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SHOCKING DETAILS: The Killings, persecution Of Christians And Rise Of State Jihadism In Nigeria
July 28, 2016 News No comments
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According to an investigative and statistical findings of Open Doors and its chief executive officer, Lisa Pearce, Christians are facing State coordinated and State-abetted persecution in Nigeria. The persecution of Christians, according to the respected international anti Christian persecution watchdog, is carried out by three groups: Islamist Boko Haram terror group, Muslim Fulani herdsmen and the Muslim religious fanatics oiled by political elite as well as top politico-security appointees.

In other words, while Christian killings are perpetrated by the trio of terrorist Fulani Janjaweed and Boko Haram groups and government security agents; the present Federal Government under Gen Muhammadu Buhari is deepening and consolidating its pursuit of radical and annihilative policy of State Jihadism; thereby encouraging reprisal radicalization and undermining the unity, Constitution and secularity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

According to the recent report of Open Doors, the attack against Christians has become rampant in the North and in 2015 alone; there were 4,028 Christian killings and 198 attacks on churches, which nearly doubled those of the previous year. The Open Doors also stated in its report that 1.3 million Christians had fled their homes to safer places to avoid being hacked to death by religious fanatics and that between 2009 and 2014; a period of five years, 11,500 Christians were killed and 13,000 churches destroyed in Boko Haram insurgency.

At the heat of the politically oiled Boko Haram terror, Christian communities in the Northeast were carefully uprooted and decimated and during preparations for 2015 general elections particularly the presidential poll, Christians in their millions, were denied permanent voters cards and every single living Muslim including millions of the under-aged were captured and issued with voting cards.

For instance, Mr. Francis Emmanuel, a Christian carpenter, was attacked by some Muslim fanatics backed by violent northern politicians. The attack took place in Kakuri area of Kaduna State. He was inflicted with deep machete cuts on his head and other parts of his body for “eating during the Ramadan fast”. Another Christian and 74-year-old member of Deeper Life Bible Church, Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, was stoned to death in Kano by some Muslim traders for “blaspheming against Prophet Mohammed”. In the same period, a 42-year-old Deaconess Eunice Elisha Olawale, a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abuja was murdered by some sponsored Muslim fanatics during her early morning preaching in her neighborhood.

On 15th of July 2016, worshipers at Saint Philip Catholic Church in Baki Ikun along Kaduna Road in Suleja, Niger State and their Church were invaded, attacked and burnt by some politically sponsored Muslim fanatics for “worshiping on Friday solely meant for Muslims”. Other instances of killing including beheading and lynching of Christians and burning of their sacred places of worship by the malicious and untamed entities named above are too numerous to mention.

Through State created, aided and abetted Fulani Janjaweed violence, targeted at rural Christian populations in North-central or Middle-Belt, Southeast and South-south Nigeria, thousands of innocent rural Christians have also been murdered in their sleep and farms. Since the inception of the Buhari administration on 29th May 2015, over 1000 Christians have been massacred.

In 2014 alone, 1,229 mostly Christians were massacred by the Government backed agro-religious fundamentalist group, erroneously called “Fulani Herdsmen”. In six months of 2015 (January-June), 621 mostly rural Christians were massacred. In this 2016 alone, over 500 including over a dozen Christian priests and royal fathers have been butchered in their sleep and farms by the Government backed Janjaweed. The list of persecution and butchering of Christians in Nigeria is inexhaustible.

Over 250 members of Igbo- Christian Nigerians have also been massacred while over 400 others terminally shot and maimed between 30th of August 2015 and 30th of May 2016; a period of nine months. The massacre and maiming of these innocent and unarmed citizens took place in Southeast and South-south regions of Nigeria and were perpetrated by Nigerian security forces under a presidential death-code handed down to them by the Buhari administration for the purpose of violent suppression of nonviolent assemblies and democratic free speeches organized and expressed by regional self determination activists. The activists have till date never used or advocated group violence in Nigeria or any part thereof.

Till date, the Government of Gen Muhammadu Buhari, which has constitutional repository of securing and ensuring lives and properties of all Nigerians including holy places of worship has neither tamed the butcheries nor fished out their perpetrators. As we speak, none of the perpetrators has been fished out and put on trial. That is to say that Government is fully aiding and abetting the sundry ethno-religious cleansing and butcheries. It also partakes circumstantially and vicariously, if not directly.

When Government aids and abets crimes, it becomes expressly culpable. The unwillingness and inability of the Buhari administration to protect the Christian populations in Nigeria and uphold the sanctity of secularity and collective security of all Nigerians are alarming and deafening.

The Buhari administration, from every indication, is also running an Islamist government. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its sacred Sections 10 (secularity of the country), 14 (2) (b) (security and welfare of the citizens), 14 (3) (geopolitical spread and equality of federal appointments, promotions and postings) and 38 (1) (right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion) are being threatened, battered and disrespected with reckless abandon by the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari.

Manifestations of State Jihadism: State Jihadism is the effort of the State and deployment of State coercive instruments and resources in defense, propagation and promotion of Islamic faith at terminable expense of other dominant religions within a political territory. It also has to do with State encouragement, aiding and abetting of religious intolerance and coordinated violence against members of other dominant religions and destruction of their holy places of worship as well as promotion of discriminatory and exclusionist policies aimed at concentrating key security and public institutions and decisions in the hands of Muslims. The foregoing has remained the keystone of the Buhari administration till date.

For instance, out of 48 key public securitization appointments under the Buhari administration, 38 are allocated to northern Muslims with only 10 allocated to the South, with about two of them retained by Muslims. In these sensitive security appointments, the Southeast zone with largest concentration of ancestral Christians in Nigeria is left with zero allocation. The recent promotions and postings in the senior command hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force are a further attestation of the Buhari administration’s determination to entrench State Jihadism in Nigeria.

The Nigeria Police Force is constitutionally charged with internal security of the country as well as protection of lives and properties of all Nigerians including all their places of worship. The composition of the NPF is ought to be secular and non-sectional. But reverse is the case under the present administration of Gen Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigeria Police Force is nothing but Islamist Police Force of Nigeria.

In the present composition of the NPF under reference, Northern Muslims are in firm control of 70% of the 37 State CPs and the FCT. Also 70% of the AIGs in charge of the country’s 12 Zonal Commands are Muslims and none is allocated to the Southeast. Muslims also dominate up to 70% of the headship of country’s strategic police formations and establishments such as Police Marine, Police Border Patrol, Police Highway, Airport Police, Police Anti Terrorism, Police SARS, FCID, SCIDs, Federal and States Operational Commands, Special Protection Units, Anti Bunkering Squads, Area Commands, Divisional Commands, etc.

We challenge the Buhari administration to proof us wrong by publishing publicly the geopolitical origins of the heads of these strategic police formations mentioned above. The headships of other security forces in Nigeria including army, navy, air force, DSS and their strategic formations are also grossly lopsided and Islamist oriented.

With headships of the country’s security formations dominated and concentrated in the hands of Muslims, with another intolerant Muslim as Nigeria’s President, it is inexcusably understood why the persecution and butchering of Christians and burning of their places of worship have continued unchecked and untamed. These have also led to disproportionate emergency responses from security agencies and headships during politically coordinated mob or group violence against Christian populations and citizens in Nigeria.

Several investigations carried out by the public security and safety department of this organization (International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, clearly indicate that Nigerian security agencies promptly respond to threats of reprisal violence by ethnic or religious victim-groups against their Muslims attackers as against their little or zero responses when Christians or other ethno-religious protagonist groups are attacked violently by Muslims. Security responses in the latter precarious situations are substantially, if not totally reactive or medicine after death security approaches.

The Christians leaders in Nigeria must, therefore, rise to the occasion and ensure that the ongoing persecution and butchering of Christians by their violent Muslim counterparts are competently resisted and put to an end. Advocacy steps must also be taken by Christian bodies and leaders to force the administration of Gen Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the administration’s obvious State Jihadism and Islamist policies and return Nigeria back to practicable constitutionalism, rule of law and secularity.

Failure of the Christian clergies in Nigeria to lead the way to ensure cessation and stoppage of these butcheries may most likely be a call for reprisal radicalization by their laities. Christians in Nigeria must not be forced to return to Medieval Saint Augustine era or Augustinian Epoch during which competent defense of Christian Faith by all means marked out a successful defender as a martyr and mandatory Heaven maker if killed in battle fronts or triumphed over enemies. The Buhari administration must, therefore, rise to the occasion and desist from teaching Christians in Nigeria the hard way in defense of their Faith and right to freedom of religion and worship!

Signed:

For: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)

Emeka Umeagbalasi, Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies
Board Chairman
+2348174090052, Info@intersociety-ng.org

Barr Chinwe Umeche, Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program

Barr Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program

Barr Uzochukwu Oguejiofor-Nwonu, Head, Campaign & Publicity Department

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Nigeria’s Unity Is Negotiable, Veteran Journalist Tells Buhari
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Last week we drew attention to two countries’ (Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia) dilemma in the choice of the best instrument between “negotiating and non-negotiating”, they deployed when the challenge of continuity of statehood confronted them. While Czechoslovakia was wise enough to negotiate for unity, Yugoslavia adamantly refused to negotiate. The former concluded the negotiation without going to war and with no loss of lives, the latter went to war leading to the loss of millions of lives and the disintegration of the nation into five and half countries.

Let us look at what the victorious world powers did to Germany immediately after the end of the Second World War. The country was split into two and a wall was erected to separate the East from the West. With time however, the Germans got together and decided, after series of negotiations, to achieve that great Unification announced on October 3, 1990. Thus, East and West Germany ceased to exist and in their place five new territorial federal states came together to form the now formidable Federal Republic of Germany. This was a major restructuring that was negotiated. Nigeria can learn from this.

South Sudan independence that came just in 2011 is another example Nigeria can learn from. It used to be one Sudan, with North and South dichotomy that fostered serious ethnic imbalance, religious challenges, imbalance in deposit of natural resources, imbalance in population matter and numerous challenges, just like what we have in Nigeria today. For years, the slogan from Khartoum, then capital of the country at the time, was that the unity of Sudan was not negotiable. That was until blood started flowing in that country. What the Sudan case signified, like many other countries of similar character, is that any issue men refuse to negotiate will “negotiate itself” with unpredictable consequences.

The most recent was the Brexit vote that saw the British people voting their country out of the European Union. It does not matter that the vote was 51% in favour of “exit” and 49% of “remaining” in the European Union; the people spoke and every other thing is now history. The first casualty of that negotiation is David Cameron who had to quit paving the way for the emergence of a new Prime Minister in the person of Theresa May.

There is greater implication for Nigeria in the latest development – that is if we are ready to listen and learn. With the exit from the European Union confirmed by the British people, the unity of the United Kingdom is now in jeopardy as Scotland is seriously threatening leaving the United Kingdom having voted to remain in the European Union. Who says such and even worse cannot happen in Nigeria?

The purpose of this write-up is to tell the Nigerian leadership and some political eggheads in the country, that the unity of Nigeria is negotiable and the right time for that exercise is now. Nigerians, from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds across the 250 diversified nationalities [from the South to the North] are agreeing on one common ground, to wit: there are differences, anomalies, contracting and contending issues, working against the continued unity of the country that need to be addressed. Everyone believes that we need each other. Everyone pray that we remain together in one big country. Every Nigerian wants to see this great expectation translating into eternity.

Yet every one of us has a point of concern over one thing or the other militating against the realisation of this noble expectation of continued unity. Hence, every Nigerian speaks of restructuring the country. When Nigerians talk of restructuring, they are directly saying: “Let us come together to point out further our differences, put them [the differences] on the table and negotiate with them in focus; how we can live together in harmony under one country”. This is the meaning of the practical call to restructuring and negotiating the unity of the Nigerian nation.

If there is any time in Nigeria’s history when the need to negotiate the restructuring of our continuity is more apt, the time is now. There are occurrences of facts that our differences are becoming more glaring on daily basis. And the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari is not helping matters. The dichotomy between the South and the North is becoming more pronounced as appointments are weighing over 70% in favour of the North against the South since the inception of this administration.

The proper meaning and practice of fiscal federalism has been jettisoned since the military incursion into the Nigerian polity. Thomas AguiyiIronsi, the military Head of State who emerged after the first military coup, was assassinated, ostensibly because he introduced the Unification Decree No 34 of 1966, an action which highlighted the Northern ruling class fear of “the South dominating over the North”. Are we not now practising even a more deadly unitary system of government under this so-called democratic government? This unitary system of government is underlined by the fact that all states of the Federation go to Abuja on monthly basis to beg “for daily bread” – call it bail-out fund or whatever name.

Every day in our lives, as citizen of this great country, there are serious issues begging for drastic remedies. And whoever makes a peaceful resolution of issues impossible, makes a violent revolution of those issues inevitable.

*Mr Etakibuebu, a veteran journalist, wrote from Lagos.

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MILITANTS group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has vowed to bomb more oil pipelines beginning from first week of August. The group warned oil workers and foreigners still in the region to vacate or risk their lives.

The group which has claimed respon­sibility for recent spate of bombings of oil facilities in the region said it has had enough of the dishonesty and tricks of the Federal Government, as it claimed the peace talk or dialogue purportedly initiated by the Federal Government was a delay tactics to enable the gov­ernment take delivery of arms includ­ing drones expected to arrive by end of August from the United States.

“This whole thing makes us to won­der what kind of country is this? We can all see that President Buhari-led govern­ment is a fraud. They are not serious about any dialogue. But they make it look as if the Niger Delta Avengers are the ones not ready for dialogue.

“Mr. President, you can purchase all the drones in Europe and the United States of America, it won’t stop the Niger Delta Avengers from bringing the country’s economy to zero.

“The worst you can do is to kill poor innocent people which the military is good at, but you should know that the Nigerian economy will suffer, as you will not be able to export one litre of crude in the Niger Delta. Just intensify the oil exploration in the North East. As for the ones in the Niger Delta, forget about it because the Nigerian govern­ment won’t export a drop from our land,” the militants bragged.

But the military has read the riot act to the militants to desist from attacking oil installations or face the consequences of their criminal actions.

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Commander of Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie who gave the warning in Asaba during a courtesy call on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State vowed that the multi-service task force was prepared to tackle any criminal action within the Nigerian maritime area.

He said the military has the mandate of President Muhammadu Buhari to secure the waters in the Niger Delta region covering part of Ondo, Edo and the entire Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers as well as part of Akwa Ibom states against security and economic threats.

Meanwhile, the Concerned Militant Leaders (CML) has claimed responsi­bility for the attack on the Nigerian Na­tional Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline, which occurred on Monday, at Obotim Ikot Ekong village in Akwa Ibom State.

Also, the CML said the Liberian ship, which its “rugged sea warriors” seized on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, on Bakassi Peninsula Nigerian waterways, would not be released, adding that the vessel would be named after Biafra.

Spokesperson of the group, General Ben, stated this yesterday, while react­ing to the statement by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-General Tukur Buratai that the militants would be attacked, if government’s efforts to dialogue with militants proved futile.

General Ben claimed no active militant group has engaged the Federal Government in any discussion, warning that any individual who works against the collective agenda of the militants would regret his or her action.

However, former Managing Direc­tor of the defunct Nigerian Airways, Captain Mohammed Joji said Buhari should not romance the militants by going into dialogue with them. He said government should engage them “fire for fire.”

Joji said by blowing up oil pipelines and destroying other key facilities that affect the economy of the Nigeria, the militants have declared war against the Nigerian state, and therefore should not be pitied.

Captain Joji said the militant group has not only inflicted incalculable pains on Nigerians, but also about to cripple the nation’s economy.

While lamenting that the activities of the Avengers was responsible for the scarcity of aviation fuel, the aviation expert said if the the ‘madness’ was al­lowed to continue, it would ground the aviation industry, which would in turn ground the economy.

“Fuel scarcity in the aviation sector is a sabotage by the so-called Niger Delta Avengers, so pipeline vandalism must be brought to a halt if the crisis must end.

“I am not an advocate of negotiations with a terrorist group. The Federal Gov­ernment should forget about democracy and go fire for fire with the Avengers,” he said.

In a related development, former minister of mines and steel, Chief Sarafa Tunji Ishola enjoined President Buhari to quickly summon an emergen­cy Council of State meeting to address the prevailing insecurity.

Ishola said the president should not wait until the insecurity in Niger Delta, the agitation for Biafra Republic in the South East and the continuous killings of innocent Nigerians by herdsmen, spi­ral out of hand before convening such a meeting.

“Allowing insecurity to persist beyond the current level may spell doom for Buhari’s administration, because the level of poverty in Nigeria today is just too high that people are only tolerating his administration temporarily.

“If he should allow Nigerians to run out of patience and revolt against his administration, that may spell doom,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain said.

The ex-minister explained that the president should not think the rising insecurity in the country was something he and his All Progressives Congress (APC) could solve alone.

“Buhari needs wisdom from former Heads of State and other elder states­men who have ruled this nation before him. So, he needs to call the Council of State meeting as a matter of urgency, with security matter as the sole agen­dum.”

Ishola noted that it would be a great error on the part of Buhari to think that the method he used about 31 years ago as military Head of State is what he would use now as civilian president.

“This is a democratic dispensation, you have to carry along critical stake­holders and also have listening ears, if not the insecurity will get out of hand. And if you are talking about diversifica­tion of the economy, tell me, which foreign investors will go to a country to invest where they are throwing bombs, kidnapping people and demanding huge ransoms?” he queried.

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Turkey President Erdogan Says Nigeria And USA Behind The Failed Coup In Turkey (Video)
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A former U.S. commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, was the organizer of the July 15 military coup attempt in Turkey, sources said.

General John F. Campbell was one of the top figures who organized and managed the soldiers behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey, sources close to ongoing legal process of pro-coup detainees said.

Campbell also managed more than $2 billion money transactions via UBA Bank in Nigeria by using CIA links to distribute among the pro-coup military personnel in Turkey.

The ongoing investigation unveiled that Campbell had paid at least two secret visits to Turkey since May, until the day of the coup attempt.

The coup plot that was foiled by the comprehensive effort of Turkish Nation, including its citizens, politicians, media and police forces, was organized by the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) led-by so-called cleric Fethullah Gülen who has been living in self-exile in America for several years.

American Intelligence, Military and other institutions are accused of supporting the FETO leader Gülen and his gangs for the military coup.

Military sources said Campbell, who was the commander of ISAF between August 26, 2014 and May 1, 2016, had made some top secret meetings in Erzurum military base and Adana İnicrlik Airbase.

İncirlik Airbase has been used by the U.S. Military for conducting the anti-Daesh campaign in Syria.

Military sources said that Campbell was the man, who directed the process of trending / blacklisting the military officers in the base.

If the coup attempt was successful, Campbell would visit Turkey in a short time, according to the sources.

Transition of $2 billion from Nigeria to Turkey

The Nigeria branch of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) was the main base for the last six-months of money transactions for the coup plotters.Millions of dollars of money has been transferred from Nigeria to Turkey by a group of CIA personnel.

The money, which has been distributed to an 80-person special team of the CIA, was used to convince pro-coup generals. More than 2 billion dollars were distributed during the process leading to the coup.

After taking money from their bank accounts, the CIA team hand delivered it to the terrorists under the military dresses.

Categorizing the military officers

The sources said that some familiar figures in the Eastern and Southeastern part of the country had taken active roles during the process, while the members of the Gülenist gang have been used in central and eastern region.

All officers who command a group of soldiers in a patrol station, unit, company, regiment, brigade, division, corps, or army were kept in close surveillance.

In 2015, the pro-Gülenist officers in the İncirlik base established an investigation desk. They drew the map of all soldiers under their command. They investigated the soldiers’ trends, their personalities and family background.

All soldiers were categorized in three groups: opponents, neutrals, and supporters.

A commander from the smallest patrol station to all military units had been blacklisted under the process.

Soldiers who were marked as opponents to the junta, was debarred from the “financial support.”

The military personnel who were in a neutral position received a difference in the amount of money, according to the importance of their position and ranks.

The money transactions were started in March 2015 through the commissioned “courier”. The supports who also were categorized as “those who will move with us,” were provided a huge amount of money.

All soldiers and officers in this category were considered as the devoted members of the FETO terror group.

A bag with a large amount of money was found in the room of Brigadier General Mehmet Dişli, one of the top military officials detained for leading the coup attempt.

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