It is on record that on the 30th day of March 2023, the members of the Islamic Shiites Movement of Nigeria, embarked on a peaceful protest a...
During this peaceful protest within the FCT, the combined
team of the Nigeria Security Agents led by the Nigeria Police Force,
intercepted the protesters, and peacefully dispersed the thronging crowd with
mere teargas and nothing more. There were no casualties recorded and no arrests
made.
Today, the 6th day of April, 2023, the members of the
Islamic Shiites Movement of Nigeria, embarked on another peaceful protest
within the FCT. Again, no arrests were made, no casualties were recorded.
In contrast, on the 3rd day of April 2023, members of the
non-violent Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) staged a peaceful protest in
Aba, Abia state to demand for the release of their leader – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu, who is still being illegally and unconstitutionally detained in solitary
confinement at the facility of the Department of State Services (DSS),
headquarters in Abuja, in gross violation of the Order of the Court of Appeal
that directed for his unconditional release.
The members of the IPOB peaceful protesters were brutally
attacked by the same combined team of the Nigeria Security Agents led by the
Nigeria Police Force, and during the bloody attack on the non-violent and
unarmed protesters, ten (10) persons were gruesomely murdered in broad day
light, and five dead bodies were confiscated by the Nigerian Security Agents,
while over one hundred and fifty (150) persons were arrested and taken to an
undisclosed location till date.
You will observe that the members of the Islamic Shiites
Movement of Nigeria, conducted their peaceful protest in Nigeria’s Federal
Capital Territory and not even in Kaduna state. Yet, they were neither attacked
nor gruesomely killed. Please recall that this group is still politically
proscribed in Nigeria.
Unfortunately, for a similar peaceful protest, the
non-violent members of the IPOB were not dispersed with teargas, but brutally
attacked, killed, corpses confiscated, and harmless protesters arrested and
taken to undisclosed locations.
Sadly and most unfortunate, this goes to clearly reveal that
there are different laws for separate groups of persons in Nigeria, and
different strokes for different folks.
We are, therefore, calling on the Federal Government of
Nigeria to wade into the recent genocidal massacre in Aba, Abia State and call
her security agents to order and direct for the immediate release of the
corpses of those killed to their families for proper burial, as well as the
immediate release of the 150 peaceful protesters arrested and taken away.
Enough of this genocidal massacre of innocent and unarmed
civilians in the South-East of Nigeria by overzealous security agents.
Again, we appeal for wise counsel to prevail!
Signed:
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq. (KSC)
6th April, 2023.
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