because you don't even know about your own history.

Remii:
please explain highlighted portion. I thought Ojukwu declared independence or secession of Eastern region from Nigeria then took up the name Biafra, what do you call that?

it is called self determination which is guaranteed by international law. did you see a gun in ojukwu's hand when he read out the resolution of the eastern nigerian house?
gowon lunched the war by attacking nsukka area

ezeagu:
Again, reasoning. Biafra wasn't in the offensive, they were in the defensive. Japan were invading and planning to invade much of Asia. Biafra didn't even start a war. This analogy doesn't even fit, because Nigeria was supposedly fighting for their citizens in the east.

i guess it is citizenship by force. have you ever seen a forced marriage that worked?
the least that would happen is that the woman will definitely have children by a man of her own choosing, while the husband keeps the empty shell image of man of the house. only a woman knows the true father of her kids. at the end of the day, the man dies and the children of other men inherits him whether he likes it or not. a truly sad certainty.  are igbos nigerians even today? i doubt that. it is only a matter of time before nigeria dies and will be inheritted by igbos still.

i really wonder what yourbas are doing on this thread. if you don't respect the man, the best is to not post here.
you are giving yourselves heart attack.

@post

i think he should be mourned by all former easterners. my 2 cents tho

RIP the man who saw tomorrow. may God grant your soul deserved repose. your legacy speaks for you.
a true legend.

alhj harem creates hundreds of user name and has about 5 computers he is posting from, claiming to be from all the strategic parts of biafra. he even claims to be from anambra state. shameless hedddiiiot.

alj_harem:
F u

The igbos on nairaland said Akwa Ibom, rivers, cross river, balysea  are all part of utopia Nigeria community call Baifra

Anyway what encounter have you had with the yorubas and the igbos to think they one is a coward and ther other  untrustworthy respectively ?

Don't you think it is a bit dumb to generalise based on what YOU precieve ?

yes they are. if you doubt me, look at how their region is savaged by nigeria just like igboland.

Remii:
^^^^ why is Phillip Effiong the deputy to Ojukwu?

he is not from Akwa Ibom state. he is another yoruba man

htajz:
who is you igbos ? you think am a confused goatie like you?ijaws were divided like many other southern groups , adaka boro had his own plans only God know what he was promised, some believed the northern dominated nigeria was more evil while other were told  that ojukwu was out to dominate them and take their land(which sounds ridiculous) . i cant say which side had more ijaws but we have all learn our lesson cause whatever adka boro fough for he did not live to see it niether are the ijaws seeing it.

i hope so o! the lesson is very clear.

go to the worst part of this world, you will see an igboman making money there. we are getting tired jare.
they are not the only ones needing money. moreover they need to develop their own land.

Then one day, a man came back from the North, talked to his mum to let him join him in the North but the mum refused.

the man that came back from the north may have been lving there for decades according to current story making rounds. these are the type that die there. i just hope they don't continue to go east to take young ones.

Obiagu1:
I'll only talk briefly about those I witnessed while growing up in Enugu. I had some of my childhood friends move up North under circumstances beyond them. I'll talk about one. He lost his dad when was like 14. They were already very poor and can't find food to eat, then imagine what life would be without his dad and only a sit-at-home mum to take care of them. He was the first kid. No one, not a single person, helped them. He couldn't go to school any more and at that age became the father in the house. How could he survive seeing his younger ones without food for a whole day. I know this because he always came to my house to eat and complained all the time.
Then one day, a man came back from the North, talked to his mum to let him join him in the North but the mum refused. The boy simply told his mum that his life ended when he lost his dad, she still have two sons and that she should forget about him. If he dies in the North, she should bare it but if he succeeds, then his younger ones would have life. He took the risk and moved up North, completed his training, started his own business and changed the family. All his siblings are doing good today but would have been useless or even armed robbers today, if not for the risk the little boy took.

good story but doesn't answer the question. i bet you he is still there and probably has brought his younger ones over there. why didn't he return to the east or somewhere south for his own safety? one day now you'll hear he has been killed in the noth.

ezeagu:
Enugu is empty, Owerri is just rising small now, there's hardly any formal business in Onitsha, Asaba is okay, all the other towns are dead, all because people are moving to other regions. I wonder if they witness the same competition in population 30m Igboland the same as tiny Lagos city with population 20m, or Kano with population 2m. There's hardly even a proper Igbo town with more than 1 million people. Western Igboland itself probably has a population density that's comparable with most northern states.

And are there any images of Igboland that can attest to this fact? Have the Igbo developed their own lands?

answer is capital NO.

redsun:
The igbos bring light to darkness,they colonize places that needs commercialization and make the people see that there are services to offer and monies to make.

Nigeria is too small to cage the igbos.

agree, which is why i don't understand how someone can live in the most hostile part of nigeria not to talk of the world. there are other places that are more peaceful in this world. why north?

From the Senate came the gloomy news yesterday that the financial accounts of 27 states are in the red as some of them have been declared either “distressed” or “gloomy.” Only Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Jigawa states were given a clean bill of health. The six states that are in financial distress are: Kano, Sokoto, Niger, Zamfara, Katsina and Osun.
Those deemed critical are: Ekiti, Plateau, Benue, Edo, Borno, Adamawa, Cross River, Enugu, Taraba, Ogun, Kogi, Yobe, Ebonyi, Ondo and Kaduna.

In the unhealthy cadre are: Oyo, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Nasarawa, Gombe and Rivers while Imo, Kwara, Lagos, Kebbi and Delta were given the ‘tolerable’ tag. The data was sourced from the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Labour Policy Report, 2011 as contained in a motion titled: Looming danger of bankruptcy in states: The need for fiscal evaluation, sponsored by Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi (ACN, Ekiti North).

To forestall the looming catastrophe, the Senate advised the Federal Government to expeditiously review the revenue sharing formula in favour of states and local governments. The Upper Legislative Chamber also directed its Committees on Finance, National Planning; States and Local Governments to study the situation and submit remedial measures to avoid total collapse of the economy of the affected states. Senator Adetunmbi had alerted the Senate of the “great fiscal challenge and looming danger of insolvency as well as bankruptcy facing the states as a result of growing wage-bill associated with the implementation of the minimum wage and other recurrent responsibilities of the states.

“A recent research by the NGF revealed that 20 states face the prospect of unstable and unfavourable financial standing, given the high percentage of their wage-bills to the total revenue accruable to them. Armed with the data, Adetunmbi noted that in most states, the private sector is weak and unable to generate economic growth and jobs that are required, thereby making the states and local governments the largest employers of labour with attendant fiscal imbalance.

“The bulk of the revenue of these states is currently financing payroll of the civil service which constitutes less than 4% of the total population in all states; if this trend continues, many of the states would become financially insolvent and increasingly handicapped to finance real sectors and drive economic growth, job and improved livelihoods,” he said.

He told the Senate that “most state governments now rush to the capital market to raise long-term bonds to finance development projects”, which if misused, would spell doom for their future and the financial quagmire of states.
Some of the state governments that have taken this route of funding between 2002 and 2011 are: Lagos (series 1-N50bn; series II-N57.5bn), Imo (N18.5bn); Kwara (N17bn); Niger (N6bn); Bayelsa (N50bn); Kaduna (N8.5bn); Ebonyi (N16.5bn); Ogun (N50bn); Delta (N5bn) in 2007); Kebbi (N3.5bn) in 2006; Lagos (N15bn) in 2002 and Yobe (N2.5bn) in 2002.

Adetunmbi called for urgency in the review of the revenue sharing structure among the federal states and local governments in view of the “financial quagmire” of affected states. Contributing, Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba, canvassed a merger of states and slammed the practice of state governments going cap in hand to Abuja for revenue, adding that, “there is federalism more in name than in practice.”

Also, Chairman of the Niger Delta Committee, Senator James Manager, re-echoed the call for merger of states and asserted that “all the states are distressed. Something has to be done. So many states are not supposed to be states because they have nothing to offer, they are burdens on Nigeria. Those not viable should be merged with the viable ones, hence, the imperativeness of fiscal federalism.”

Minority Whip Ganiyu Solomon noted that the revenue formula is long overdue for review, adding that there was too much concentration of power at the centre. Corroborating Solomon, Senator Ahmed Lawan submitted that the states were not getting their own fair share of the revenue, stressing, “it is totally unfair that the Federal Government should continue to get 53 per cent; it is not justifiable”.

Senator Sola Adeyeye queried the rationale for having “a Federal Ministry of Agriculture when there are no federal farms; communication, aviation, industry and housing when all the properties have been sold to the private sector.”
Thereafter, senators canvassed a review of the sharing formula from the Federation Account to further enrich the states and local governments as well as compelling the Federal Government to transfer some of its responsibilities to the lower tiers of government.


http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/oct/28/newsbreak-28-10-2011-001.html

leaving your own land exposes you to unfair treatment

at the end of the day it is still igbos whether their governors or migrants.
we are tired of all these blame game
igbos should go home and hold their governors accountable.

i think that governorss in igboland should also be blamed
they need to deevlop more infrastructure

i don't think anambra is on that list

^
they ended up in the north because they wanted to

^^

i totally agree.

Dora akunyili

igbos should stay home. igbos in particular should not be killed in the north even if others are. no non-northen group have died in the north like the igbos. they should be ashamed for always returning there. igboland is not afghanistan.

Dora Akunyili

Francis-1:
Also, non-indigenes from states outside the South-East zone were being considered for reinstatement. [/b]A committee headed by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Umeh Kalu, with membership drawn from top civil servants reviewed the exercise.

[b]However, apart from this group, the government insisted that all others from the Southeast states of Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo should go.

The committee said it reviewed the disengagement exercise “reciprocally”, meaning that states that had not earlier disengaged Abia indigenes from their civil service would not have their sacked indigenes reinstated.

and the saga continues. it seem orji is more interested in punishing fellow igbos than others. he is silent on non-SE states that targeted Abians in the past.

those tracks look old! is it me or is it recycled tracks. i don't think this is the monorail project. it may be nigeria railway corporation laying their old tracks

how can nigeria be one with this type of thing happening at every turn. i pity those laughing at igbos

i even think that Igbo is more niger deltan than itsekiri. if you doubt me look at the niger delta ethnic map of nigeria.

htajz:
your very dumb, oya niger delta 101 ,name all the ethnic groups found in the niger delta?

ok ok lets assume your refering to old niger delta that rivers,delta and bayelsa still name all the ethnic groups found there then tell me why i should not mention niger delta here

he can't
his own definition of niger delta is minus Igbo plus itsekiri. some nigerians have serious mental issues

even sef appoint Arunma Oteh if she is interested. she will kick some butts.
she won't do it because it is not worth the trouble. she is already rich.