*As ranking Senator, others ask them to leave Nigeria, Army alone
*Same international organisations refused to support our fight against insurgency – Ndume
*Says, they refused to refer to Boko Haram as a terrorist organization
… but rather prefer to refer to the insurgents as non-state actors
*We thank God we have not America alone as our development partner – Angry Source
*Says, see what we have achieved with China as our development in five years of Buhari in power
*Asks US to deliver Nigeria’s Tucano planes paid for
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Many of our respondents believed that the failure of government to have tackled CAN and its political collaborators is largely responsible for why insecurity has lingered in the country as many of the evils are said to be done hiding under religion.
The long and much-talked about conspiracy of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and presumably West owned Amnesty International has finally been exposed.
This is as more Nigerians including the former Senate Leader and sitting Chairman Senate Committee on Army, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, joined in the talks about roles the two bodies of international community allegedly play in how insecurity has been made to escalate in the country.
It will be recalled The DEFENDER has been reporting how many Nigerians had identified Amnesty International as a major support base for terrorism that has claimed thousands of lives in the North East of the country with more still being recorded, even as other criminalities including organised kidnapping, armed robbery and cultism have sprung up mainly in Southern part of the country.
We also have been reporting to our truth seeking readers, globally, that Nigeria was peaceful until these international conspirators started their predictions mainly about how the Africa’s most populous nation had spent 100 years and so was due to collapse into pieces of small nations, which climaxed with the anticipated victory of an incorruptible Army General in Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 general elections, when their predictions – through local religious persons claiming the ‘Voice of God’ – not only failed but collapsed on their heads because, aside the fact that the country refused to collapse, Buhari won the all-important presidential election.
“It was no wonder that Nigeria, where armless Boko Haram and their violence-free protests started in 2009 under late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua administration, has never been allowed to know peace as the anti-Nigeria unity agents, who are a combination of both foreign and local elements, not only saw the armless Jama’ah of some Muslim extremists as ready tool for advancing their course. The extremists’ Jama’ah was, as things turned out to look, strengthened with weapons and then declared – by United States of America – as terrorist organisation and so its members were made to take over nonconventional bombing activities from militant Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), first ever to carry out nonconventional bombing in Nigeria. Since then, they have been killing innocent people across religious groups mainly Muslim and tribes mainly Hausa-Fulani’s Northern Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, you have some human rights groups like Amnesty International who would always raise human rights issues when these terrorists are either killed in battle or arrested. A latest such claims was where one Human Rights Watch was loudly reported by media in Nigeria that 3,600 children linked to Boko Haram fighting were jailed by Army. These are some of the things they do. How can you be claiming to be anti-terrorism and at the same time you support terrorism?
*File: Femi Falana (SAN): Accused of being ICC local collaborator against government and Army, raising human rights issues in fight against anti-Nigeria elements.
“Well, we thank God we no longer have America alone as our development partner. See what we have achieved from partnership with China under five years of Buhari in power. We paid America several hundreds of billion Naira for 12 Tucano planes in 2018. Trump acknowledged the payment and promised to complete delivery by 2020. Instead to talk about delivering our planes, what they now do with their local collaborators using ICC to scare us, as if we care, is how to investigate us for ‘war crimes’ the same America that up till now has refused to honour ICC’s summon for war crimes against innocent country and people of Iraq,” an apparently miffed source submitted.
Our investigations further revealed a no longer covered fact that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) positions itself as vehicle that the conspirators use to drive their confusion with intent to quicken the delivery of their goal – collapse of the country. Although CAN, like others in its camp such as some human rights groups, lawyers, media and other activitist persons,are groups of citizens whose living begins and ends with Nigeria, The DEFENDER’s deep dig into why they could accept to collapse own only nation on themselves in war revealed “love for dollar weight – money and hate for a particular section of the country and religion”, especially when a member of that section and religion is in power.
Ayokunle, CAN President.
A member of Board of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Prof. Kamal Bello, had told The DEFENDER in an interview in Kaduna that “We in the North do not know why the South always cause troubles whenever a Northerner is in power, to make Nigeria bad so that he will not end well.” Although President Muhammadu Buhari, for whose reason the anti-Nigeria unity now remember why the country must break, has refused to acknowledge claims of the likes of ACF board member, CAN was explicit in its political campaigns ahead of 2019 election when it said Christians in the country must not vote for Muslim candidates across levels and Northerner as President.
CAN’s penchant for manufacturing of lies and clear misrepresentation of reality on ground, we gathered, play a leading role in the crisis the nation has witnessed. It was, however, joined by National Christian Elders’ Forum (NCEF) membered by persons who refer to themselves as ‘Retired Christian Generals’ and who, like CAN, also heated up the polity especially as the general elections in the past year was fast approached. These religious groups chose to make the killings by Boko Haram terrorists look like only of Christians and the US, especially under President Donald Trump, believed them. Reason, therefore, Trump invited President Buhari to Washington DC and put the most unbelievable question to him: “Why are you killing Christians in Nigeria?”
But the Muslim Community in Nigeria under the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), since these evils of the West projected by the religious groups and some others working under the disguise of youths and civil societies started getting unfolded, has never failed to speak out that it sees and know what is going on. To the Muslim Ummah and North, these conspiracies are mainly either calculated attempt to kill Islam in Nigeria by destroying its traces everywhere, for instance the crisis being brewed over Arabic Letters on Naira currency, the Muslims and cause troubles in the land any time a Northerner or Muslim is President of the country.
So, the NSCIA and some of the many Islamic bodies under its control, such as Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), The Muslim Congress (TMC), National Council of Muslim Youths (NACOMYO), even Islamic bodies at regional and state levels such as the Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN) and the Oyo State Muslim Community, have never spared the CAN as they continue to expose it and its atrocities, which even many Christians see and refuse to back it over. At a point, they asked the supposedly Christian umbrella body to register as a political party so it would be clear it was out to seek political office and that, else, it should stop its open anti-Muslim campaign whereby it shows no disdain to call on Nigerians not to vote for any Muslim as candidate at elections. They however also knew the CAN was working for a foreign interest, which was mainly exposed when it publicly described the worldwide lockdown which affected all religious, educational and recreational centres in the country as persecution of the Church by the Muslim Northern President in the country. CAN added that the worst enemies of Christians in Nigeria was not Coronavirus but the persecutors of the Church, its coded message was made clearer in the direct attacks on Buhari’s personality and Federal Government. At the end, US Trump administration went and blacklisted Nigeria as a national persecuting the Christians because CAN told it that and it believed.
The anti-Nigeria agents stepped up their activities in the buildup to 2019 general elections, when their religious representatives predicted dominated the media space with saddening ‘news’ of how “Nigeria will break into pieces by year 2019”. More dishearteningly, even their foreign media such as The ECONOMIST magazine joined in the “spiritual” predictions. Under Pastor Samson Ayokunle, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) got more wings by a Trump-led America to do the confusionist work in Nigeria and so, at every crisis, the supposed religious group was found at the basis.
Example, The DEFENDER gathered from some angry members of the Muslim Ummah that, “CAN is good at supporting religious atrocities like it did standing with religious killers of Muslim Army General, Idris Alkali, who was later found to be killed and he and his car thrown into a pond in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. CAN supported the rejection, when military search by the Nigerian Army for his missing body and killers was rejected by Christian women, who protested naked against it. Again, when a Yola, Adamawa State court sentenced five youths to death for killing a Fulani man and throwing his body into a river, it was CAN that was found objecting to it describing the Guilty-of-Death as Christian youths as if it was going to prove that “Christianity is about murder”, and we know that as untrue because Christianity is not about myrder. Those atrocities are but synonymous with CAN and its international sponsors against the Muslim Ummah of Nigeria,” he said.
Our investigations also revealed how these international conspirators used CAN to do more damages to Nigeria’s public peace socially and economically.
“Records have it how it addressed press conference to misrepresent the setting ablaze of eight Muslims in Zamfara State as setting ablaze of eight Christians, knowing the implications of such twisted information to national security. It took quick intervention of then Governor Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari to address another press conference, produce confirmed details of the people unfortunately set ablaze by some miscreants and then challenged CAN to bring out where Christians were set ablaze anywhere in Zamfara State. I tell you, up till today, Pastor Ayokunle’s CAN is yet to answer to that and, to the chagrin of many of us, Muslims, in the South and in the majority North, President Buhari’s security agencies have not seen reason Christian Association of Nigeria leaders must be arrested and brought to justice to explain themselves why they are conspiring with foreign collaborators to collapse their own country. Now, tell me, you are the Journalist here, when government sees who the sponsors and promoters of insecurity bedeviling Nigeria are and continue to fail to bring them to justice, how can insecurity stop? Have you forgotten the confirmed Christian youths that was caught and arrested wanting to bomb a big Church in Kaduna and how CAN struggled hard to make the world believe he was a Muslim bomber until Allah exposed those CAN leaders?”
Many of our respondents believed that the failure of government to have tackled CAN and its political collaborators is largely responsible for why insecurity has lingered in the country as many of the evils are said to be done hiding under religion.
“Well, we thank God we no longer have America alone as our development partner. See what we have achieved from partnership with China under five years of Buhari in power. We paid America several hundreds of billion Naira for 12 Tucano planes in 2018. Trump acknowledged the payment and promised to complete delivery by 2020. Instead to talk about delivering our planes, what they now do with their local collaborators using ICC to scare us, as if we care, is how to investigate us for ‘war crimes’ the same America that up till now has refused to honour ICC’s summon for war crimes against innocent country and people of Iraq,” an apparently miffed source submitted.
Leave us and our Army alone – Ndume
Ali Ndume.
Among Nigerians, who have seen the truth about international conspiracy working mainly with some local collaborators in destroying Nigeria using Boko Haram, Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), Indigenous People of Biafra, #RevolutionNow and #ENDSARS movements among others to actualise their goal of collapsing Nigeria, especially under a man that is believed never participating in their corruption and atrocities now in power, is Senator Ndume and he is speaking aloud to ask the ICC and Amnesty International to “leave us and our Army alone”.
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army from representing Borno State, on Tuesday called on the Amnesty International (AI) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to leave the Nigerian military alone over alleged incidents of human rights abuses.
Ndume made the assertion while answering questions from reporters in Abuja on allegations of human rights abuses against the Nigerian Military by AI and the ICC.
He urged the Nigerian troops to ignore what he termed as distraction by the two international organizations and concentrate on their task of fighting insurgency in the country.
Ndume said: “On the issue of unnecessary interference by Amnesty International and the International Criminal Court and other self-acclaimed celebrities and social media influencers who claimed to be patriotic Nigerians.
“We that have been living with these problems, and as leaders of the affected communities, know the feelings of our people.
“Right now, what the ICC is trying to do is destroying things instead of helping matters.
“You cannot cry more than the bereaved and they cannot be the prosecutor without the plaintiff. How can they prosecute without the plaintiff?
“We have the Nigerian government, the federal parliament and the nation’s judiciary. If there are human rights abuses, it is only when there is a failure on the part of the three arms of government to act swiftly that we can draw the attention of the international community to it.
“Nigerians are more concerned about securing their country. The Nigerian Army and the police are overwhelmed already.
“Honestly, we will stand up against that. We are not encouraging human rights abuses, we can’t say there are no such things but they are definitely, isolated cases especially when the Boko Haram insurgency reached its peak in 2014.
“There was a kind of confusion that led to the isolated cases of human rights abuses by the Nigerian Army and some of the armed forces.
“However, we stood up against it that time and that led to some soldiers’ court martialed for human rights abuses. Some were even dismissed from the Army.
“For example, for involving in rape cases. It is not that the Nigerian Army is not doing anything about it.
“There is a department known as civil-military relations, created by the Nigerian Army to address such cases and they are doing well.
“The power of investigation lies with the National Assembly. Nigerians know where they would report cases of human rights abuses to in case it happens anywhere.
“Let the Amnesty International and others leave us alone. These are the same international organisations that refused to give us support needed to fight the insurgency.
“The same international organisations also refused to refer to Boko Haram as a terrorist organization but rather prefer to refer to the insurgents as non-state actors.
“I don’t know what they mean by that. As a parliament and as the representatives of our people, we won’t tolerate that.
“Our troops should ignore such things and concentrate on securing our country. If the international agencies want to help us, they should provide sophisticated equipment to address the issue.
“As the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army is thinking of bringing a motion to the floor of the Senate to address this particular matter and write to the particular organization to leave us alone.
“Or if they want, let them tell us where human rights abuses exist in the country. They should stop distracting and threatening our gallant troops that have sacrificed their lives to defend the country.
“As representatives of the people, the Nigerian parliamentarians are solidly behind our military on this issue.”
He lauded the cooperation between the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Air Force that led to the success recorded against Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State recently.
He said: “I want to thank the Nigerian military especially the Army and the Air Force. My investigation reveals that were it not for the presence of the Air Force, the success recorded would not have been achieved.
“That is why I want to emphasis the need for cooperation between the Army and other armed forces to continue.
“I want them to also improve on their response to any alarm or alert from any member of the public.
“What happened that day was that a citizen of Askira called me around 5pm and also sent a text message to alert me of a large gathering of Boko Haram insurgents in about 10 trucks heading towards Askira.
“He urged me to do something urgently about it. I quickly forwarded the text message to the Chief of Army Staff and that of the Chief of Air Staff.
“The two of them responded quickly and assured me that they were monitoring the situation.
“There was a coordinated effort between the Air Force, from their base in Yola and there was reinforcement from the Brigade in Chibok.
“There is also another battalion that is operating in Adamawa. They converged to address the situation and they recorded a tremendous success because many of the insurgents were killed while arms and ammunition were recovered from them.
“The Army and the Air Force combined to pursue the insurgents until they neutralise them. If they continue like this, cases of incessant attacks by insurgents in that area will stop it.
“I also want to commend the civilian JTF and the vigilante groups because all of them worked together to record that success.”
