The Nigeria Police Force has rejected Amnesty International Nigeria’s report on the alleged use of force against members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shi’ites.
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The Defence Headquarters has expressed worry that the narrative of Amnesty International in matters of national security and unity of Nigeria has continued unabated in spite of verifiable evidences to the contrary.
The News Agency of Nigeri reports that the organisation had alleged in its report on Wednesday that the police and military used deadly force against IMN members.
Amnesty International has commended the Federal Government over the trial of suspected Boko Haram terrorists, describing the ongoing trial as ”good progress for the justice sector”.
It said the Nigerian government has used enforced disappearance as a longstanding tactic to silence critics and instil fear in civilian populations facing the double threat of armed groups, including Boko Haram, and military operations against them.
Governor Ortom raised the alarm on Friday when he addressed church leaders, traditional rulers and other stakeholders in the state ahead of the 2019 elections
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja when a National Human Rights Commission delegation, led by its Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu, paid him a courtesy visit
Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola, said this while receiving the Amnesty International 2017/18 Report on: “The State of the World’s Human Rights,” and the organization’s report on women who survived Boko Haram, but were later maltreated, from its Country Director, Osai Ojigho, in Abuja.
In a statement signed by its director in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, the group said at least 1,813 people had been murdered in attacks across 17 states since January 2018, stressing that this was more than double those killed in 2017
According to him, it is a report that contains details of alleged inhuman and degrading treatments of women in the Northeast IDPs camps.
The Senate’s decision was sequel to a point of order raised by Senator Shehu Sani, who expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the Presidency to the allegations by Amnesty International.
NAN recalls that AI had in its latest report alleged that Nigerian soldiers raped thousands of women and girls who escaped from the Boko Haram insurgents.
Parliament voted on Thursday for the law proposed by the centre-right government which said face veils were contrary to Danish values.
The SEMA Chairperson in the state, Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, denied the claim by Amnesty International in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, made this position known in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.
Brig.-Gen. John Agim, the Acting Director of Defence Information, described the alleged action in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday as a “malicious trend”.
In a petition addressed to Amnesty International, a copy of which was made available to PRNigeria in Abuja, the stakeholders regretted that the Kaduna State Government has abandoned them to their fate, hence the recent killings and kidnappings and called on the international human rights body to wade into the crisis before the community is decimated.
Melaye in separate petitions to the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative, members of the diplomatic corps including the Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, Canada and the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom and the Amnesty International, Transparency International and the Human Rights Watch, however called on the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, members of the international Community and human rights bodies to save him from what he described as “willful, intentional harassment, oppression, political victimization and threat to life.”
The report was released in the early hours of Tuesday
The position of the military was contained in a report of the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General John Agim, on Friday