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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
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(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 Our extensive checks have further revealed that the two criminal decrees appeared to have been suspended, but not repealed legislatively when the civilian governance was restored in 1999.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 ...
Hall Of Infamy Award 2015: Southeast Human Rights Coalition Names DSS As Chief Enemy Of Democracy & Rule Of Law In Nigeria
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Nov, 2015
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(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 ...
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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
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Nov, 2015
by Global Reporters
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(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) ...
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
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(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) ...