Extra Judicial Killings: Rights Group Reports Nigeria Security Agents To Presidency

A reputable Civil Rights Organization In Nigeria, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has called the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government officials against the unlawful continuous violation of fundamental human rights of Nigeria citizens by the trigger happy personnel of security agents in the country, noting that it has become unbearable for innocent Nigeria citizens to continue with extra judicial killing and illegal torturing by the security apparatus.

The group also appealed to the international human rights organizations to come to aid of the victims of ongoing series of human rights abuses in the land.

According to a Press Statement issued and signed by the group’s Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman which copies were made available to newsmen on Thursday after the group’s monthly emergency meeting in Lagos to review the recent security challenges facing the country from the hands of security personnel which they were now violating the rights of the innocent Nigerians at will,

It alleged the Military personnel (Soldiers), Custom, Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) with the Department of the States Security Services (DSSS) of their continue undemocratic violation of citizens’ rights which is tantamount to the breaking down of law and order they were supposed to maintain in the society.

The group, which quoted and reminds President Muhammad Buhari on his response to the recent unlawful murdered of innocent Nigeria Citizen (Late Kolade Johnson) by the officers of the Nigeria Police that the “Government will not tolerate in any way the brutalization of Nigerians or the violation of their rights, which President further says any officer of the security apparatus or any government functionary who caught in this dastard act would not go unpunished,adding that the President Buhari still made promised by admitting that a lot of steps need to be taking to put the mind boggling incidents under control.

The group further stated that, due to the above statement make the group referred President Buhari to the reports of the Amnesty International of Friday, September 19th, 2014 which still existing till the present moment that “5,000 to 10,000 Nigerians in the security agents custody, were commonly used techniques tortured that similar with that of military in the war front in order to ensure that he or she made confession to the offence they were not committed.

The group maintained that the Amnesty International revealed that the report was tagged as “Welcome to hell Fire”, stressing that this serious and authentic reports came out from the office of Director of Amnesty International Research and Advocacy, after their visitation and research to Nigeria Police Stations and Prisons for period of Seven (7) Years and the said report was compiled from hundreds of testimonies with evidence gathered for over Ten (10) Years.

According to the report, hinted on how women, men and children are often detained illegally in large dragnet operations and torture, include “beatings with whips, gun butts, machetes, batons, sticks, rods, and cables as punishment to extort money or to extract “confessions” as a shortcut to “solve” cases.

More over, the Amnesty International and it’s office of Research and Advocacy still reported further through its Director that, torture and other ill treatment by the Nigeria Law Enforcement Agencies and it’s Agents routine and common throughout the length and breath of the country, cited their bitter experiences in the North which, hundreds of women and girls in Police and military custody are being subjected to a range of physical and Psychological torture, assault and other ill treatment include “rape and sexual harassment, with inserting bottles and other objects into a woman’s private part; Shooting people in the legs, foot or hands during interrogation; extracting Nails, teeth, fingernails and toenails with pliers; suspending detainees upside down by their feet for hours and so on.”Amnesty International lamented”.

In the face of avalanche of proofs and preponderance of evidence, the Amnesty International tasked the country’s parliament to enact law criminalizing torture with immediate effect and to take this long overdue step without any further delay.

CHRSJ which strongly believed in the damning report of the Amnesty International that the degree of molestation of innocent citizens by the Nigeria Law Enforcement Agents in the guise of legal duty is alarming and  debunks all claims to democracy of the Nigeria nation as the report also reveals how most of those detained are held incommunicado, denied an access to the outside world, including lawyers, families and the court, which it still thrives up till today in all Nigeria Law Enforcement formations, most of the times, the innocent will be arrested, intimidated, brutally assaulted unjustly and not based on facts or law, “what errant nonsensical exhibition of ignorance?

In as much the President is aware now that Nigeria law enforcement agencies and it’s agents are fast becoming a despicable nuisance in the sphere of operational illegalities and abject violation of the Fundamental Human Rights of the citizens of this nation and this nonsensical ignorance of Law perpetrated by this so called law enforcement agents must be stopped now or to be stopped by the Mass action with Political struggle and legal, which June 12 of 1993 to 1999 and Occupied Nigeria of 2012 will be a Child Play. “The group advised”.

As the illiteracy and low intellectual capacity of these law enforcement agents are exposed on physically abused of the citizens, common assault, peculiar insult, blackmailing, harassment, intimidation, illegality and marked the innocent for unlawful detention, the CHRSJ still call Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International, National Human Rights Commission and host of others to rise up to the occasion by  promptly takes the urgent action against this persistent madness and its perpetrators, who refused to have respect for the rule of law and not to desist from disrespect of citizens’ rights.

It therefore urged the international organizations not to relent in its efforts by continuing their visitation from time to time to the security formations across the country, particularly in the area of decongesting  the nation’s Prison yard so as to rescue innocent Nigeria citizens from the baptism of fire under Nigeria Security agents watch.