By Our Correspondent
Niger Delta activist and criminologist, Comrade Omolubi Newuwumi, has condemned in strong terms, Amnesty International allegation of genocide against Nigeria Army, saying that the organization has lost it relevance and credibility with the lopsided and outright blackmail against the Nigerian army.
Omolubi who spoke in Warri, Delta State asked the organization to define what genocide is and tell the world when it became an offence for a nation to defend itself against external and internal aggression against an insurgent which has killed, maimed and destroy thousands of people and properties without any just cause.
“Ordinarily, I would have been tempted to keep mute over their comment but as a Nigerian and a victim of crisis (the warri crises) where condemnable acts worse than the worst genocide acts were committed against a people who still remain homeless till date and where the relics of that unwarranted aggression against the people of Itsekiris is still there to for everybody to see.
Where was Amnesty International when the Warri crisis was going on and so many other crisis in Nigeria? I mean the Warri crisis where the Ijaws almost succeeded in wiping out the entire Istsekii race from the surface of the earth.”
While calling on the federal government to resist any attempt by the organization to continue to blackmail its army, he said they has failed in their duties as they turn deaf ear or close their eyes when the Boko Haram where killing thousand of defenseless and innocent citizens and destroying churches, mosque, markets and other public places.
He said, “Amnesty international should clearly define what they they mean by genocide, is genocide committed when a nation’s army defend itself citizens from both internal and external aggression? Or what happened to Amnesty when Boko Haram were, and still killing innocent persons and bombing down institutions, schools, mosque, churches and markets filled with Nigerian citizens?”
He asked, “Where was the organization during the Warri crisis where thousands of Itsekirs were slaughter, their home burnt, their properties looted and destroyed by their Ijaw neighbors. Where the entire Itsekir race were almost wipe out from the surface of the earth. Till date the relics of that crisis is still there for all to see, people are still homeless and the places destroyed yet to be rebuilt, years after.
Again, I want the organization to take a look at the town of the Chief of Army Staff, where the Boko Haram sect killed hundreds of defenseless maimed innocent women and children and destroyed properties worth millions of naira and tell us again what they mean by genocide. Or the Nigeria army should remain hands akimbo and watch its citizen wipe out completely from the earth?”
“While I want to ask align myself with the statement credited to the Defence Headquarters that it was very curious that the body that has never been able to seriously condemn terror in Nigeria, i want to warn that such statement was capable to lower the moral of the fighting soldiers who left their homes and families behind to fight for their country.”
The organization with their recent allegation against the NIgeria army has lost it credibility and relevance and I will want the Nigeria government to stand firm in it resolves to flush and smoke out the insurgents with whatever means possible and available at their disposal.
