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The Committee for Defense of Human Right (CDHR) has said that Federal Government’s insensitivity to the issues of marginalization and human rights abuses was responsible for increased yearning for secession in the country.
Dr.Osagie Obayuwana,the National President of CDHR, said that it was a fact that marginalization and human rights abuses have widened the call beyond Biafra to Oduduwa Republic, the Middle Belt and the Lower Niger Congress.
According to him: “The high-handedness with which these issues have been suppressed makes it not surprising that the rebellion would extend to attacks which Nigeria has witnessed in recent times, on the symbols of the state considered oppressive, like the police, the soldiers, the correctional Facilities and customs.
He said that Buhari engaged in pretence to secure office, which is now used to actualize a narrow Fulani agenda, which according to him is a crisis prone misadventure, doomed to failure, but which unfortunately may consume Nigeria, if not abandoned.”
He spoke on the request by the President that the headquarters of AFRICOM be moved from Germany to Africa, Obayuwana,saying the development was a mere desperation.
He added : “This is an act of desperation that is not properly thought out. It portends the handing over of Nigeria’s sovereignty to the United States of America at this stage of our national history. It is bemusing how the government on whose laps the challenge of consolidating the unity and integration of Nigeria and Africa lies, which has in our view woefully failed in this historical assignment, can imagine that it is American soldiers that can come to the rescue.”
“Buhari’s call gives an insight into how poorly he defined the problem, and to imagine that the sense of injustice felt by the South-East, South-West, South-South and Middle Belt, as well as the poor in the North, can be wiped out by American military might, is troubling.”
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