19. National leaders of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria: vicarious culpability in various agro-Jihadist massacres by its armed and State protected Fulani herdsmen. The organization should also be proscribed.
20. Other culprits that may be uncovered by the criminal investigations and proceedings of the 3-in-One Judicial Commissions of Enquiry under demand.
REJECTION OF KADUNA AND ARMY BOARDS OF ENQUIRY AND CULTURE OF IMPUNITY IN NIGERIA
Our total rejection of the Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Enquiry into Shiite massacre and the recent Nigerian Army’s Board of Enquiry into gross rights abuses by its key personnel in the course of its counterinsurgency operations and unconstitutional and violent involvement in civil assemblies in Nigeria.
It led to death of thousands of defenseless citizens and injuring of over a thousand others is on account of manifest bias and partiality associated with same whereby the same Nigerian Army and its key personnel as well as the Governor/Government of Kaduna State being fingered as culprits are those investigating themselves.
This is tantamount to being judges in their own case and hearing themselves alone. In other words, it is a fundamental breach of the two natural justice principles of nemo judex in causa sua and audi alteram partem (i.e. do not be a judge in your own case and always hear the other side).
We also frown at the seeming institutionalized culture of impunity and selective application of law in Nigeria whereby citizens of the country from particular or hated section are treated with brazen discrimination by the Government and security agencies including being made to pass through Government’s criminalization and criminal labeling, stigmatization and prosecutorial vindictiveness; while others or favoured or first class citizens are treated kingly and as being above the law.
These are grave violation of Section 42 of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution or right against discrimination. Totality of these has also continued to breed divisions and divisive tendencies and have gravely fuelled social radicalization in Nigeria.
Human rights as universally indivisible and indissoluble must be treated as such by your acting Presidency.
Where gross abuses of human rights are condoned by Government and intensified by security agencies because the affected victims are “slave-citizens” or third class citizens, they will intractably push Nigeria into precipice and crossroads if remain unaddressed.
We, therefore, call on your acting Presidency to end the raging State actor and non-State actor butcheries in Nigeria or any part thereof.
The sadistic menace of armed and government protected Fulani herdsmen must also be proactively checkmated and tamed by your acting Presidency.
For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies), Board Chairman
Mobile Line: +2348174090052; Email: botchairman@intersociety-ng.org
Chinenye Florence Akubilo, Esq., LLB, BL
Head, Campaign & Publicity Department
Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq., LLB,BL
Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
Chinwe Umeche, Esq., LLB, BL
Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
CC:
Chief Justice of Nigeria
Senate President of Nigeria
Deputy Senate President of Nigeria
Speaker of House of Reps
Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria
ECWA Church Worldwide
Christian Association of Nigeria
Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Islamic Movement in Nigeria
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB Worldwide)
Ekwenche Group, Chicago, USA
Alaigbo Development Foundation
EU Mission to Nigeria
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
