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The greatest threat facing the
Nigerian Army, its integrity and professionalism (if any) as well as
its general acceptance and factorization into the multi
ethno-religious Federation of Nigeria is its present lopsided
composition; designed and executed by the present Buhari/Osinbajo
Administration since 29th May 2015.
The gross lopsided composition of
the officers and personnel of the Nigerian Army is substantially, if
not totally responsible for woes facing it since June 2015. The
referenced terminal virus haunting the Army is also the case with
other branches of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Police.
Apart from the official logo of the Nigerian Army written in
Arabic/Islamic code, instead of the country’s adopted English Language
(only), the recent purge leading to unceremonious and unholy
retirement of dozens of senior military officers dominated by officers
of non Muslim religions is clearly a further evidence of the gross
ethno-religious lopsidedness under complaint. Also the case is the
barefaced evidence in the present northernization of the commanding
positions of the Nigerian Army and other military formations in
Southeast Nigeria or Igbo Land.
Most of the Nigerian Army and the
Nigerian Naval formations and their commanding positions in Southeast
are presently manned by Muslim personnel and officers of northern
Nigeria.
Statistically speaking, (1) the GOC 82 Division of the Nigerian Army
in Enugu is headed by Major Gen Adamu Baba Abubakar (Muslim); (2) the
Deputy Army Director of Information of the 82 Division is Col Sagir
Musa (Muslim), (3) the Commanding Officer of the Onitsha 302 Artillery
Military Police is Lt Col C.O. Ibrahim (Muslim), (4) the immediate
past, if not still the Commander of 144 Battalion (Sector) of the 14
Brigade (in Ohafia); located at Ukwa West, who is now at the 14
Brigade Headquarters is Lt Col Umar Sidi Kasim Muslim).
Also (5) the Brigade Commander of 14 Brigade, Ohafia is Brigadier Gen
Abdul Kalifah Ibrahim (Muslim), (6) the Commander of the Nigerian
Navel School of Finance & Logistics, Owerre-Nta is Navy Captain
Abdullahi Aminu (Muslim), (7) the Commanding Officer of 14 Field
Engineering Regiment, Onitsha is Lt Col Abubakar Saleh (Muslim) and
(8) the Commander, Naval Outpost, Onitsha (Ogbaru) is Navy Captain
Mohammed Dahiru (Muslim). This is just to name but few.
It is therefore correct in its entirety to say that the mass killing
by the Nigerian Army of unarmed and defenseless civilians of the Igbo
Ethnic Nationality stock; forbidden locally, regionally and
internationally both in war and non war situations, is solely rooted
in the foregoing. It is on statistical, empirical and legal records
that not less than 400 unarmed and defenseless citizens dominated by
the active population of the Igbo Ethnic Nationality have been shot
and killed by the Nigerian Army; between 30th of August 2015 and 14th
of September 2017 or in the past two years. Not less than 450 others
were shot and terminally injured.
Apart from recorded deaths of not less than 270 unarmed civilians
between 30th of August 2015 and 20th of January 2017, the death toll
arising from the Nigerian Army genocidal operations of 12th and 14th
September 2017 in Abia State may most likely have risen to not less
than 100. From our findings so far, not less than 60 deaths have been
recorded. These include six dead bodies of unarmed and defenseless
civilians and residents of Aba saved and deposited in an Aba mortuary,
four fully identified dead bodies/victims of the Army’s late night
raid of 12th September 2017 in Aba, five fully identified citizens
shot and killed between 11th and 14th September 2017 by soldiers in
their various places of work in Aba, six corpses saved and deposited
in an Isialangwa mortuary and four members of IPOB’s barehanded
security wing (already buried).
Others are several dead bodies of IPOB supporters recovered from
bushes around the palace of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s father at
Afara-ukwu, near Umuahia in Abia State. Four of the retrieved dead
bodies were recorded and videoed. These recovered dead bodies were
those hit by military bullets; forcing them to run inside the nearby
bushes from where they later died of gunshot wounds.
There are also
not less than 24 dead bodies reported to have been made away by
soldiers after they were shot and instantly killed in the vicinity of
the palace of the royal father of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in late evening
of 14th September 2017.
It is our conservative estimate that not less than 100 unarmed and
defenseless members of the civilian population were killed in the two
days of the Army’s genocidal operations in Abia State. The Nigerian
Army had earlier in the late night of 12th September 2017 embarked on
house to house raid, torture and killing of civilians in their sleep.
The affected areas included Umuode and Ariaria areas of Aba.
It is therefore the totality of the foregoing that gave rise to
widespread public suspicion and panic to the effect that the
lopsidedly composed Nigerian Army may have further designed
infanticide by injection or ethnic cleansing by other means; leading
to panicky shut down yesterday (11th September 2017) of mission,
private and public nursery, primary and secondary schools in Southeast
and its neighboring States. The quick reactions of the parents and
guardians as well as the owners and authorities of the affected
schools are commendably best to none in modern early warning signals
and quick and preventive response strategies.
This is more so when the scar and controversies trailing the source of
recent monkey pox epidemic in some parts of the South-south zone are
yet to be satisfactorily cleared by the authorities of the central
Government of Nigeria. The reactions of parents and guardians; the
authorities of the affected schools and general public of the
Southeast and parts of the South-south are a red card to the Nigerian
Military especially the Army.
The reactions have further soured and deepened the Civil-Military
frosty relations in Nigeria. The saddest part of it all is that some
of these nursery and primary school pupils as well as secondary school
children are those made fatherless, motherless or orphaned by the
Nigerian Army since August 2015 during which their defenseless parents
were massacred by the Army.
We therefore make bold to say that the so called free medical services
or outreach of the present lopsidedly composed Nigerian Army, their
noisy and psychologically forceful methods of delivery have become a
threat to public health in Nigeria. Till date, Nigerians are not aware
of medical exploits of the Nigerian Army in the broad field of
medicine tailored in regional or international standards. That is to
say that the Nigerian Army is never known to have recorded regionally
and internationally standardized breakthroughs in special or general
medicines and other public health matters in the country.
The Army should answer the following questions:
(1) what is the state
of health in the Nigerian Army and its medical department?
(2) Is it
correct or incorrect to say that the Nigerian Army medical department
has arrived regionally and internationally warranting its present
noises about “Army’s free medical services”? During the ill-health of
its C-in-C, what role did the Nigerian Army medical department play?
How many qualified doctors of repute are in the Nigerian Army and its
medical department? Nigerian Army recently shot and wounded over 400
Shiites and 450 Pro Biafra campaigners; within its Rules of
Engagement, how many of these wounded citizens have been treated and
healed medically?
In its so called “free medical services” what areas of ailment are
they treating or have treated? Was there feasibility study by the
Nigerian Army showing that Southeast Zone and its population have low
medical density or acutely lacked access to primary, secondary and
tertiary healthcare; warranting the Army’s noisy and questionable
“free medical services” in the Zone?
How many WHO and NMA certified
medical doctors are in the Army and attached to its present “free
medical services”? Are the “free medical services” of the Nigerian
Army certified, approved and supported by the World Health
Organization, the Nigerian Medical Association and the Federal
Ministry of Health?
What have been the success or failure stories of the so called “free
medical services” of the Nigerian Army? Has the Nigerian Army taken
over the statutory functions of the Federal and State Ministries of
Health?
How can Nigerian Army mindlessly slaughter unarmed members of
the civilian population and turn around to offer remnants of the same
population “free medical services”? Is it morally or conscientiously
right for a butcher to turn around and become a healer at the same
time?
Signed:
For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chair
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Email: botchairman@intersociety-ng.org
Chinwe Umeche, Esq.
Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
Email: chinwe.englewood@gmail.com
Obianuju Igboeli, Esq
Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
Email: igboeliobianuju@gmail.com
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