February 15 2025 | State Media Introduction In this 5-part article, we serialize reports by NIGERIA’S LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP, Internatio...
February 15 2025 | State Media
Introduction
In this 5-part article, we serialize reports by NIGERIA’S LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP, International Society For Civil Liberties And Rule Of Law (Inter Society), in TWO SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON RIGHTS ABUSES AND VIOLATIONS IN EASTERN NIGERIA.
“Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East” represents graphic, shocking and chilling account of the Nigerian Military and other Security Forces (police crack squads, secret police, sub-state actor killer vigilantes and killer government taskforces) Siege and Terror (armed state actor conduct-atrocities) in the East since August 2015 and further captures the untold story of what is going on in the Region with regard to violent criminal activities by armed non-state actors including government-linked and non-government-linked armed non-state actors.
Relatedly, “The Human Rights Made in Nigeria” is a compilation of relevant and available local, regional and international human rights, humanitarian and universal human rights and rule of law compliant legal provisions and safeguards regulating the lawful and unlawful conducts and activities of armed citizens in Nigeria or any part thereof including armed state actors and armed non-state actors and their commanders or leaders, aiders and abettors.
The physical and soft copies of “The Human Rights Made In Nigeria” and “Ocean of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East” are given out free of charge and immortally produced for the present active and aging generations, generations newly born and generations yet to be born.
The two special international reports are built on documented reports dating back to 2015 or before then; compilation and computation of which started since middle of May 2024 (past seven months) using in-depth research and investigation skills and techniques.
“Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East” is fundamentally targeted at exposing external and internal forces found to have been responsible for the present war-zone situation of the South-East and the South-South regions of Eastern Nigeria.
The “warzone” state of public and citizens’ security and safety and their properties include grisly and egregious human rights violations and abuses: mass and targeted killings and property burnings outside the law, body lacerations, abductions, disappearances, torture and other inhuman or degrading treatments or punishments and security sector duty-post corruption particularly military, police and paramilitary roadblock and barracks extortions and other atrocities by armed non-state actors. Many non-state actors involved are found to have been procured and clandestinely sponsored by external state actors and their conspiratorial internal state actors both armed and unarmed including some past and present public office holders within and outside Eastern Nigeria particularly in the South-East.
Intellectually and forensically Identified in the Mother Report (“Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East”) are two sets of “egregious crimes against defenceless persons, their properties and the society”; namely: “state actor crimes or state-actor generated insecurity and other unsafe conditions” and “non-state actor crimes or non-state actor generated insecurity and other unsafe conditions”. The above highlighted heinous crimes are severely punishable and effectively controllable under Nigeria’s criminal, human rights and humanitarian laws or provisions and their safeguards including the Treaty Laws and Nigeria’s Regional and International Obligations.
It was the research and investigative finding by “Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East” that the Nigerian Government and the country’s heads of security forces establishments hardly pay attention to the perpetration and perpetuation of the “state actor crimes” and their perpetrators, aiders and abettors. The country’s security chiefs are also found to have cultivated the habit of incorrigibility and impunity as they hardly hold their subordinates accountable for their ‘line-of-duty conduct-atrocities’.
Serialized by:
Obi Nna
For: Lagos State Media
Edited by:
Obiageli Mboma
For: Lagos State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Lagos State Media
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