My country Nigeria is currently caught in an expiating crisis caused by criminals looting and vandalizing everything before them in the name of strike, inappropriately termed ‘a day of rage,’ and Amnesty International is very comfortable with that. But the same Amnesty is very concerned with the arrest of these criminals, so much so that it has been calling loudly for their unconditional release.
By Abdu Labaran
The same Amnesty International has been missing in action for the many crimes committed by the governments in its backyard, thereby proving the truism of the allegations that it was the Western World’s (Zionism’s) creation to destabilize and or change the leadership of some countries it considers as hostile, for reasons not known to the rest of the world.
All one has to do is look at what has happened to Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Korea, and Bangladesh, to name just a few countries. In all these places, Amnesty International was not as strident in the calls for ‘justice’ against the countries responsible for the crimes committed against the locals.
Just as worrying and disturbing is its absence in the condemnation of the systematic and direct brutal elimination of the Palestinians that the Jewish state of Israel is carrying out, with the open assistance and support of the Western World. The West openly supplies the money and weapons with which the Israeli government is killing the Palestinians in the little area that has remained their homeland. If Amnesty International may claim to also be doing what it is doing in Nigeria and other ‘small’ nations, then it must be doing so without such persistence and stridency, to the hearing of none but itself.
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A United Nations-sponsored Commission recently found the atrocities that the state of Israel is committing against the Palestinians and their country so atrocious and outrageous that it has declared the leadership of the offending country as criminals who must face the International Criminal Tribunal.
Not long ago, the union passed this verdict to the applause of most international organizations, with the exception of Amnesty International and a few other Zionist-sponsored organizations.
Its persistent calls on the Nigerian authorities to stop arresting the criminals show the overwhelming proof of the complicity and connivance of Amnesty International in the raging criminal activity that is threatening to bring down the administration, and the country in general. Its current efforts to achieve this evil agenda are not the first time. It has been consistently going on over the years with a view to bringing down the country.
It is to be noted that no responsible government would just look on while the country is being thrown into chaos that is threatening not only the stability of but the existence of the country itself. And the Bola Ahmed Tinubu government would not allow itself to be caught napping while the country burns.
But the ‘success’ of the organization always depends on the active support and cooperation of some very unpatriotic locals. Many of such elements live abroad and or are away from the scenes of what always turns out to be anything but peaceful. The prefix they always give for any protest they engineer abroad.
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In the not-too-distant past, the Arab Spring, the Sudan protest, the Kenya protest, and last week’s protest in Bangladesh, which led to a military overthrow of the civilian government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to seek political asylum elsewhere, started as ‘peaceful’ and ended up anything but peaceful.
The Nigerian active supporters of the strike are ranking politicians, such as Mr. Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, and Omoloye Sowore of the Sahara Reporters fame. All three were Presidential candidates of their respective political parties in the 2024 elections. Their calls for the raging protests were akin to what many might interpret to mean ‘let everybody loose, since I have not won.’
Mr. Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar shared time between their foreign houses and the ones in Nigeria, while Mr. Sowore lives in the United Kingdom (UK) with his immediate family. He monitored and encouraged the gullible protesters, many of whom were actually criminals, often from the safety of his foreign home.
That some parts of the country are ‘burning’ is not the concern of such organizations and individuals. Since theirs is not an agenda that is sympathetic to the cause of the many local countries around the world where they operate, they would continue with their evil calls for the release of the arrested outlaws from the detention of the Nigerian government.
The argument by some northerners that all the criminals in the riotous protest were fellow northerners is, in my view, not true. Yes, the worst of the protest may be happening in the north, but some of the participants are foreigners who have blended very well in the country as to be mistaken for bona fide citizens.
The army of the indolent ‘beggars,’ which has given the north a bad reputation of being a region of beggars, is not entirely made up of Nigerians. Many of them are from neighboring countries either to share the ‘benevolence’ of the Nigerian leaders or deliberately imported to be a perpetual menace to Nigeria, for the ill purpose of destroying it from within. The color of the skin of some of them and the accent of others give them away as non-Nigerians.
We are, however, not saying that there are no genuine concerns in the land for a protest, but such a protest SHOULD be peaceful, not the violent and criminal hue it has taken in many places, with the northern part of the country in the retrogressive vanguard. Preferably, the protesters should have opted for dialogue if their desire was to see wrongs righted by the administration. No, its organizers and sponsors envisaged and prayed for the destruction of the entire country through the destruction of a section of it.
For any organization, international or local, to call for the release of those who turned the strike into a crime fest, is not only being unfair and doing a disservice to the country but also deliberately wishing for its collapse, and it is what Amnesty International has been hankering for over the years. And that does not make it a friend of Nigeria.
May God never make them succeed in their evil machinations wherever they may opera
Labaran wrote from Abuja
