February 15 2025 | State Media Technical Clarifications Empirically and technically clarified is the fact that the killing outside the law b...
February 15 2025 | State Media
Technical Clarifications
Empirically and technically clarified is the fact that the killing outside the law by Nigerian military and others, of 46,800 unarmed and defenceless Eastern citizens in the East in the past nine years and four months did not include estimated 4,500 offensively armed members of non-Government-linked criminal entities and members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), killed on account of being violently and offensively armed during exchange of gunfire with members of the security forces; during which estimated 2000 or more (armed state actors or members of the security forces), drawn from the military, police and others, were killed or ambushed and killed on duty patrol.
The estimated 4,500 offensively armed criminal persons/armed agitators’ deaths represented roughly 10% of the 46,800 unlawful killings or deaths: on annual average of about “450 deaths”; technically referred to internationally as “legitimate killings or deaths”.
It is also important to inform that the “4,500 legitimate deaths involving members of the armed criminal entities/armed agitators” and more than 2000 members of the Nigerian security forces are not included in the list of the 46,800 defenceless citizens’ deaths estimated or approximated by this Special International Report.
The purpose of highlighting the above is not for them to be included and legitimized in this Special International Report but to expose or unmask the reckless abandon and impunity with which officers and personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces (particularly the Nigerian Army) and other security forces and their high commands went about massacring defenceless and unarmed Eastern citizens, mostly composed of members of the active male population of the Igbo Ethnic Nationality of Trado-Judeo-Christian Faith; as well as levying an “industrial scale” war on their defenceless properties and perpetration of other heinous crimes or conduct atrocities of unspeakable nature and proportion; perpetrated, aided and abetted unchecked and with impunity in the past nine years and four months (August 30, 2015-December 31, 2024), using “IPOB/ESN/Biafra Terrorism” as a pretext.
Backed By 76 Recommendations, 15-Paragraph Affidavit And 282 Pages In Size: This Special International Report (“Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East”) is backed by 76 Strong Recommendations including Government of Nigeria, Armed Forces and Police High Commands-twenty-seven recommendations, Igbo Land Governments and Governors-twenty recommendations, Igbo Leaders in Diaspora and International Human Rights and Justice Groups-twenty-one recommendations, Nigeria’s International Development Partners and relevant UN and AU Human Rights and Justice Bodies-four recommendations and Families of the Slain, The Wounded, The Abducted and Disappeared-four recommendations. The Special International Report is also backed by a 17-Paragraph Affidavit of Facts, duly deposed before the Enugu State High Court of Justice by the Report’s Author-In-Chief, Emeka Umeagbalasi, a University-trained Criminologist and Graduate of Security Studies, with Post Graduate Scholarship in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. The Special International Report (“Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East”) is 282 Pages in size.
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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