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| IPOB/Igbo Terrorism Tag: How Gen Dambazzu and his interior ministry can make nigeria a country with world largest prison inmates after USA |
---Intersociety
(Onitsha
Nigeria, 18th September 2017)-Nigeria’s grossly lopsided central Government and
its genocide actors in the military must put in place N900billion (about
$2.5billion) worth of 3000 new maximum security prisons and a daily feeding of
N3billion (N90B per month and N1.08t per year) for custodial keeping and
feeding of 3million members of pro Biafra groups led by the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB); labeled “militant terrorists” by the Nigerian Defense
Headquarters. Once these are done or provided, the Federal Republic of Nigeria
will instantly surpass the United States of America as the country with largest
number of custodial inmates (including prisoners and awaiting trial inmates) in
the world.
The above analysis is in
response to and consequence of the tagging of IPOB (a civil and nonviolent mass
movement of an indigenous people with over 3million members) by the Nigerian
Military as a “militant terrorist organization”. The Buhari Administration and
its genocidal military had, as a result, attracted to themselves “a complex
humanitarian crisis of insoluble proportion”; a self-inflicted wound it must
lick unaided. The violent central Administration must also disclose to all
Nigerians and the international community the whereabouts or secret mass graves
where it killed and buried 70% of over 2000 innocent and defenseless citizens
it slaughtered since June 2015; including over 1,120 Shiite Muslims and not
less than 270 pro Biafra agitators.
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Further break down of the costs
of the mandatorily required 3000 new maximum security prisons to keep 3million
pro Biafra activists who have been unconstitutionally and illegally tagged
“militant terrorists”; indicate that conservative estimate of N900B is required
to build new 3000 maximum security prisons; on average of N300M (including land
acquisition/compensations) for each prison and its associated facilities using
moderate market cost. The N3B daily feeding for 3m mass pro Biafra inmates is
on average of N1000 each/ per day and it excludes sanitary, clothing,
toiletries and basic healthcare. The N3B daily feeding will further cost the
Federal Government N90B monthly and N1.08trillion yearly; totaling
N1.9.0trillion or $5.5B mandatorily required for new “IPOB militant terrorism
prisons project” of the present central Government in Nigeria.
We have heard some shameless
security chiefs and senior Government officials spitting fire, barking and
banging on how “they will arrest all IPOB members in Nigeria and non IPOB
members with Biafra insignias”; how “those arrested will be crushed or killed,
detained and charged for murder, terrorism and treason”, etc. The embarrassment
by these corruptive and empty headed policing chiefs including the newly posted
Commissioner of Police for Abia State; of the Federal Republic and the People
of Nigeria before the international community and outside world has gotten out
of hand. Instead of being seriously concerned and agitated over the mindless
usurpation of their constitutional policing duties by Nigeria’s democracy
interlopers called the Nigerian Military; these police chiefs are busy
abdicating and letting go their duties and powers.
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Nigeria’s central Government
and its State counterparts/collaborators must no longer be allowed to take laws
into their hands especially going by rampancy of extra judicial executions,
unlawful killings, torture and enforced disappearances raging and ravaging the
present Administration. The Nigerian State’s national, regional and
international lip services in matters of human rights are no longer hidden.
Instead of softening and improving on its grossly poor human rights records,
this central Government is hardening same, indulging and living with same;
perpetrating them with reckless abandon.
Rather than decongesting its
grossly inadequate and poor prisons’ facilities and improving its age long
prisoners or inmates’ poor and inhumane conditions; the Nigerian Government and
its prisons’ authorities now sickeningly and brazenly mangle the inmates’
figures or numbers; such as whereby a prison is made to look as if it is
slightly congested whereas it is hyper congested.
The Nigerian Government and its
security agencies also pretend to the international community and outside world
that “it maintains a moratorium on death penalty”; but gravely and rampantly
indulges in extra judicial executions, unlawful killings including secret
executions and enforced disappearances. Since June 2015, cases of secret
executions and enforced disappearances in Nigeria have quadrupled those of open
scene extra judicial executions and unlawful killings. Apart from killing and
taking the slain away militarily, the Nigerian Government backed Army also
carries out countless secret raids, abductions, killings and secret burial of
their abductees.
Statistically, it is on
irrefutable and provable records that out of 1,120 defenseless Shiite Muslims
killed by Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and his subordinates in the Nigerian Army on 12th,
13th and 15th December 2015, only 347 bodies were
admitted being buried in mass graves provided and supervised by the Government
of Kaduna State. On 30th August 2017, the authorities of the Shiite
Muslims in Nigeria presented to Amnesty Int’l and the world pictures and other
provable details of 783 of their defenseless members killed by the Army during
the said December 2015 massacre without their bodies traced or befittingly
interred till date.
Also out of not less than 270
defenseless pro Biafra activists killed by the Nigerian Army and its police
collaborators since August 2015, over 80% of their bodies are still missing.
Amnesty Int’l had similarly alleged that the Nigerian Army had in 2016 in its
military Barracks in Borno State caused the mass death of 240 civilians
including 29 children; aged between new born and five years. The identities and
bodies of 236 IDPs bombed to death by the Nigerian Government and its quack Air
Force on 17th January 2017 in Borno State have remained unknown to
Nigerian public, families of the slain and outside world till date. This is
just to mention but few.
It is therefore the totality of
the above that necessitated the issuance of this important public statement.
Though Nigerian Government as presently constituted gravely and discretely
prefers secret killings, torture and enforced disappearances in place of
investigative and penal due processes; namely: arrest, lawful detention,
skilful investigation, fair trial, conviction or acquittal; or sentencing; but it is totally and empirically impossible to extra judicially kill and
disappear, undetected, 3m pro Biafra activists who the Defense Headquarters
criminally labeled or over-criminalized as “militant terrorists”. These explain
our referenced mandatory request for mandatory provision of new 3000 maximum
security prisons of N900B and yearly feeding of N1.08trillion.
Comparatively, once these
negative demands of ours are negatively put in place, Nigeria will by far
surpass USA with 3.5million prison inmates as against US’s present 2.3million
adults inmates presently housed in its 5,901 correction facilities including
1,719 State prisons, 102 federal prisons, 3,163 local jails, 76 Indian County
jails, 901 juvenile correction facilities as well as other military prisons,
immigration detention facilities and civil commitment centers. According to the
US Bureau of Justice Statistics, the United States presently houses 22% of
world prison population with 2.3million adults in its prisons and a total of
6,811,000 adults on correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail and
prison). There are also 54,148 juveniles in juvenile detentions in USA as at
2013.
Back home, the number of
prisons including satellite prisons and borstal homes in Nigeria are not only
acutely inadequate to accommodate 3m pro Biafra activists who the Defense
Headquarters criminally, illegally and unconstitutionally labeled “militant
terrorists”; but are also shockingly outdated and overcrowded. As a matter of
fact, they are deathtrap and theaters of death. Nigeria had since 1872 when it
built the Broad Street Prisons as its first colonial conventional prison;
struggled and built only 144 prisons including farm centers, 83 satellite
prisons and two borstal homes; presently housing 68,259 prisoners and inmates.
There are also 15,316 Nigerian prisoners presently serving in overseas. The Nigeria’s Controller General of Prisons,
Ja’afaru Ahmed had in March 2017 put the total number of Nigerians in the
country’s prisons to 68,259 and further lamented “the dwindling population of
prisoners and inmates in Nigeria”. In other words, he was asking for more
citizens to be sent to prisons and be overcrowded without any form of “prison
expansion policy and project”.
What Gen Buhari’s UN Address
Must Include: The text of Gen Muhammadu Buhari’s address to
the UN must include soliciting for another $5B to $6B annually in harsh
loans from “World Bank”, “IMF”, “Paris
Club”, “Islamic Dev Bank”, “African Dev Bank”, “Chinese-Exim Bank”, etc; or “repatriation
of looted and stashed funds” to build more prisons and feed 3m pro Biafra
activists tagged “militant terrorists” and the entire Igbo Race who are now
massively tagged “collaborators and disgruntled treasury looter-sponsors of
militant terrorists”. We beg the international community and holders of “looted
and stashed funds” and lenders of harsh loans to treat the Gen’s request with
uttermost dispatch; using favourable and harmless alternatives such as grants
and releases of the “looted funds”; otherwise his violent Government may fall
back deeper in extra judicial executions, unlawful killings, torture, secret
executions and criminal burying or disposing of the slain.
Signed:
For: International Society for Civil
Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Barr Obianuju Igboeli
Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law
Program
Barr Ndidiamaka Bernard
Head, Int’l Justice and Human Rights
Program
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