Hall Of Infamy Award 2015: Southeast Human Rights Coalition Names DSS As Chief Enemy Of Democracy & Rule Of Law In Nigeria Hall Of Infamy Award 2015: Southeast Human Rights Coalition Names DSS As Chief Enemy Of Democracy & Rule Of Law In Nigeria 07 Nov, 2015 by Global Reporters Print this article Font size -16+ (Onitsha Nigeria, 7th November 2015) – The Coalition of Southeast Human Rights Organizations operating in the Southeast Nigeria wishes to alert Nigerians and the international community concerning the unconstitutional resurrection of Nigerian State Security Decree 2 of 1984 (Detention of Persons Without Trial); otherwise called Decree No 2 of 1984, which allows for indefinite and incommunicado detention of Nigerian citizens without recourse to competent and diligent judicial process. Also unconstitutionally resurrected with Decree No. 2 of 1984 is another obnoxious and anti democracy decree called Decree No.4 of 1984 (Public Officers Protection against False Accusation); extensively used to arrest and clamp media practitioners into indefinite and incommunicado detention for publishing reports deemed inimical to the interests of members of the ruling military brigandage or cabal. The two infamous decrees were promulgated in 1984 by the current sixth civilian President of Nigeria, Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari when he served as Nigeria’s post Second Republic maximum military ruler. It is vividly recalled that a former minister of police affairs and a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Dr. Yakubu Lame had recently disclosed publicly of how uncomfortable the current Presidency is with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and the Principles of the Rule of Law and called for suspension of same and enactment of and bestowment of special powers on President Muhammadu Buhari to enable him to perform. Our extensive checks have further revealed that the two criminal decrees appeared to have been suspended, but not repealed legislatively when the civilian governance was restored in 1999. Also, of all the State coercive or armed security establishments answerable, by administration and control, to the Presidency, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) is closest and directly controlled by President Muhammadu Buhari. In other words, the DSS performs special duties function for President Muhammadu Buhari, which makes it believe that it is above the law and the Constitution of Nigeria 1999. This is also contained in Section 3 (2) (a) of the Nigerian Security Agencies Act Cap 74, Laws of Nigeria 2004. The DSS is one of the three successor-security intelligence agencies of the moribund National Security Organization (NSO), which was extensively deployed and used by Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari to enforce his two infamous decrees under reference in 1984 leading to countless disappearances, unlawful arrests, long custodial detentions, torture and unlawful killings. Today, just less than 160 days in office of President Muhammadu Buhari, the DSS has already run riot on citizens particularly the dissenting voices already marked out as presidential enemies. From Gordon Obua to Sambo Dasuki; from Rivers and Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioners to Hon Justice Muazu Pindigi; and from Sambo Dasuki again to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, the list of the DSS riotous conducts and operational brigandage in less than 160 days of the Buhari’s Presidency has continuously been on rising. Of all the coercive or armed security establishments under the present Buhari’s administration, the DSS is the most extensively used and deployed by the Presidency to perpetrate and perpetuate all kinds of anti democratic and anti constitutional conducts. These explain our inclusion of the DSS in the hall of infamy award and bestowment of Chief Enemy of Democracy & Rule of Law Award on it. The DSS’s recent statement in which it claimed that it is a respecter of the rule of law and judicial process is vexatious, insulting and a mockery of the country’s constitutional and pluralistic democracy. Our collective questions are: where lies the DSS’s pro democratic and rule of law claims when it autocratically invaded and laid siege on the residence of Sambo Dasuki who is under the protection of a court of competent jurisdiction? What has the so called “failure to honour presidential committee’s invitation on arms procurement” got to do with an interior intelligence security body and its riotous invasion of his residence? Is a presidential committee on arms procurement a court or judicial panel of enquiry? Why did the DSS not arrest former Governor Rotimi Amechi to enforce his appearance before Governor Wike’s panel of enquiry in Rivers State? What is the security rationale behind DSS invitation of Sambo Dasuki’s surety (Boni Haruna)? Has Sambo Dasuki jumped his court bail? Assuming Sambo Dasuki has jumped court bail, is DSS a court and which bench warrant is it executing? In all these, where is the Nigeria Police Force and has DSS taken over the constitutional and statutory functions of the Police? Our speaking out is also strikingly emboldened and gladdened by yesterday’s open and courageous expression of free speech by millions of Nigerian citizens of Southeast, South-south, northern minorities and other Nigerian moderate citizens all over the world; registering in unmistakable forms their contempt and disapproval over the brazen re-introduction by the Buhari’s Presidency of exclusivist, segregated, primordialist, ethnocentric, oligarchic, corruptive, archaic, discriminatory, suppressive and oppressive presidential governing styles in Nigeria. The collective meaning of the thunderous free speech expressed yesterday (6th November 2015) in hundreds of Nigerian cities and foreign capital cities is that Nigerians under Buhari’s administration are not ready to be taken to Kabul (Afghanistan) or Harare (Zimbabwe) and that anything short of them being taken to Seoul (South Korea) or Taipei( Taiwan) ...

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I feel the celebration of Columbus Day is an insult to the indigenous people of this country and distorts the true history of the United States.

Because it is a real shame that grandparents can be "terminated" at will. A grandparent/grandchild relationship is beneficial to all involved. The kids are hurt more when this happens. We have to push forward when we are shoved back. I want the laws to reflect that a grandparent who has been involved since their births, helped raise these kids, DOES have a right to maintain that "special" relationship. Something needs to change.

From lying to Congress to start a needless war in Iraq that has destabilized the region, to playing a part in the authorization of state sponsored kidnapping and torture, and then allowing the company he once ran to receive no-bid contracts in Iraq, Dick Cheney deserves prison time rather than any type of national honors! Join me in a unified voice to tell Congress that We the People will not honor Dick Cheney and we do not want the hard earned money we pay to the government to fund this reprehensible folly!

"Demanda a Oregon para restablecer licencias de conducir. Organización sin fines de lucro de Oregon presentó una demanda legal hoy para reinstaurar una ley estatal que permitiría a la gente del estado sin estatus legal en EE.UU. a obtener licencias de conducir. El Oregon Law Center señaló que es ilegal que el estado haga cumplir la Medida 88 del referendo dado que fue por motivos de regular las leyes de inmigración, labor que le corresponde al gobierno federal, indica la demanda. Entre los acusados en la demanda están la gobernadora Kate Brown, al director del Departamento de Transporte estatal, varios miembros de la Comisión del Transporte y al administrador del Departamento de Tránsito de Oregon. La vocera de la fiscal general del estado Ellen Rosenblum, Kristina Edmunson, dijo que el Departamento de Justicia de Oregon representará a los acusados. Edmunson se negó a comentar sobre la demanda pendiente". -Iván García Journalist "Demand Oregon to restore driver's licenses. Nonprofit organization Oregon filed a lawsuit today to reinstate a state law that would allow the people of the state without legal status in the US to obtain driver's licenses. The Oregon Law Center said it is illegal for the state to enforce Measure 88 referendum because it was based on laws regulating immigration, work that belongs to the federal government, the lawsuit said. Among the defendants in the suit are Gov. Kate Brown, the director of the state Department of Transportation, several members of the Committee on Transport and administrator of Oregon DMV." Journalist Ivan Garcia This is the time. Let's BE HEARD AND MAKE A DIFFERENCES NOW. SIGN NOW. Share with friends, family, etc. Firma AHORA para hacer la diferencia...compartan con amigos, familia, etc.

A bridge has been deemed unsafe due to load bearing test. Now, the entire TAX PAYING community that has children that go to Hutchings Elementary are terribly inconvenienced. Now there is only 1 road out of the school. Latson Road. That means there is only 1 way for emergency responders to get to the school. That could mean the difference between life and death. On a smaller note, many people go over the bridge to go through the back entrance of the school to pick up and drop off their children. This bridge needs to be fixed. The information I've been given is that there are zero funds available for use on this bridge. Zero funds when I see all of Detroit and Flint and Pontiac have road crews fixing bridges. Unfortunately since we aren't in an urban area, we just get to pay for the bridges of other communities and our own does not get fixed. We all pay taxes to the state of Michigan.

Busts of former Vice Presidents, though a long standing tradition, should not be slavishly continued without considerations for the past. I do not believe that Dick Chaney served his country well. I believe that he did more harm than good. Perhaps we should reconsider? What do you think? Time is short. The unveiling of the marble bust of Vice President Richard Cheney will be on December 3, 2015. Let your voice be heard on this issue.

Let's end time change every six months! It's hard on everyone: students, workers, and seniors!

My son was kidnapped from my arms by my domestic abuser and taken over state lines on false testimony and perjury--but through the court system at a secret hearing! There has been much abuse done to me and my son since July 2015 by King County Superior Court, My abuser-Adam Lewis, and his lawyer, Nathan Cliber. My son is gone and I cannot even get a hearing to present evidence when this is a known and state documented domestic abuser, and erratic child abandoner/abuser. All evidence points to that--the courts refuse to look at evidence.

The Halloween weekend alone brought the city’s violence level to 2,578 shot this year with 378 killed by gunfire. 20 year old Kaylyn Pryor and 9 year old Tyshawn Lee, were killed by gun violence this week. How many more innocent lives need to be taken? We can no longer allow the killing to continue. We need to come together to tackle this violence that is crippling our communities. Let's join together to continue raising the awareness, and try to put an end to Chicago's violence problem.

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