hehehehehe.....Protesters on Monday barricaded the Abuja office of Amnesty
International, demanding the international organisation leave Nigeria
within the next 24 hours.
Speaking for the protesters, Melvin Ejeh, who is Executive Director,
Global Peace and Rescue Initiative, GOPRI, had warned that the group
would lead other Nigerians on a five-day Occupy Amnesty International
protest as a first warning, if the organisation does not shut down its
operations and leave Nigeria in the next 24 hours.
“Let us warn at this point that there will be no interval of respite if AI failed to leave Nigeria at the end of the five days as we will activate other more profound options to make them the organization leave Nigeria''.
He called on Nigerians to “join the movement to get this evil out of our land before it plunges us into real war.”
Amnesty International in its report alleged human rights abuses by
Nigerian security agencies in the war against Boko Haram and in quelling
protests in other parts of Nigeria.
The organisation’s latest reports stated that 240 people, including
infants, died in a military detention centre in Borno in 2016, while 177
pro-Biafran agitators were extra-judicially killed in the same year.
However, the military denied the claims contained in the report, saying
“they were contrived lies orchestrated to blackmail and ridicule the
Nigerian Armed Forces.”
Mr. Ejeh added that organisations like the National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC, and the Global Amnesty Watch had condemned Amnesty
International's report which alleged human rights abuses by Nigerian
security agencies against arrested Boko Haram suspects.
More photos of the protesters sharing money below.
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