Sponsors & Perpetrators Of The Military Massacre In Eastern Nigeria Must Pay $4.1B Compensation; Face Life Jails & Other Hash Sentences Or Sanctions For Killing 480 Civilian Citizens & Crippling 500 Ors —Intersociety

(Chima Ubani Centre, Onitsha Nigeria,
6^th Feb 2019)-Int’l Society for Civil Liberties &
the Rule of Law is demanding from the central
Government of Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo (sponsor of the
massacre) and  two categories of the perpetrators a total
compensation or reparatory payment of $4.1b.

The $4.1b payment under demand is for the vicarious and direct
involvement of the named Government and the security chiefs and
other public office holders involved in the mindless, wicked,
ruthless, brutal, rapacious, genocidal, ethnocidal,
atrocious, grisly, unlawful and indefensible and inexcusable
massacre of no fewer than 480 unarmed and defenseless citizens and
injuring of over 500 others during the military massacre operations
in Eastern Nigeria between 30^th August 2015 and
14^th September 2017.

While $3b of the $4.1b under demand represents general damages
and costs inflicted or incurred by the victims of the massacre
operations, $1.1b represents the economic losses incurred during
the massacre and its aftermath by the People of Southeast Region
and Igbo Delta owing to widespread disruption of the economic
activities occasioned by military and police insecurity and
out-station and in-station police and military corruption including
roadblock and custodial extortions.

The $1.1b or N336b should be refunded by the present central
Government of Nigeria to the five States in the Southeast Region
and Delta State using the following sharing
formulas:  30% to Anambra State Government, 30% to
Abia State Government, 15% to Imo State Government, 12.5% to Enugu
State Government, 12.5% to Ebonyi State Government and 5% to the
Government of Delta State.

Intersociety’s demand stems from the fact that
we are also a victim in the named military massacre. For purpose of
clarity, the United
Nations Declaration on Basic Principles of
Justice for Victims of Crimes and Abuse of  Office,
1985, defines atrocity crimes victims as
“persons, who, individually or collectively, have suffered harm
including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic
loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through
acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws operative
within member-States, including those laws prohibiting abuse of
power. The victims include, where necessary, the
immediate family or dependant of the direct victim and persons
who have suffered harm in intervening to assist people in
distress or to prevent victimization”.

It is also the strong recommendation
of Intersociety that the named
perpetrators must face life jails and other hash sentences or
sanctions within Nigerian borders or at regional and international
borders. No perpetrator shall be sentenced to less than 25yrs and
above life jail. Intersociety opposes
death penalty in all its ramifications. There shall also be
national written apology from the central Government of Muhammadu
Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo to the People of Eastern Nigeria
especially the Igbo Race and Nigerians in general. The national
apology shall subsequently be transformed into a “National Sorry
Day” and a remembrance day to immortalize the slain or crime scene
and off crime scene dead victims.

Other Recommendations

• Intersociety is calling on the
  central Government of Nigeria to fish out and bring all the named
  perpetrators in the military massacre operations in Eastern Nigeria
  to book. Those still in the service or perpetrator-members of the
  Nigerian Military and the Nigeria Police Force (i.e. COAS and ors)
  must be identified and weeded out of the Armed Forces and the
  Police, arrested and prosecuted. Continued failure of the named
  Government to do so clearly amounts to breach of the Int’l Law
  Principles of Complementarity & No
  Impunity and forfeiture of such sovereignty rights before
  the international justice system. In law and criminology, such
  horrendous crimes are not statute barred or have no expiring
  dates.
• The int’l justice organizations and concerned others, on
  the other hand, should now or later do the needful in respect of
  Muhammadu Buhari, Yemi Osinbajo, Wiiliam Obiano and Victor Okezie
  Ikpeazu. The named quadruplet in the atrocity crimes can also be
  prosecuted in Nigeria when they must have lost their office
  immunity.
• Nigerian Government must end its brutal crackdown; likewise
  physical, structural and cultural violence and persecution of
  People of the Igbo Nation in Nigeria or any part thereof. All forms
  of hate and discriminatory policies against the People of the
  Nation-State in Nigeria including “terror
  stigmatization,” selective enforcement of the law
  and racial profiling must be discontinued and abolished.
• Law Enforcement and Rule of Law in Nigeria must be
  evenly or uniformly enforced irrespective of ethnic,
  religious, economic and cultural origins and affiliations of those
  citizens found or suspected to have been found to
  be conflict with the criminal laws of Nigeria.
• The Federal Government of Nigeria is strongly called upon
  to de-proscribe and delist from its so-called “terror
  list” the leading nonviolent and
  unarmed pro-Biafra group; vindictively and racially
  proscribed and labelled a “terror group” on
  17^thSeptember 2017 for sole but failed purpose of
  retroactively evading or escaping from the horrendous crimes
  perpetrated against the group, its members and supporters and other
  citizens of the Judeo-Christian People (Igbo) of Nigeria. There
  shall also be immediate decriminalization of members of the group
  and their lawful activities.
• The Attorney General of Nigeria is specifically urged to
  file motions for discontinuation of all ongoing pretrial and trial
  (nolle prosequi) of all members of the group vindictively arrested
  and detained or languishing in various police and SSS detention
  facilities or prison custodies across the country. They
  include those spuriously accused of “terrorism and terrorism
  financing” or “treason and treasonable felony.” The Attorneys
  General of States jurisdictionally handling such spuriously slammed
  charges in their States are also called upon to follow suit or be
  directed accordingly by the appropriate authorities.
• All military roadblocks in Igbo Land or Southeast Region
  and Igbo Delta, numbering not less than 100 and their police
  counterparts, numbering not less than 3000 as at January
  2019 must permanently be dismantled; with military and police
  personnel manning them withdrawn and moved out of the
  Region.
• Intersociety is also calling
  for total discontinuation and end of police and military roadblock
  extortions and commercialization of criminal investigation and
  other police duties in Igbo Land.
• The Nigeria Police Force must revert and return to
  professionalism and intelligence policing including mental and
  electronic policing intelligence or mental-machine policing
  intelligence

• There shall be a presidential directive by the central
  Government of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari and Prof Yemi
  Osinbajo, which says it is fighting corruption, to the authorities
  of the Nigerian Military, the Nigeria Police Force and Paramilitary
  formations operating in the Southeast Region and Igbo Delta to
  return the whopping N100b criminal or extortion proceeds to coffers
  of the Governments of Anambra, Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi and Delta
  States.
• In returning the criminal proceeds, the authorities of the
  Nigeria Police Force shall return a total of N78.02b extorted, the
  Nigerian Military N6b and the affected or named Paramilitary
  formations (Custom, FRSC, NDLEA and NAFDAC) N16b; totalling N100b
  or $330m.
• The percentage ratios for the return shall be 30% to
  Anambra State Government, 30% to Abia State Government, 15% to Imo
  State Government, 12.5% to Enugu State Government, 12.5% to Ebonyi
  State Government and 5% compensation to the Government of Delta
  State.
• The present Buhari and Osinbajo Government shall issue
  further directives to the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force,
  the Nigerian Military and the affected Paramilitary formations to
  fish out the lists containing names of their officers and personnel
  posted to the Southeast Region and road routes linking it between
  August 2015 and December 2018.
• The purpose of fishing out the names of officers and
  personnel of the affected security agencies shall be to have the
  N100b criminal proceeds deducted from their monetized remunerations
  including pensions of those already retired; in addition to
  commensurate deductions from the remunerations of the immediate
  past IGP; the COAS, the Chief of Defense Staff, the Chief of Naval
  Staff and central heads of the affected Paramilitary formations
  (Custom, FRSC, NDLEA and NAFDAC).
• The Governors of the Southeast and Delta State and other
  top political office holders and leaders from the Region are called
  upon to immediately and strongly rise to the occasion to
  effectively checkmate the militarization
  and northernization of top military, police and
  other critical security formations and command structures
  in Igbo Land. Their present lopsided composition as graphically
  represented in the table segment of this special report is not only
  rejected and unacceptable but must also be reversed and equitably
  reconstructed or rebalanced.
• There shall be constituted “an international criminal enquiry”
  by the United Nations via its Security Council into the Nigerian
  Military Massacre Operations in Eastern Nigeria (August
  2015-September 2017) with a view to exposing the atrocities,
  fishing out their in-service, out-service and ex-service
  perpetrators and referring them to ICC or ad hoc UN or regional or
  domesticated crimes tribunal(s) for trial under Chapter VII of the
  UN or referral powers of the UN Security Council (UNSC).
• At the appointed or appropriate time, there shall also be
  constituted “Panel of Enquiry into Military Rights Abuses &
  Violations in Southeast or Eastern Nigeria,” covering August
  2015-September 2017. The Panel of Enquiry shall be set up by the
  Southeast or Eastern Governors Forum; with legislative inputs
  (resolutions) from all the eight or five of the eight States Houses
  of Assembly in the Region.
• Members of the international community especially the
  western democracies and the UN as well as international human
  rights organizations are particularly called upon to take
  diplomatic and other international justice notice of the named
  perpetrators and their atrocity crimes for purpose
  of declaring them “persona non gratae” including
  arrest and prosecution in their respective countries or at regional
  and international borders.

• The named perpetrators both retired and serving members of
  the Nigerian security establishments and public office holders
  shall also be slammed with appropriate international
  sanctions including being blacklisted and made ineligible in all
  regional and international military, policing and other security or
  diplomatic engagements including corporate and individual
  or intergovernmental consultancies, contracts, partnerships,
  exchange visits etc. Such sanctions shall be invoked
  using int’l legal instruments like the Leahy Law of USA
  1966 as amended; among other international deterrent
  measures.
• Other non judicial sanctions under recommendation against
  the perpetrators include denial and withdrawal of visas from the
  perpetrators and their families, freezing of their accounts and
  seizure or confiscation of their assets abroad; exposing their cash
  and properties stashed abroad,  if any, etc.
• The apostles or advocates of  international
  justice around the world including the “CIVITAS Maxima” of
  Switzerland are again called upon to open global campaigns against
  the named humanity or atrocity crimes’ perpetrators that would lead
  to their arrests in foreign soils to face the named crimes against
  humanity perpetrated by themselves or in their names or under their
  authorization.
• The perpetrators can arrested and charged locally,
  regionally and internationally through the instruments
  of municipal, active personality, passive
  personality and universal or international
  criminal jurisdictions or sued through the
  instruments of civil claimant litigations;
  such as the Torture Victims Protection Act of
  1992  of the United States of America,
  etc.

Conclusion & Special Links

By the above,
therefore, Intersociety is bringing to
conclusion the segmental releases of its three years research work
titled above. We hereby pronounce released, the full report (85
pages) and the victims’ album (62
pages). The report and its album version
is already up and running on our
website: www.intersociety-ng.org^[1]. The
link to the said research-Special report is
here: http://intersociety-ng.org/phocadownload/2019/under%20buhari%20and%20osinbajo%20many%20have%20gone%20and%20crippled%20for%20life%20in%20eastern%20nigeria.pdf^[2]

Again, for easy access and reading of the report, (1) the link
to its Executive Summary is here:http://intersociety-ng.org/component/k2/item/406-intersociety-begins-the-release-of-its-special-report-on-military-massacre-operations-in-eastern-nigeria^[3],
(2) the link to the names of defenseless citizens massacred
and others critically injured or crippled for life is
here: http://intersociety-ng.org/component/k2/item/407-names-of-defenseless-citizens-killed–crippled-for-life-by-buhari–osinbajo-government^[4], (3)
the link to the lists of vicarious and direct perpetrators of
the massacre is here:http://intersociety-ng.org/component/k2/item/412-vicarious-perpetrator-in-the-september-2017army-python-dance-11-massacre-in-abia-state^[5].

To access the Report’s pictorial evidence or victims’ album,
visit our website and click under “MASSMEDIA”. The special report
and the victims’ album are also attached in this statement and
formatted in the PDF files.

Int’l News Report of The Special Report

Gladly, the special report has also gone international and was
well published yesterday; Tuesday, 5^th February
2019 by Washington DC based Christian Post (Int’l Online),
CP, an internationally respected  Christian
persecution, human rights and international justice media
watchdog; with branches across Americas and Europe including
Dublin, Ireland. The special news report is
titled: 480, mostly Christians, killed in Nigerian
‘military massacres’ from 2015-2017: NGO report

Happily, the special news publication of
the Christian Post Int’l (CP) also drew
“conservative” and “progressive” comments or viewpoints
from John Campbell, the former U.S.
Ambassador to Nigeria during the George W. Bush, administration and
a current senior fellow of Africa Policy at the
Council on Foreign Relations and Nina
Shea, a prominent international human rights lawyer
and director of the Center for Religious Freedom at
the Washington-based think tank Hudson Institute. The
news report and views of the duo are found
here: https://www.christianpost.com/news/480-mostly-christians-killed-in-nigerian-military-massacres-from-2015-2017-ngo-report.html^[6]

Intersociety remains eternally grateful to
Nigerian media particularly  the leading online news
publishers in Southern Nigeria and our teeming friends and
followers in various social media platforms as well as a couple of
Nigerian print media; for their immeasurable assistance to us in
the course of segmental releases of the Report. Those wishing to
access or obtain the Special Report and its pictorial
album from source can contact
us via info@intersociety-ng.org^[7] or
on whatsapp via +2348174090052.

Finally, it must be put on untainted record and authoritatively
stated that no government or security forces including the
Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo Government and its security
forces and personnel in Nigeria are permitted to visit unspeakable
and grisly state violence as was done in Eastern Nigeria on members
of civilian and defenseless population. Not even criminal
stigmatization and labeling including terror tag empower the
security forces and their commanders to engage in act of grisly
mass murder and widespread body laceration.

Even in war situations, killing of the uninvolved or defenseless
civilians and the wounded combatants or attacks on non
military necessity are all tantamount to commission or
perpetration of war crimes; not to talk of mass
killings perpetrated in non war situations. One of the chief aims
of this special report is to make COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and
his company to run from pillar to pole for the rest of
their lives defending themselves and kissing the iron bars of the
prison over grisly and industrial scale crimes
perpetrated against innocent and defenseless Judeo-Christian Igbo
citizens of Nigeria so as to serve as a deterrent to others.

Signed

For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of
Law

• Emeka Umeagbalasi (B.Sc. (Hons) CSS, M.Sc.
  PCR)

Principal Official/Board Chair

• Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq. (LLB, BL)

Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program

• Chinwe Umeche, Esq. (LLB, BL)

Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program

• Chidimma Evan Udegbunam, Esq. (LLB, BL)

Head, Campaign & Publicity Department

Mobile Line: +2348182411462, +2348174090052

Email: info@intersociety-ng.org^[8]

Website: www.intersociety-ng.org^[9]

PDP in Gombe an opposition in waiting -Dr.
Gwamna

Dr Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna, A Chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Gombe State says President Muhammadu Buhari’s
visit to Gombe has finally paralyzed the Peoples’ Democratic Party
(PDP) in the state and made it an opposition in waiting.

Gwamna who made this disclosure while fielding questions from
newsmen in Gombe said the PDP was yet to recover from the colossal
damage that the visit of Buhari to Gombe has inflicted on them.

According to him, since the return of democracy in 1999, no one
has pulled the kind of crowd that President Buhari got over the
weekend when he visited the state.

He said that the visit of the president to the state had proven
to all stakeholders and the world that APC had become a political
religion in Gombe, adding that the victory of APC at all levels in
Gombe would be a landslide.

“Today, I can tell you that PDP has become an opposition in
waiting. After the general elections, many will forget if we ever
had PDP in the state. Majority of those in the PDP now have their
hearts in the APC but for fear of losing their daily bread, they
have remained in the party to mourn silently,’’ he said.

“The visit of the president to Gombe State has paralyzed if not
finally buried PDP in Gombe. Many now see what I saw then that made
me defect to the APC and now they are coming in their numbers to
join the winning team.

“We have lived and risen with the political knowledge of Gombe
politics and governance. But I can tell you that never in the
history of Gombe state, since its creation, has she welcomed such
an ocean of gathering. The support as well as the kind of crowd
that the APC is putting up in Gombe State is heart-warming.

The APC chieftain said he was confident that Alhaji Inuwa
Yahaya’s chances of becoming governor were enhanced by over 70 per
cent by the president’s visit. He added: “Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya is a
lucky man and his victory has been guaranteed by over 70 per cent.
This is the first time a seating president was campaigning for
Inuwa; so, you see that he has received the mantle of leadership by
that jinx’’.

Dr. Gwamna however, cautioned that all APC supporters should use
the remaining days to collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs)
so as to speak loud and clear that Gombe electorates have divorced
the PDP in the state.