Boko Haram: Stop undermining Nigerian Military, Group cautions AI

Amnesty International (IA) has been urged to desist from undermining the image and integrity of Nigerian Military and other security forces that have continued to rescue defenseless Nigerians from dreaded Boko Haram sect and other groups.

An advocacy group, Concerned Professionals’ Congress (CPC), made the call at the weekend in Lagos at a Media Roundtable on “The State of the Nigerian Nation,” warning that should Amnesty International  refuse, it would be left with no other choice than to call on Federal Government to drag the body before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague.

Chief Media Strategy of the group, Mr. Emeka Nwankpa, who spoke at the Roundtable, said this step would be taken to put a stop to full materialization of a grand conspiracy against the Nigerian nation.

Nwankpa, while citing some instances, including those of 10-year-old Fatima Ibrahim and 13-year-old Hauwa Modu, victims of Boko Haram, whose parents and relations were slaughters, but which accounts were not contained in the just-released report by the IA, demanded that the international body should come out clean to convince the free world that it was not an espionage and strategy wing of some interests that had sworn to wipe Nigeria out on the world map at all cost.

“We demand that Amnesty International should come out clean by convincing the free world that it is not espionage and strategy wing of some interests that have sworn to push Nigeria under at all cost.”

“We join our counterparts in Global Amnesty Watch (GAW), Africa Arise for change Network, Coalition of civil Society Group (COCSG), etc in putting pressure on Amnesty international and its mischievous collaborators to desist from undermining the image and integrity of our military and other security forces that have continued to rescue defenseless Nigerians from the barbaric and dastardly activities of Boko Haram and similar groups,” the group’s spokesperson said.

Speaking further, Nwakpa, while commending the Nigerian military under General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin and his Service Chiefs as well as his able and patriotic commanders of troops at Operation Lafia Dole for routing Boko Haram from Sambisa forest, noted with regret that the AI had through what he described as its “salacious and questionable reports” unabashedly supported and boosted the relentless activities of these heavily-armed non-state actors against the sovereignty of Nigerian state.

“This is treasonable, despicable and unacceptable. We demand and end to this otherwise we shall be forced to put pressure on our Federal government to imitate moves for the possible investigation and prosecution of Amnesty International at the international Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague before the full materialization of a grand conspiracy against the Nigerian State,” he vowed.