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The highest Igbo socio-cultural orgainzation, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has frowned at the unprofessional approach of joint Nigeria Armed Forces, DSS and the police on igbo women who came to show their solidarity to the detained leader of the Indigeneous Peoples of Biafra at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The Igboayaka O. Igboayaka-led Ohanaeze youths in a release made available to AFRIPOST on Thursday, regretted that Nigeria is currently crawling to banana Republic where the dignity of human rights is the order of the day in the hands of security officers who are expected to demonstrate high level of expertise and professionalism in the discharge of their constitutional responsibility.
The orgainzation explained that the igbo women and mothers who stood about one kilometer away from the Federal High Court close to Blue Springs Hotel Abuja, became objects of security brutality when the troops of Nigeria security agents sprayed tear gas on the aged mothers, marched the women on the ground while hitting them with guns and left them with bruises. In the process, some of the women were stripped naked by security men.
The Ohanaeze youths described such nefarious acts as completely unacceptable and a slap to the dignity of Nigerian women, and added to the series of anti social reasons why Nigeria is counted among the unsafe places to live in the world.
According to the apex Igbo youth body, “the behaviour of security personnel on Igbo women on Wednesday, was a challenge to women groups, the national Assembly and the global community. People have a right to movement and association, the case of Nigeria is fast becoming different”.
The OYC also maintained that Nigeria is drifting into a state of lawlessness where the fundamental human rights is serially abused especially by security agents, and this truism accounts for why Nigeria is leading in abuse of human rights violation globally.
It further used the medium to call on the international Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others to focus on the ugly events in Nigeria especially the ongoing massacre in the southeast which has the highest rate of human right abuse by Nigeria security agents that has continued to target ndigbo and maim them at every slight opportunity.
“The intimidation, marginalization, injustice, human rights abuses against ndigbo were some of issues that caused the quest for secession, yet the Nigeria government is worsening the situation, pushing the country to the edge of collapse”, the Igbo youths further insisted.
The Ohanaeze youths called on the National Human Rights Commission Headquarters Abuja, o as a matter of responsibility publish human rights abuses of the people of Igbo nation in all parts of Nigeria.
AFRIPOST recalls that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had on Wednesday, struck out a six-count amended charge brought against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
The judge threw away the fresh charges following its withdrawal by counsel to the Federal Government, Adamu Kaatu.