BEVERLY HILLS, March 20, (THEWILL) – Hundreds of protesters under the aegies of Global Peace and Rescue Initiative, GOPRI, on Monday barricaded the Abuja office of the Amnesty International, AI, as they handed a 24-hour ultimatum to the international organization to vacate Nigeria.
Executive Director of the group, Comrade Melvin Ejeh, while addressing the protesters, accused AI of deliberately attempting to indict Nigerian security agencies labouring to restore peace in troubled parts of the country without condemning the heinous activities of Boko Haram terrorists.
Stressing that this proves that the international organization has ulterior motives, he threatened that if AI does not shut its operations in Nigeria in the next 24 hours, GOPRI as well as other Nigerians shall begin a five-day Occupy Amnesty International Protest as a first warning.
Ejeh said, “Let us warn at this point that there will be no interval of respite if AI fails to leave Nigeria at the end of the five days as we will activate other more profound options to make the organization leave Nigeria. We therefore use this opportunity to call on Nigerians to join the movement to get this evil out of our land before it plunges us into real war.”
He noted that well-respected organizations including the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, and the Global Amnesty Watch have condemned the recent report by amnesty international which alleged human rights abuses by Nigerian security agencies against arrested Boko Haram suspects.
According to him, “Previous calls by concerned groups for the government to kick Amnesty International out of Nigeria for the safety of citizens have gone unheeded. Unfortunately, if this organization is allowed to continue carrying out its atrocities here, it will destabilize Nigeria.
“Unlike our leaders, most of us do not have the resources to relocate our loved ones to other lands if Amnesty International succeeds in ruining this nation down. Like the victims of AI’s operation in the Middle-East, we would be left without a country and we would not be welcomed in other nations. We will become mere footnotes in its next annual report since it stops showing interest in places it has successfully destroyed.”
He further stated that recent revelation by Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, has indicated that Israel used Amnesty International as a front for its foreign ministry.
Quoting the report, he said, “The documents reveal how some heads of Amnesty International Israel were allegedly in regular contact with the Foreign Ministry from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, reporting on their activities in real time, consulting with officials and taking instructions from them.
“The Amnesty office in Israel received regular funds transferred through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which reportedly included hundreds of Israeli pounds for flights abroad, per diem allowances, registration fees and dues payments to the organization’s headquarters.”
Noting the Nigerian authorities might not be unaware of the evil machinations of the organization, the Executive Director pointed out that it may have opted to treat it with diplomatic considerations.
He however said, “This in our consideration is not the right approach to dealing with this demonic entity. Its evil contaminates any country it chooses to work against. Its destructive touch leaves countries in failed state”.
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