The ulterior motives and purpose Amnesty International represents for which it has made false reports about and supported opposition to government and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are now beginning to unfold, The DEFENDER gathered.
This was as revelations had just been made about its new plan to join in the spread of unverifiable reports the likes of which Cable News Network (CNN) just failed in projecting over the October 2020 destructive #ENDSARS protests.
Making the revelations was the Buhari Media Organization (BMO), which alleged that the Amnesty International and its local collaborators are plotting to set up a parallel investigative panel to investigate alleged human rights violations and abuses suffered by protesters during the #ENDSARS protests with the intent of destabilizing the country and discrediting the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
The group also alleged that a substantial fund running into US$750,000 (N360,000 000) has been provided and paid into an account outside the country for this purpose, adding that the organizers are still expecting more funds for the hatchet job they have signed up for.
Addressing journalists Tuesday in Abuja, National Coordinator, BMO, Niyi Akinsiju, alleged that these local collaborators, operating under the guise of Coalition for Survival of Covid-19 and led by a prominent human rights lawyer, are bent on discrediting the judicial panel investigating the alleged Lekki shootings and the defunct SARS’ alleged brutalities.
Akinsiju further alleged that the modus operandi of the perpetrators will include using people who will be identified as military men, with their faces masked, to present damaging ‘testimonies’ against the Army authorities.
He said that the group also has it on good authority that the United States’ Cable News Network (CNN), which blatantly refused to appear before the Lagos panel on its so-called investigative report on the Lekki incident is bracing up to give full coverage to the gathering.
The BMO leader said the Covid-19 coalition is supposedly on a mission to enrich ongoing investigations into ‘age-long abuses suffered by Nigerians in the hand of members of the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS)’ in as many as 30 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where panels have been set up.
Akinsiju argued that the purveyor of the purported investigative panel should have used the open platform of the judicial panel in Lagos to prove their claim of the massacre at the Lekki toll gate on October 20 instead of colluding with Amnesty International which is still struggling to manufacture evidence of its allegations of a massacre that night by soldiers.
“Gentlemen, we have reasons to believe that this investigative panel which they intend to run parallel with the States’ Judicial Panel, is nothing short of a charade paid for by Amnesty International and Transparency Initiative to smear the image of the Nigerian Army with contrived testimonies.
The group urged security agencies to be alert “to the antics of these lackeys of foreign bodies who rather than use their coalition for the purpose of galvanizing Nigerians to survive the negative impacts of Covid-19 and ensure equity is served through the ongoing public sittings of the judicial panels across the country, are more interested in helping their paymasters sustain the lies that they have been unable to prove for weeks.”
Some Nigerians, who spoke on the new development, are saying the Buhari government is to be blamed because it did not have to allow Amnesty International to continue to exist in whatever name or guise, remotely or otherwise, in Nigeria, considering its past roles supporting Boko Haram terrorists against the government and military in the North East.
It will be recalled the supposed civil society organisation was severally àccused by Nigerian Army and other patriotic citizens of always raising human issues when Boko Haram insurgents were killed or arrested while showing indifference to losses of soldiers and innocent citizens from the hands of the devil agents.
“Its activities became disgusting and counterproductive that Nigerians had to protest against its continued existence in the country,” one of them said.
