Re-Ordered Election Day Killing: Buratai & His Squad Of Kaki Goons Risk Kissing The Iron Bars Of The Prison For 1000 Years (Each) Without Parole …SBCHROs

The Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights &
Democracy Organizations (a coalition of 22 human rights &
democracy organizations) are very certain and bold that
the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai has chronically
become power drunk, blood thirsty and uncontrollable; christening
himself “Nigeria’s Gen Pol Pot (of Cambodia) of the 2000s AD”.

Having already been swimming, inescapably and damnably, in the
blood of thousands of murdered and blood stained injured Nigerians
such as over 1200 Shiite Muslims, over 480 Igbo dominated
defenseless citizens of Eastern Nigeria; 240 civilian detainees in
Maiduguri’s Giwa Military Barracks including 29 children and babies
between newborn and 5yrs; 236 Rann Christian IDPs in Borno State,
50 rural Christians in Adamawa and 159 children in the Northeast,
to mention but few; the COAS and his squad of kaki goons are undone
and bent on shedding more blood of innocent and defenseless
Nigerians.

In other social climes, military generalship is earned through
wizardly and expertise in modern military soldiering including
sharp mental, forensic and scientific soldiering, but in the
Nigerian Army of Buratai’s era, the likes of Buratai’s military
generalship is earned through civilian butcheries, locomotive and
archaic soldiering as well as litany of other in-service atrocities
and immoral conducts.    

It is on record that while Paul Geidel.
Paul Geidel Jr. (April 21, 1894 – May 1, 1987) was
the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States and the
world, whose sentence ended with his parole after being convicted
of second-degree murder in 1911, aged 17, Geidel
served 68 years and 245 days in various New York state prisons;
kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was one of those in the world
sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years.
Parole means that a prison sentence, no matter how
long, can be adjusted at a later date.

A millennium jail sentence is a period equal to 1000
years, also called kiloyears; usually spanning beyond a
convict’s lifetime with perpetual blacklisting and quarantining of
his or her remains after death. 1000 years jail sentence without
parole or commutation usually arises from criminal court
convictions against a repeat offender over numerous count charges
of classified crimes or perpetration of different types of heinous
crimes. As part of same, a criminal court can sentence an offender
for multiple years of imprisonment and have same convicted person
sentenced for more years for other count charges including second
degree murder, etc.

In modern global military tradition governed by the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 as well as other principles of international
law, military orders are divided into two: negative and positive or
enforceable and unenforceable military orders. Under these,
military commanders are enjoined to obey only lawful and
“enforceable” military orders and discard the opposite. Obedience
to unenforceable military orders expressly amount to serious breach
of international law and it is heinously punishable. Unlawful
military order is any order that is not in accordance with spirit
and letters of the Constitution and its surrogate laws or
international law.

Therefore, the widely reported vow by the Chief of Army Staff,
Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, to obey to the letter the incoherent
“death-for-ballot snatchers” order of President Muhammadu Buhari
is, to say the least, shocking and highly regrettable. Apart from
being a clear cut admission of guilt or responsibility over the
military massacres highlighted above, the COAS’s re-ordered killing
is also grounded in figurative expression (i.e. simile). That is to
say that the “death-for-ballot-box-snatchers” further means “vote
against PMB or defend anti PMB votes and die or be killed on the
spot”. This is more so when ballot box snatching skeletally takes
place in the broad day light but becomes widespread at late night;
when most soldiers must have retired to their liquor and brothel
joints with their rifles.

Therefore, the COAS’s re-ordered killing on Nigeria’s Election
Day is nothing short of preemptive and psychological terrorization
of the country’s 72 plus million PVC holders particularly those in
the Southeast, South-south and potential opposition voters in the
North and Southwest Nigeria. From the analysis of the COAS’s “vote
against PMB and die” statement and associated threats, the Nigerian
Army has singled out four South-south States of Rivers, Delta,
Cross River and Akwa Ibom for Election Day military siege,
infliction of widespread fears and brutal suppression of the
electoral wishes of voters in the areas.

The Nigerian Army must also have been frustrated by the eleventh
hour suspension of election boycott calls in the Southeast and
South-south and decided to do it the hard way; in the context of
“the lesser the voters’ turnout in the areas, the brighter the
rigging chances in favor of their C-in-C” . Similar signs are also
beginning to emerge in the Northeast States of Taraba and Adamawa
and North-central States of Benue, Plateau, Kwara and Nasarawa as
well as Northwest State of Southern Kaduna; all witnessing heavy
military presence and unleashing of military and psychological
terrorization.

The major aim of the Nigerian Army, headed by Lt Gen Tukur
Buratai, in all these, is to heighten tensions and psychological
fears among the voters in the above named areas with massive
military deployment and sundry brutalities so as to scare away many
of the voters and have a field day to engage in several sinister
electoral practices for purpose of returning their present “C-in-C”
to power at all costs and against the sacred electoral wishes of
most voters in the areas.

On the other hand, the areas not included in the above such as
the Northwest States of Kano, Kebbi, Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina and
Jigawa; the Northeast States of Borno, Gombe, Bauchi and Yobe; the
North-central States of Niger and Kogi; the Southwest States of
Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Osun as well as the South-south State of Edo
are expected to have lesser or a fraction of military presence and
military generated tensions; leading to mass turnout of the voters
in the areas.

The States of Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Jigawa, Kano,
Northern Kaduna, Borno, Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe and Niger and to some
extent, Kogi and Muslim areas of Nasarawa are expected to witness
widespread under-age, alien and multiple voting with security
agencies looking the other way. The relaxation of the use of card
readers in the above named areas particularly in their rural parts
is most likely going to be widespread; whereas in the named
Southern parts and Christian areas of the North, the reverse is
most likely going to be the case in large scale proportion; under
the red eyes of the drafted security agencies. Partisanship is also
expected to let loose among the country’s security agents
especially along North-South and Muslim-Christian divides.

The Coalition, therefore, makes bold to say
that the above highlights clearly constitute the “other side” of
the COAS; Lt Gen Buratai’s re-ordered killing and associated
military threats on Nigeria’s Election Day.  Nigerians and
members of the international community including foreign poll
observers are, as a result, invited to critically study and analyze
this statement and compare same with what will play out from the
confines of the Nigerian Army, Lt Gen Buratai and his squad of kaki
goons on Election Day or tomorrow, being 23^rd Feb 2019
and hours following same.

Far from the figurative meaning of the COAS’s re-ordered killing
and related others, the COAS and his squad of kaki goons risk
kissing the local and international iron bars of the prison for
1000 years without parole over all military associated killings or
deaths in the country or any part thereof, in relation to the said
Poll. Specifically, the COAS and his squad of kaki goons shall be
held responsible for killings or deaths investigatively traced to
the doorsteps of the Nigerian Army from 6pm, today, 22^nd
Feb 2019 to 6pm tomorrow, Saturday, 23^rd Feb 2019. There
is also high possibility of holding the Army and its COAS culpable
in the event of any killing that may occur between 6pm Sunday, Feb
24^th to 6pm Monday, Feb 25^th 2019.

The Nigerian Army must be lest assured that such killings, if
occurred, shall be expertly investigated including determination of
circumstances, places, dates, time and identities of those killed
and their killers. Principles of use of force including self
defense, proportionality or dis-proportionality of same as well as
available legal instruments governing election security and limits
of the military in the use of force, etc shall also be forensically
considered. It gladdens our heart that the COAS and his accomplices
have been formally, legally and expertly dragged to the ICC over
the massacre and maiming of hundreds of unarmed and defenseless
Nigerian citizens in Eastern Nigeria; on account of recent research
work of Intersociety. From the look of things, the
names of the COAS and his squad of kaki goons are in a verge of
making it again to the ICC and other domestic international
criminal courts. Times and circumstances shall tell!

Finally, Nigerians particularly voters from all over the
country, irrespective of their religion, sex or ethnic backgrounds;
with the exception of double registrants or PVC owners, multiple,
underage and alien voters or PVC holders are called upon or invited
to file in reports of any military intimidation especially blockade
and denial of voting access and shooting, maiming or killing of any
unarmed and defenseless citizen; to the Coalition
or Intersociety or Southeast CLO.
Such established complaints can be sent to us through the following
contacts: southeastrightscoalition@gmail.com^[1], info@intersociety-ng.org^[2], closoutheast@yahoo.com^[3], or +2348035090548,
+2348174090052, +2348035372962.

Exclusion of double registrants or PVC owners,
multiple, underage and alien voters or PVC holders is
in no way a license to kill them
summarily but to arrest and punish them lawfully and as prescribed
in the extant laws of the country including Electoral Act of the
Federation, as amended. Citizens filing such complaints must
primarily ensure that circumstances of the incident including
killing, maiming and intimidation or brutalization; identity of the
victim, location, date and time of the incident; photos and videos
where possible, as well as the uniform or personal identity of the
perpetrator (s),  etc are included in their preliminary
reports to the Coalition.

Jointly Signed

For: Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights &
Democracy Organizations (SBCHROs)

Special Reps:

• Emeka Umeagbalasi-08174090052
• Aloysius Attah-08035090548
• Jerry Chukwuokoro, PhD- 08035372962
• Prof Justice Chidi-Chidi-08039100804

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