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January 23, 2025 
    
Kenya, The Headquarters of government sponsored Abduction in Africa  COLONIAL OCCUPATION AND domination prospered by abducting and liquidati...
Kenya, The Headquarters of government sponsored Abduction in Africa
IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu Drags Ex-Aide To Former President To Court Over False Accusations Of Terrorism, Demands N100 Billion Damages
Kenya, The Headquarters of government sponsored Abduction in Africa 





COLONIAL OCCUPATION AND domination prospered by abducting and liquidating the most vocal Africans. Those whom it drove into exile were lucky. Sir Evelyn Baring invented the manual on this form of predation as governor of colonial Kenya for seven years until 1959. Six decades after independence, the man who rode to power in Nairobi two years ago by promising to make Kenya great again is unapologetically reprising Sir Evelyn’s manual minus the internment camps.



In June 2021, Abubakar Malami, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and Nigeria’s Federal Attorney-General, announced with some relish that Nnamdi Kanu – self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – had been returned to Nigeria after being “intercepted” in an un-named location. Malami had initiated the prosecution of Mr Kanu in 2015 for treason. In April 2017, the courts granted bail to Kanu. Five months later, he disappeared from public view after soldiers raided his country home in Abia State in south-east Nigeria leading to scores of fatalities. The following month, Mr Kanu was reportedly sighted in Jerusalem.






The circumstances of Mr Kanu’s return to Nigeria in 2021 degenerated quickly from mystery to controversy. The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), whom Nigeria initially credited with assistance in the “interception”, firmly denied any involvement in the operation.



When he announced the “interception” of Mr Kanu, Attorney-General Malami claimed that it was accomplished by the “collaborative efforts of Nigerian intelligence and security services.” In October 2022, however, Nigeria’s Court of Appeal found as a fact that Mr Kanu “was in Kenya; was abducted therefrom and there were no extradition proceedings undertaken before his forcible abduction.”






Kenya unconvincingly denied involvement in the abduction. Very importantly, however, the Government of Kenya (GOK) offered no protest against what, was a spectacular violation of its sovereignty. The conclusion had to be that the GOK authorised Mr Kanu’s abduction from its territory. Prior and subsequent conduct by the GOK provide ample evidence to support this.



On 2 February 2018, operatives of Kenya’s security services used explosives to gain entrance into the premises of former student leader and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, from where they abducted him into detention incommunicado. After several days of keeping him out of circulation, they drove Dr Miguna to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, where they declared him a “prohibited immigrant” and deported him to Canada.




As a prominent student leader during the regime of President Daniel Arap Moi in the 1980s, Miguna was exiled to Canada. From there he sought several times without success, to renew his Kenyan nationality documents. Canada eventually granted him refugee status and he travelled initially under documentation provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before eventually being forced to acquire Canadian nationality.



Upon returning to Kenya in 2007, Dr Miguna enrolled as a lawyer; served as senior adviser to the Prime Minister and subsequently ran for high public office. It was not in dispute that his parents were Kenyans or that he was Kenyan by birth and descent. In a decision on 14 December 2018, the High Court of Kenya found that the government of Kenya abducted and deported Dr Miguna “despite court orders directing that he be produced in court,” noting that “it is inconceivable that the state can deport its own citizen to a second country without due regard to the constitution and the law.”




William Ruto was Kenya’s Vice-President when Mr Kanu and Dr Miguna were abducted. In 2022, he became president.



On 16 November 2024, leading Ugandan opposition politician, Dr Kiza Besigye, who was in Nairobi to attend the launch of a book by former Kenyan Justice Minister and senior lawyer, Martha Karua, disappeared. Five days later, he surfaced before a military tribunal in the custody of the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF) on fanciful charges of illegal possession of firearms. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed shock at “the abduction of Ugandan opposition politician Kiza Besigye on 16 November 2024 in Kenya and his forcible return to Uganda.”



Dr Besigye’s experience was not the first abduction of Ugandan opposition in Kenya. In July 2024, Kenya’s security services similarly snatched 36 members of Dr Besigye’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who were in the country for a meeting and expelled them to Uganda into the arms of the UPDF, who promptly charged them with “terrorism” before a military tribunal. The United Nations later expressed concern that President Museveni’s practice in Uganda of charging civilians before military tribunals was “in contravention of the country’s obligations under international human rights law.”




In October 2024, Kenyan authorities similarly abducted seven Turkish refugees and refouled them back to Turkey into the arms of the government that had exiled them.



In the period since the anti-Finance Bill protests in the country from June to December 2024, Kenya’s National Human Rights Commission has reported the abduction and disappearance of at least 82 persons. Some of the abducted have turned up dead. When young people in Nigeria protested two months after their colleagues in Kenya, the Nigerian government decided to borrow a leaf from President Ruto’s playbook.



Back in Nairobi, one of the victims of these abductions by the GOK was Leslie Muturi. His father, Justin Bedan Muturi was Cabinet Secretary (Minister) for Public Service in President Ruto’s government. Around June 22, 2024, Leslie Muturi disappeared. At the time, his father, Justin, was the Attorney-General of Kenya and sat in the National Security Council with the Director of National Intelligence Service, Noordin Haji.



In the past week, Justin Muturi has narrated how his effort to locate his son took him through the entrails of the High Command of Kenya’s deep state to the presence of his boss, President Ruto, who ordered Noordin Haji to release Leslie. Less than an hour thereafter., Leslie returned to his family.




Justin Muturi’s clinical account of what transpired in the disappearance of his son establishes the culpability of Kenya’s president and the security high command under him in resuscitating a culture of state-sponsored abductions redolent of the worst excesses of Sir Evelyn Baring’s colonial era abuses.



After denying culpability last November, President Ruto promised on 28 December 2024 to end the abductions, in effect admitting state complicity. Two days later, the continental human rights body of the African Union expressed “profound alarm over reports of abductions and enforced disappearances in Kenya.”



Less than a fortnight into the New Year, Tanzania’s leading independent journalist, Maria Sarungi Tsehai, survived an abduction from a shopping mall in Nairobi. Ms Tsehai and her family have been exiled in Kenya for over four years. Maria was lucky. Two years earlier, Kenyan police officers murdered exiled Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif, in Nairobi. Despite a court order and appeals by the United Nations, his killers continue to escape accountability.



When they re-established the East African Community in 1999, the original partner states in East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – desired to advance transactional life and spaces in the region. Under current leadership, however, these states are now using regional integration to advance the expendability of African civic and transactional life. They are collaborating across inter-state borders to liquidate critics and perceived enemies and make their lives precarious.



It seems clear that these abductions in Kenya are taking place under the direct command of the government or, even more frightening, have been outsourced to non-state actors acting under the authority and protection of the State. The latter may explain the intractable nature of the abductions and the inability of Ruto’s GOK to bring the crime under control despite the assurances of the President and the escalating diplomatic costs and investment runs.



This was hardly what Kenyans or the rest of Africa hoped for when the people chose President Ruto’s vision of a “hustler” nation over the other options in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election. The only hustle now under his watch is the hustling of innocent citizens and visitors into enforced disappearance and exile. Sir Evelyn must feel exceedingly proud of William Ruto from the comfort of his grave.





    

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January 5, 2024

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

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Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) calls for a congressional hearing after reiterating its extreme disappointment that the U.S. Department of State yet again failed to designate Nigeria and India as Countries of Particular Concern (CPC), despite both countries repeatedly meeting the legal standard. Despite this disappointment, USCIRF welcomed the State Department’s decision to include Azerbaijan on its Special Watch List (SWL) for committing or tolerating severe violations of religious freedom pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).

“There is no justification as to why the State Department did not designate Nigeria or India as a Country of Particular Concern, despite its own reporting and statements. USCIRF calls on Congress to convene a public hearing on the failure of the State Department to follow our recommendations,” said USCIRF Chair Abraham Cooper and Vice Chair Frederick A. Davie.

“Days before Christmas, hundreds of Christians were killed in Nigeria, along with their Pastor. This is just the latest example of deadly violence against religious communities in Nigeria that even the State Department has condemned. The majority of Commissioners have travelled to Nigeria and noted the threats to freedom of religion or belief and the deadly implications to religious communities,” stated USCIRF Chair Cooper and Vice Chair Davie. “In India, in addition to perpetrating egregious religious freedom violations within its borders, the government has increased its transnational repression activities targeting religious minorities abroad and those advocating on their behalf.”

“USCIRF rejects the State Department’s decision to omit Nigeria and India as CPCs. We met with the State Department on many occasions to sound the alarm about these countries, but not all of our recommendations have been followed. We will not be deterred and will continue our role as a congressionally mandated watchdog to ensure the U.S. government prioritizes religious freedom as a key component of U.S. foreign policy,” they added.

The State Department re-designated 12 countries as CPCs—Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Furthermore, the State Department again issued waivers on sanctions for Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. In its 2023 Annual Report, USCIRF recommended the re-designation of those 12 countries without any waivers and also recommended CPC designation for Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Syria, and Vietnam.

The State Department placed Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic (CAR), Comoros, and Vietnam on its SWL. USCIRF recommended in its 2023 Annual Report that Algeria, Azerbaijan, and CAR be placed on the SWL, in addition to Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

“USCIRF acknowledges the State Department accepted our recommendation to include Azerbaijan on its SWL. At the same time, USCIRF is disappointed that the State Department did not include our other recommendations for CPC or SWL. Though Vietnam is included on its Special Watch List, USCIRF strongly believes Vietnam should be designated a CPC based on the State Department’s own reporting on the government’s religious freedom violations,” said USCIRF Chair Cooper and Vice Chair Davie. “USCIRF formally requests a detailed justification by the State Department as to why our policy recommendations were not fully implemented, including lifting the waivers.”

The State Department also designated eight EPCs, which are non-state actors that engage in particularly severe violations of religious freedom pursuant to IRFA. USCIRF recommended the redesignation of seven of these actors in its 2023 Annual Report: al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Houthis, ISIS-Sahel (formerly known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara or ISGS), Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP, also referred to as ISIS-West Africa), and Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM).

Since the issuance of its 2023 Annual Report, USCIRF has consistently shared its recommendations with the U.S. Department of State and Congress. In early December 2023, USCIRF met with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to reiterate those recommendations. USCIRF released publications on India’s State-Level Anti-Conversion Laws, Ethnonationalism and Religious Freedom in Nigeria, and State Control of Religion in Azerbaijan, and many others. In 2023, USCIRF held hearings on Iran, Burma, Russia, Cuba, Tajikistan, Vietnam, India, and Iraq.

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan federal government entity established by the U.S. Congress to monitor, analyze, and report on religious freedom abroad. USCIRF makes foreign policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress intended to deter religious persecution and promote freedom of religion and belief. To interview a Commissioner, please contact USCIRF at media@uscirf.gov.




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Baroness Patricia
Scotland QC,
Commonwealth Secretary General,
Marlborough House, Pall Mall,
London SW1Y 5HY,
United Kingdom

October 1, 2023

RE: NIGERIA SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM THE COMMONWEALTH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES & FOR EROSION OF DEMOCRATIC GAINS THROUGH A FRAUDULENT ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL.

Dear Baroness Patricia Scotland QC

Madam SG, I am a member of the Commonwealth. An Investigative journalist, a Pan African by birth, an international activist, an international watchman who defends MILLIONS OF THE VOICELESS CITIZENS. Therefore, what happens in any Commonwealth nation affects me. I was born in Uganda and I reside in United Kingdom the Headquarters of the Commonwealth; therefore, a better Commonwealth is s plus to me.

Madam SG you and I have struggled for people's rights across the globe. In 1998 as the Attorney General you were instrumental in the formation of ICC to watch against Human Rights abuses in the world. In Britain we belong to the same Party of Labour Party which I have voted for three decades.

Madam SG, Nigeria with a population of 220 million people would have been a FRONT GATE for the entire Commonwealth &Africa. But something is very strange. It has never worked before and is not working now and it might not work in future unless a miracle comes.

Madam SG, since 1966 there has been a loss of democracy and latent encouragement of destruction of human Rights in Nigeria, and now from 2010 Nigeria has become a HAVEN of terrorists, killings, abduction of people, rampant corruption and now judicial electoral fraud that could breed violence in the country.

Madam SG, you are QC and you have been before many courtrooms in the world. It is in the doctrine of good law that an Election Petition needs to be approached differently from other litigation because it is not a dispute between the individual parties at court. But between each party at court and the entire country represented by the population that voted in the election.

Madam SG, any Tribunal or court applying technicalities in election petition adjudication commits an act of punishing the entire country for filing errors made by legal counsels. This certainly has no bearing with justice, fairness and good conscience.

Madam SG, it is an ant-people application of legal 'punctuation errors' to favour vested interests other than the people themselves. In democracy election of leaders must emanate from the choice of the people whether concluded at the polls or decided in the courtroom. The COURT in Abuja slaughtered all the rules of LEGAL fraternity.

Madam SG I want to inform you that I attended Chatham House meeting where the INEC Chairperson described to the entire world how WONDERFUL the PREPARATIONS for the February 2023 Elections were to be. I have also read the report of Commonwealth Observer Team and I concluded that Nigeria needs to be called out for HUMAN ABUSES.

Madam SG but democratic Justice can only be done at election petition when the Judges focus on extracting the will of the people already expressed in the disputed elections, from the evidence presented before it, not on any legal 'punctuation error', aka technicalities.

Madam SG, the Commonwealth law is very clear. It was sad that the 5Judges relied on technicalities for election petition rulings that throws up winners that suffer illegitimacy crisis that ultimately bear negatively on the country. This includes the courts and the entire judicial system.

Madam SG, it should be noted that in the recent times in Nigeria, you hear of expressions like 'Supreme Court Governor' or 'Supreme Court Senator', etc. these are peoples' voices of rejection for such individuals; affirming that they were not elected by them but imposed on them by the court.

Madam SG President Tinubu is a "TRIBUNAL PRESIDENT "not peoples elected President. This of course debases the courts and reduces the confidence of the people in the Judiciary, and very likely further encourage electoral violence and conflicts by desperate politicians who will fight at all costs in the field since they no longer trust the courts to look at petitions on their merit.

Madam SG it has become a norm that employing technicalities in election petition adjudication is an easy way to compensate bad acts with good rewards. It is a way to encourage bad people with lots of money to venture into politics and grab power, knowing that even if they cannot win the peoples acceptance and votes, they can do so with violence, and then rely on the courts to validate their roguery.

Madam SG, this done with the gavel by simply inducing it to look for a technical error in the petitioners' filing upon which to kill the possibility of hearing the substantial issues in the petition.

It is a recipe for enabling emergence of leaders who have no compassion for the citizens nor feel they owe anyone the duty of accountability. No country in the common wealth can make meaningful development this way.

Madam SG, if good conscience, honesty, integrity and democratic principles are elements for assessing the ruling of the Nigeria's 2023 PEPC, then it will in no way pass the test of democratic worthless and of course not worth celebrating.

Madam SG there are those celebrating it - for whatever reason I don't know.

Nevertheless, it is only a matter of time before those who celebrate become victims of the comeuppance of such an anti-people legal validation of an obvious outcome of a fraudulent process.

The Judiciary owes Nigeria and humanity a duty to rectify the wrongs of this ruling. The

onus lies on the higher court to either reset this normalisation of the abnormal or

sustain it.

Madam SG whichever way the higher Court adjudicates in future, all Nigerians of goodwill and conscience that have remained resolute standing with the truth, especially those going through persecutions for that sake, must keep their faces up and celebrate their courage in standing with the truth at a time they are the most endangered species in Nigeria's sociopolitical economy.

Madam SG North or south, East or West, truth is truth, it does not change. In the man that truth dies, living is nothing less than a putrid existence. To turn the truth into a lie for money is to have sold one's soul and essence at that amount.

Madam SG your team of Observers might have seen what they wanted to see or observe. But under the circumstances that prevailed and the way the courts have shown the world true colours of justice I personally will not hide behind the cloak of 'fake patriotism' to ask people to move on in error.

Madam SG you as a senior counsel of highest bar you know it well, that no good will ever come from persistence in error. Error plus error is more error. To think that abundant good will sprout from bad is nothing but delusion. Nemo dat quod non habet- no one can give what they don't have.

Madam SG, Zimbabwe was suspended from the commonwealth on alleged grounds of fraudulent election in 2002. Why has the commonwealth not reprimanded Nigeria for all the bad deeds of election fraud and abuse of human rights using judiciary.

Madam SG, I draw your attention to the fact Nigeria is the only country in the Commonwealth still HOLDING POLITICAL PRISONERS on trumped up charges up now.

Madam SG, why have you in your own capacity as SG of Commonwealth not intervened

to ask why a man is kidnapped from one Commonwealth country to another and the

Commonwealth is silent on the matter?

Madam SG, I have written this open letter to alert you about the deteriorating human Rights records in both Nigeria and Cameroon (Biafra & Ambazonia) that are member states of the Commonwealth. Britain the head of Commonwealth stands for values of humanity. It cannot head an organization which watches of human Rights abuses and call itself a COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS?

Madam SG, this letter seeks to remind you about the time of campaign for the first term of office where our CORE value was to bring peace and harmony to the nations of COMMONWEALTH. It is a letter to make my position clear that most of us campaigned for you in the African Commonwealth because we wanted accountability in the Commonwealth.

Madam SG, in conclusion I put it to the public that Nigeria's May 2023 Election was a SHAM and if the Commonwealth gave it legitimacy then God is the SAVIOUR for all of us. Such a democratic deficit could brew into a future conflict for the leading Commonwealth state in

Africa.

Madam SG, Nigeria should have been SUSPENDED from the Commonwealth for eroding the very principles of democratic foundation that Commonwealth stands for. The weak oversight roles have led to the destruction of democratic space in most Commonwealth states of Africa.

Madam SG, perhaps the Commonwealth should think of starting CIVIC education on matters of democracy and Elections in most Commonwealth Africa. Apart from Tanzania and South Africa where tension has been low on Presidential SLOTS due to the use of SIMPLE majority system other states with 50+1 systems have had ROUGH after elections.

Madam SG, I leave a question for you and those who will read this historical letter: In Nigeria 94 million Registered voters were recorded by INEC, out of this 68million did not come out to vote and only about 26million cast their vote, then a COURT of 5 Judges who were appointed by the ruling party sat and decided a matter of UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE of the over 200 million people ON A TECHNICALITY NOT ON SUBSTANCE-SO WHERE IS THE RATIONALE?

GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH

Thanking you in advance

I remain

Yours truly

Dr. David Nyekorach - Matsanga

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN OF PAF

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST/ PEOPLES WATCHMAN/ACTIVIST

1.10.2023
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October 12,2022


 The UK Supreme Court on October 11, 2022 began considering the legality of Scottish moves to hold a new referendum on independence next year without the consent of the government in London. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s nationalist government in Edinburgh wants a fresh vote on the question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” On October 10 2022, she told her Scottish National Party’s annual conference the hearing would not have been necessary if the UK government in Westminster respected Scottish democracy. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP)
 

 

The UK Supreme Court on Tuesday began considering the legality of Scottish moves to hold a new referendum on independence next year without the consent of the government in London.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s nationalist government in Edinburgh wants a fresh vote on the question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

On Monday, she told her Scottish National Party’s annual conference the hearing would not have been necessary if the UK government in Westminster respected Scottish democracy.

“But Westminster has no such respect. That means this issue was always destined to end up in court sooner or later — better, in my view, that it is sooner,” she said.

“If the court decides in the way we hope it does, on 19th October next year there will be an independence referendum.”

The Supreme Court hearings will see senior lawyers wrangle over the powers of the devolved parliament in Edinburgh versus Westminster.

Opening the proceedings, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, Scotland’s top law officer, said the issue of Scottish independence was a “live and significant one in Scottish electoral politics”.

“The question of whether such a poll is within the competence of the Scottish parliament… is an issue that I invite this court to finally resolve,” she said.

The SNP ran in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary elections on a promise to hold a legally valid referendum after the Covid crisis subsided.

It now wants to go ahead but the UK government, which has to give approval under the Scotland Act 1998, has not given permission.

New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss in a television interview this month reiterated her view that the last referendum in 2014 was a once-in-a-generation event.

“I’m very clear there shouldn’t be another referendum before that generation is up,” she added.


Opinion polls now indicate that voters in Scotland are near evenly divided over the question of independence.

The last referendum in 2014 saw 55 percent of Scots vote “no” to breaking away.

But this came before Brexit, which most in Scotland voted against, and the parliamentary election, which saw a majority of pro-independence lawmakers elected for the first time.

The Scottish government wants to be able to create its own legal framework for another vote, arguing that the “right to self-determination is a fundamental and inalienable right”.

But the UK government argues that Scotland cannot act unilaterally in a “reserved” matter concerning the constitutional make-up of the United Kingdom as a whole, where the government in London holds sway.

To get around this, the SNP-led government wants to hold an “advisory referendum” to test support, without immediate change.

The Supreme Court hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population, ruling on points of 
Five judges including Supreme Court President Robert Reed, will consider the proposed referendum on Monday and Tuesday.

They will examine the legal validity of a referendum bill proposed by the SNP that sets a referendum date of October 19, 2023, with a ruling at a later date.

“The court is unlikely to rule in favour of the SNP –- but those in favour of the Union should not see this as a defining victory,” wrote Akash Paun of the Institute for Government think-tank.

If thwarted in court, the party plans to make the next general election, due by January 2025 at the latest, a de facto referendum, campaigning on a single issue.

Sturgeon on Monday said a legal defeat would leave the Scottish government “a very simple choice: put our case for independence to the people in an election or give up on Scottish democracy”.

“I will never give up on Scottish democracy,” she added.



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By HILLARY ESSIEN • JULY 7, 2022
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Boris Johnson is expected to resign today as UK prime minister following mass resignations from key members of his cabinet.  



BBC’s political editor Chris Mason reported early on Thursday that Mr Johnson planned to stay as prime minister until autumn so that a Conservative leadership contest can be held and a replacement confirmed. 

The BBC also reported that a campaign to replace Mr Johnson had begun. 

“Suella Braverman has expressed an interest in the top job and there will be others including – but not limited to – Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat and Jeremy Hunt,” Iain Watson said on Thursday.

This week, there have been over 50 resignations from Mr Johnson’s government.

The resignations saw a spike, mostly from junior ministers, after the departures of Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Wednesday. 

The collapse in cabinet support came after it was revealed that Mr Johnson promoted Tory MP Chris Pincher despite knowledge of misconduct claims against him.</>

Recently appointed Education Minister Michelle Donelan is the latest to leave Mr Johnson’s administration, as she resigned a day after being promoted to Education Minister, replacing Nadhim Zahawi.

Mr Johnson’s time as prime minister was tumultuous as he had faced multiple scandals including scaling a confidence vote last month.

The resignations came as Mr Johnson apologised for supporting a former minister despite complaints of sexual misconduct being made against him. The latest scandal came as a former senior official said Mr Johnson had been briefed in person on alleged wrongdoing by Tory MP Chris Pincher.

As of Wednesday, several cabinet ministers have clarified that they will not be leaving the government. The ministers included Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Priti Patel, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, and International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan.


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Since 2017, Cameroon's mainly English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been rocked by violence after separatist declared the independence of Ambazonia.


The United States on Monday announced visa restrictions on individuals accused of fueling violence in western Cameroon, which has seen vicious fighting for four years between army troops and separatist English-speaking rebels.


Members of the anglophone minority in the country’s westernmost provinces have long complained of being marginalised by the French-speaking majority and President Paul Biya, in power for 38 years.


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the visa restrictions would apply to those “believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the peaceful resolution of the crisis in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon.”


“We continue to call for both the Cameroonian government and separatist armed groups to end the violence and engage in a dialogue without preconditions,” he added in a statement.


It gave no details on the number or names of those affected by the US visa measure.


In the past four years, more than 3,500 people have been killed and over 700,000 have fled their homes to escape the conflict.


The UN and international aid groups say both troops and rebels have committed abuses and crimes against civilians.


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US Election: A Dangerous Leader On The Throne Of Power Puts The World In Danger


By Kelechi Okorie | Biafra Reporter

November 14, 2020

Former US President, Mr. Barrack Hussein Obama’s curiosity to install Joe Biden into power as a self acclaimed lord he is, godfather or tiger man should the word be borrowed didn’t only contravenes modern democratic ethos but also unlawfully endanger American people’s confidence in further US electoral process. Prior to my compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2010, every served corp member was placed as ad hoc staff during Voters Card Registration, which I was opportune to worked as an ad hoc staff at Kutigi, Lavuun LGA, Niger State. 

In politics both internal and external endorsement malpractices play major roles during election day(s), only comprehensive voter's card registration irregularities can profoundly be ascertained for sure for everything that has to do with Nigeria; Nigeria is well known only for fraud. It was a battle of no return to fought against all manners of voter’s registration fraud such as: multiple registrations, under age registration, inflating number of voters card registered, registration of non Nigerians etc. 

knowing the game of politicking and what it portraits for, I was hardened against the fraud to the extent complains got to my superior for my resistance, order from above as the system is run by prebendal stylish to bend the reputation with the believe in Nigeria everything is possible. An Ambassador name withheld approached us in aiding them have multiple voters registration contrary from the guiding norms which I unequivocally recommend him to INEC code of conduct in declination of such acts from us. 
 
Purpose of this piece is to drive home the comparative political fraud affinity between the just concluded US fraud mail votes election and Nigeria elections. The limbo tiger man, Mr. Barrack Hussein Obama thought he can easily enthrone Joe Biden into power using compromised mainstream media as he did in Nigeria in 2015 Presidential fraudulent election. Mr. Barrack Hussein Obama’s legacy in world politics is harmful than good. Irrespective of how civilized American people are still, Obama was tactically curious to rig in Joe Biden as USA President elect. 

Nigeria, as primordial and backward state she is, furiousness was suitably used by Barrack Hussein Obama’s camp that forced the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan out of office in favor of a dummy clown, a trojan military junta, an incompetent buffoon with a notion; ‘’keeping Nigeria one is a task that must be done’’. Unlike Nigeria, election malpractices in US is a brain work, a war of intelligent but in Nigeria, it’s an open war of aggression, a battle of do or die affair where shooting, snatching of ballot boxes and buying of votes are norms.

However, at least; President Donald J. Trump has proven ballot counting abuses won’t have head way under his nose, likewise, demonstrated that Democrat camp represents audacity of polar Islamic New World Order for jihadist extremism and emergence of totalitarian Islamic world government, rather than for personal interest, US election was not just only for the American people or Donald Trump per say, but  it is world election, forces of darkness fighting against light, surprised to Islamic kitchen Donald Trump puts them on standstill through legal perseverance. The American people in no doubt with CIA Homeland Security and invisible QFS-Blockchain watermarks code on ballots, the desire of Americans to have a deserved honest election counting is guaranteed. Same could have save Nigeria corrupt democracy had Goodluck Jonathan being courageous enough to challenge the 2015 fraudulence sham election, his timidity and fear didn’t only shown his silly laxity but also shows he is not worthy to defend what was defendable with democratic principles which could have saved life from the APC current totalitarian Nazi Gestapo military regime not to be on the throne of power. 

Perhaps, the worst mistake Donald Trump can make is to sweep the US election fraud under the carpet as his counterpart Goodluck Jonathan did in 2015 out being a coward. Of course, peradventure Donald Trump fails to uphold electoral law to bring culprits to book, US might probably turns to another semi Nigeria, once that is done, the great United States of America’s reputation becomes aftermath. Fear alone conditioned Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat before the official declaration by the Nigerian electoral body- INEC. 

Joe Biden’s wily cunning ends up a compromised world mainstream media illegal President elect base on specious, speculation, fanciful and far-fetched claimed, a President elect without been officially certified in any state by the US Electoral Management Body (EMB). The authorization by US Attorney General, Willian Barr to Department of Justice to look into the election fraud imperatively can easily encourage people of America to have accurate confidence to reflect the will of voters and electoral process. America must remain great.

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CHRISTIAN KILLINGS: Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide?

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Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide? That is the conclusion of a number of religious freedom analysts and Nigerian clergy who joined a recent online press call.

Haram Islamic Militants have for years raged against minority Christian communities in northern Nigeria, and their intention to drive out “Western” influences and establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria seems clear. But increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria’s central “middle belt” region have been attributed to Fulani cattle herders and have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.

But advocates gathered for an online press call hosted by the international advocacy group In Defense of Christians on June 25 believe that Christians are being explicitly targeted in the ongoing violence in an effort to drive them off their land. They argued that the United States and the Nigerian central government must come up with a comprehensive plan to better protect the region’s Christians.

Frank Wolf, a former member of Congress from Virginia, bluntly denounced U.S. efforts in Nigeria so far, urging the creation of a special envoy to investigate the conflict. He said he was dismayed “for America to see genocide and not do anything about it.”

“I believe it will lead to what has happened in Darfur and Rwanda; I give Congress an ‘F.’ It has failed,” Mr. Wolf, a longtime campaigner for religious freedom, said. “Every day there is a delay…in appointing this special envoy, more people will die.”

He warned that if nothing more is done to protect Christians, the crisis will not be limited to fractious regions of Nigeria. “So goes Nigeria, so goes West Africa,” Mr. Wolf said, adding, “and some people say, ‘So goes Nigeria, so goes all of Africa.’”

Increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria’s central “middle belt” region have been attributed to Fulani cattle herders and have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.

Gregory Stanton, the founding president and chair of Genocide Watch reported that since 2012 attacks by Fulani raiders, Boko Haram and other militants have killed as many as 27,000 Christians in Nigeria, more than died at the hands of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

He argued that the nature of the attacks clearly fit the U.N. definition of acts of genocide. “They now arrive with truckloads of fighters and simply massacre a Christian village and leave the Muslim village alone,” he said.

The “central government is acting like a bystander” as the attacks continue, he said.

The attacks, primarily on Christian farming communities, have been described as the result of tension over land use and traditional grazing rights. But these advocates say that narrative is belied by the clear and repeated targeting of unarmed Christians by well-armed Fulani raiders. Who is arming the attackers and what their long-term goals are remain critical issues to explore.

According to Mr. Stanton, researchers at Genocide Watch believe that Islamist extremists targeting Christian villages are acquiring weapons “from corrupt [Nigerian] army officers” and have been receiving financial support from inside Nigeria.

He believes, however, that militants may soon be able to tap into a worldwide support network among Islamist extremist groups. “Boko Haram has already said it is part of ISIS,” he said, “and we now have evidence that Fulani militias are linked up with that group as well.

“Money can come from all over the world, including the Middle East, and the danger is that this thing could blow up and become a huge problem.”

The nature of the attacks clearly fit the U.N. definition of acts of genocide. “They now arrive with truckloads of fighters and simply massacre a Christian village and leave the Muslim village alone.”
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“The future of Nigeria is bleak for Christians,” said Benjamin Kwashi, the Anglican archbishop of Jos. “I have seen far more funerals than I have seen any wedding ceremonies.”

He charged that the Nigerian government has abandoned its responsibility to maintain security and protect the vulnerable. He added, “A good number of the dead are children and women, the helpless, people that rely on the protection of government.”

Archbishop Kwashi said, “This thing is systematic; it is planned; it is calculated.” He complained that “the world doesn’t want to hear that, including the Nigerian government.”

“They have always explained it away as farmers-and-herders clashes,” he said. “There is no doubt that in history, communities have always had their clashes. The Fulani, whom we know, have always had their clashes with local people. They are usually settled. But this one is a different one because these killers are well armed.”

And, he said, they come to slaughter and burn, not to settle differences over land or grazing rights. “These are calculated, systematic, intentional killings of people and driving them away from their land,” Archbishop Kwashi said.

“Every time we had to raise our voices to say this is going on [government officials and human rights advocates] always produce a political narrative to say that it is farmers and herders clashing.

“That is an evil narrative to cover up,” he charged.

“The future of Nigeria is bleak for Christians,” said Benjamin Kwashi, the Anglican archbishop of Jos. “I have seen far more funerals than I have seen any wedding ceremonies.”
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A report on the conflicts from the International Crisis group acknowledges the increasing role of “Jihadist groups” but indeed depicts the conflict as the result of increasing tension between herders and farming communities.

According to the International Crisis Group, the violence has killed over 8,000 people since 2011 and displaced over 200,000. Many have sought refuge in neighboring Niger. But, according to I.C.G., the “violence is rooted in competition over resources between predominantly Fulani herders and mostly Hausa farmers.”

The I.C.G. reports, “It has escalated amid a boom in organized crime, including cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom and village raids.” The report does acknowledge that “Jihadist groups are now stepping in to take advantage of the security crisis.”

Anietie Ewang is a researcher for the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. She described the origins of the conflict between Fulani and Hausa farmers, both Christian and Muslim, as complex with roots both in competition over resources and longstanding ethno-religious tension. She said there have been attacks and reprisals between both communities and primarily blames government incapacity for the acceleration of the conflict. Crimes often go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, she said, and victims do not trust the government to bring perpetrators to justice.

But she argued that there was “nothing to suggest these are targeted attacks [against Christians], but there are religious and ethnic undertones because of the history and that cannot be taken away.”

“We are seeing violence on both sides, revenge attacks,” she said, “with very little being done in terms of investigation and protection and accountability on the part of the authorities.” She added, “When people don’t see accountability and justice being done, you have a society that becomes perceived as a kind of free-for-all.”

She said the Nigerian government must be held accountable to protect its citizens and prosecute wrongdoing but that it must also restart suspended efforts to negotiate the interests of Fulani pastoralists and Hausa farmers, addressing the underlying tensions between the two communities.

Recent Statements from the U.S. State Department have deplored attacks on unprotected Nigerian villages, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged the Nigerian government to do more to protect all of its citizens.

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the suggestion that the attacks on Christians could be construed as acts of genocide but said that “the U.S. government helps Nigerians prevent and mitigate inter-communal conflict through our diplomacy, security assistance, police and justice reform programs, peacebuilding, dialogue efforts and development programs.”

The spokesperson, who according to standard protocol declined to be named, added, “Given the already robust U.S. government focus on Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, we do not believe that appointing a Special Envoy would add significant value at this time.”

The spokesperson pointed out that Nigeria had been placed on the State Department’s special watch list in December 2019 after “Secretary Pompeo determined that the Nigerian government engaged in and tolerated severe religious freedom violations.”

“We remain concerned by the widespread violence across the country affecting all religions and ethnic groups, including Christians,” the spokesperson added.

According to the spokesperson, the United States is carrying out “a robust interagency effort to support our Lake Chad region partners to counter the Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa insurgencies and professionalize the military and police forces.”

Despite such efforts, more is needed to improve security for Nigeria’s Christians, according to Nigerian Christian leaders.

Pointing out that the presidency and top security posts in Nigeria are held by Muslims, the Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto charged that “this government has given quite a lot of oxygen to Islamist extremism.”

“We are really dealing with the fate of those who are out of power,” he said.

Noting the resource limitations of the church in Nigeria, he said it was his hope that the global reach of the Catholic Church could help focus more attention on the plight of Nigeria’s Christians.

“I would like to hear much much more from prominent archbishops in the United States and Europe,” he said.

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Christian Killings: Senators Ernst and Grassley Ask Trump to Deploy Special Envoy to Nigeria to End Christian Genocide

By Steve Warren

Published on The Biafra Post | 02 July 2020

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Tony Perkins, the chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, spoke with CBN News about the alarming trend that religious freedom monitors say is turning some churches and other houses of worship around the world into houses of horror.

Two Republican senators are asking President Trump to protect Christians facing ongoing brutal persecution from Islamic groups in Nigeria.

Iowa senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley recently sent him a letter, asking the president to consider deploying a special envoy to help end the Christian genocide in Nigeria.

In their letter, the senators point to 40,000 Nigerian deaths tied to the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.

Along with other Islamic militants known as the Fulani herdsmen, the Boko Haram has long threatened the lives of Christians in the West African country.

Two years ago during a meeting, President Trump asked Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to protect "innocent civilians of all faiths."

But Ernst and Grassley want more done to protect the lives of Christians.

As CBN News reported earlier this month, a report released by a Nigerian organization estimates around 620 Christians were killed in the African country by Islamic militants during the first five months of 2020 alone.

The International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law (ISCLRL), an organization not aligned with the Nigerian government, released the report which also warned militant Fulani herdsmen and the Boko Haram have intensified their anti-Christian violence in the old Middle Belt and Northeast regions of the country with the burning or destroying of Christian centers of worship and learning. In addition, hundreds of homes have been destroyed.

The ISCLRL headed by Christian Emeka Umeagbalasi noted in its report no fewer than 620 defenseless Christians have been killed since the year began with no reprisal action taken by the government or the Nigerian military forces against the Fulani or the Boko Haram.

"The atrocities against Christians have gone unchecked and risen to alarming apogee with the country's security forces and concerned political actors looking the other way or colluding with the Jihadists," the report said.

The organization also estimated that more than 32,000 Christians have been killed there by Islamic militants since 2009.

The mainstream media in the US has remained largely silent as the Muslim terrorists' merciless killing of Nigerian Christians rages on.

Nigeria is ranked 12th on Open Doors' 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution.

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Yahoo News JIHAD DENIAL: “Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism — blame colonialism”

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Published on The Biafra Post | 01 July 2020

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The propaganda is so drearily predictable. Would Yahoo News ever run a piece explaining how Sharia taught warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers? Of course not. But there is a steady stream of nonsense like this ridiculous presentation from Mark Fathi Messoud, Director of Legal Studies and Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Even before reading Messoud’s piece, look at the accompanying map. It’s a bit confusing because the color for Spanish colonies is very similar to the color used for countries that were never colonized at all, and the latter are not marked as such. But it shows that Iran was never colonized. What, then, explains the Islamic Republic, which finances jihad terror groups such as Hizballah and Hamas? Saudi Arabia was never colonized; what explains the fact that 15 of the 19 9/11 jihad attackers were Saudis? What explains jihad activity that went on for centuries before colonialism, as shown in The History of Jihad?

Also, is colonialism responsible for the tenets of Sharia mandating warfare against non-Muslims? Here is what the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib) say about that warfare:

Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.”

It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh “˜Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).

Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihad groups are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).

Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, “because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith.” It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam “the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war.”

However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)

Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”

Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that “since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.”

This is also taught by modern-day scholars of Islam. Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi scholar of Islamic law of international renown. In his book War and Peace in the Law of Islam, which was published in 1955 and remains one of the most lucid and illuminating works on the subject, Khadduri says this about jihad:
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. (P. 51)

Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book The Methodology of Ijtihad, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.

But Yahoo News will never tell you any of that.

“Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism — blame colonialism,” by Mark Fathi Massoud, Yahoo News, June 28, 2020:

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Christian Killings: Nigeria failing to protect Christian farmers from violence, British MPs says

Parliamentary report says UK aid could be better spent on stopping discrimination against Nigerian minorities

The government of President Muhammadu Buhari needs to provide better protection and justice, the report said. AFP

Jamie Prentis | June 15, 2020

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The Nigerian government is failing to protect Christian farmers from ethnic Fulani herders in a spree of violence that has displaced 300,000 people and killed six times more than the conflict with Boko Haram, a British parliamentary investigation has said.

The report the by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief (APPG) called for a rethink in how UK aid to Nigeria, estimated at more than £2 billion (Dh9.2bn), is spent to ensure religious minorities are better protected by British funding from persecution and discrimination.

The conflict between the mainly Muslim Fulani herdsman and Christian farmers has typically taken place in central Nigeria in an area called the Middle Belt States.

But despite the conflict, the report said the UK does not provide any humanitarian assistance to the area despite being one of the largest donors to the World Food Programme’s emergency operation in north-east Nigeria, where extremist groups such as Boko Haram have embarked on a murderous rampage.

The report’s authors said it hoped the government would be pointed towards “a far more rigorous and effective use of British resources".

The APPG is made up of more than 100 members of the House of Commons and House of Lords and is headed by Jim Shannon, an MP from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party.

“Attacks by armed groups of Muslim Fulani herdsmen have resulted in the killing, maiming, dispossession and eviction of thousands of Christians,” he said.

As a result of farming communities feeling they could no longer rely on authorities for protection or justice, violent reprisals on Fulani herders took place, the research found.

“Some local vigilantes, led by youths, take matters into their own hands by going on violent reprisals against Muslims, who they believe are backed by the government. Such retaliatory violence cannot be condoned,” the report says.

“However, their reprisals must be seen in the context of an urgent need for the authorities to enforce the rule of law to protect all citizens,” it adds. Vice chair of the APPG, Lord Alton of Liverpool, said some observers had described the rising violence “as a campaign of ethno-religious cleansing”.

“Armed with sophisticated weaponry, including AK-47s and, in at least one case, a rocket launcher and rocket-propelled grenades, the Fulani militia have murdered more men, women and children in 2015, 2016 and 2017 than even Boko Haram, destroying, overrunning and seizing property and land and displacing tens of thousands of people. This is organised and systematic,” he said.

While the investigation identified a number of factors behind the escalating violence, the Nigerian government’s failure to provide security or justice to farmer or herder communities was cited as a main driver.

“Failure to prosecute past perpetrators of violence, or heed early warnings of impending attacks, has facilitated the rise of armed militia, which often form along ethno-religious lines to protect community interests,” it said.

“The APPG agrees with Amnesty International’s conclusion that failure to protect communities, as well as cases of direct military harassment or violence, combined with an unwillingness to instigate legitimate investigations into allegations of wrong doing, demonstrate, at least, wilful negligence; at worst, complicity on the behalf of some in the Nigerian security forces,” it added.

Increased competition for resources, the proliferation of guns, the spread of misinformation and a breakdown in traditional dispute-resolution mechanisms have also been blamed.

Source: The National, UAE

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African diplomats have threatened to shut down their consulates following the racist attacks and maltreatment of Nigerians and other Africans by Chinese officials in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

The African Consuls-General in a protest letter to the Chinese Government noted that Africans were being denied hotel accommodation upon arrival in Guangzhou, adding that they were also subjected to an additional 14-day quarantine at various isolation centres after being cleared and issued an appropriate certificate of release by the Centralised Quarantine and Medical Observation.

They warned Beijing that their home countries might retaliate against Chinese nationals if the stigmatisation of Nigerians and other Africans was not speedily resolved.

A viral video had shown some Nigerians in Guangzhou being evicted from their homes and hotels and chased down the streets by Chinese policemen.
The Nigerians complained that they were placed under compulsory 14-day quarantine, adding that despite testing negative for COVID-19, the authorities insisted that the quarantine period would be extended by another two weeks, a directive they resisted.

The Chinese officials were also said to have confiscated the passports of the Nigerians.

A video of Mr Razaq Lawal, head of the Nigerian consulate in Guangzhou, tackling a Chinese official for seizing the passports of some Nigerians later surfaced on the Internet.

Following the incident, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, had summoned the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian, twice in a week to express the displeasure of the Federal Government on the development.

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 Written By Kelechi Okorie | Biafra Reporter April 05, 2020 New World Order International politics of interest has been a recent trend curiosity of most advanced nations, using science and technology to cultivate neo-colonialism against the vulnerable under-developed backward continent like Africa. Politics of who gets what, when and how is not exceptional in International politics. Interest is a priority of a given nation; the rampaging life threatening detriments might pose threats to less privileged nations or countries but adamant of those suppose continental leaders and representatives is immaterial and inconsiderable for any dysfunction. Accusations and counter accusations among the super powers like USA, the state of Israel, China, Russia, Germany, North Korea, France etc on outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic was a replication of 1884 Berlin Conference that divided Africa to allowed Europe to control the continent and ushered in colonialism. Now Asia as a continent has joined the technological Super Power Reform of the New World Order while Africa is snoring deeply at sleep. Exceptional of Africa, other continents such as America, Europe and Asia are assiduously working very hard through science and technology to advance and have world at their palms whereas, African leaders are brainlessly dumb to ascertain the train game in International comparative politics; invariably, making Africa continent prone for Europe and Asia as a testing foothold of experimental laboratory. Politics of interest perhaps, advanced and developed nations used two mechanisms to destroyed the world for their own self-centered interest. Politics and religions, these have posed major threats to world peaceful coexistence among others. In most cases, the sole careers or pioneers of this world leaders creates disorderliness and global imp most times and make provisions for solution on problems created but strictly in favor of incited problems created by them - the advanced nations to enable them sustain her periphery of leaving Independent African continent but otherwise very contingent in poor proportion. First, developed Nations of the world creates problems and manage it appropriately while Africa embraces the Western imported dichotomous impediments and baggage without applicable possible complementary solutions employed by Western world to smash the inconsistencies. The United States of America, currently remains the most viable advanced country in the world as of today, both in economy and military technology. Her military weaponry and technological know-how has long been a nightmare for Chinese crackdown should they eventually engage in military combat with USA. As a world policing world power, US possess threat to many envy nations like China, such might probably motivated China used trick to maneuver the New World Order at the detriment of US, to enable her becomes major policy maker at the United Nations Security Council, by so doing the end of US becomes imminent. No doubt, China with her mass indigenous productivity is competitively overwhelming USA economically, in a global economic competition with intention to cripple US sustainable economic productivity; yet the US maintains her standard as a world power. Furthermore, science and technology makes life easy with massive production, on the other hands, dampen the left behind continent like Africa. US saw the danger behind science and technology, thought it wise through her International policies banned the use of chemical weapons by any nation. Like Islamic world nations and sadist opposition Democratic Party, China joins the impertinent queue to decimate US economic wise growth and political stability led by Donald J. Trump’s stewardship in order to unseat him in the forthcoming US Presidential general election. African leaders are daft, brainless and blind to calculate the encapsulated brain behind the Chinese Covid-19 virus and its connectedness with establishing the 5G Chips, as IPOB are consciously, closely monitoring the unfolding New World Order. In a global confinement where world leaders are secretly having meetings to regulate the pandemic with self-centered interest to retain its positions in a league of International politics. Pity Africa continent is excluded in a decision and policy making conference(s) rather they viewed Africa as an experimental testing ground for Covid-19 vaccine for the emergence of New World Order as this findings corroborates with what the French doctors said over enforcing their Vaccine specimens on Africans to ascertain the level at how their ruthless Convid-19 vaccines will work and impair natural body system. They are indirectly or directly called Africans their laboratory rats meant for vaccine experiment.


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