Amnesty International slams Nigerian govt failing to address tortures, extra-judicualial killings of citizens
Addressing a press conference in Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Thursday, the AIN Researcher and Media Manager, Damian Ugwu and Isa Sanusi, respectively, regretted federal government’s actions when it comes to addressing and investigation of right violations.
“We wrote to the Federal Government, then, the Military Government to tell them that they should respect the right of President Buhari and allow him the freedom to leave his normal life, Obasanjo and many others were declared prisoners of conscience, we fought for them and now they are politicians who are fighting us.
In 2017 December, Nigerian government signed anti torture Act, which makes it criminal to torture detainees, up till now, no Police officer has been placed on trial, while we know that torture is still going on, we want to see people brought to book for violating human rights, we want to see people go to jail for torture, extra judicial execution and ill treatment and killings,” the duo stated.
“We documented in one of our reports and government promised to investigate, up till now, we are not aware of anybody who has been sanctioned because of that and so many violations.
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