– These are tough times for the Amnesty International (AI) office in Nigeria
– Some pressure groups are demanding for the expulsion of AI
– There have been protests against AI this past week
More groups have thrown their weight behind recent calls for the sack of Amnesty International from the country owing to its claimed disreputable role in the current fight against Boko Haram in the North-east.
There have been protests against Amnesty International this past week
This is even as leading human rights group, Save Africa and Restoration Agenda (SARA) has commended protesters who came out en-masse during the week to call for the sack of AI and also sustain the pressure until the foreign NGO leaves Nigeria.
The group in a press statement sent to ZENITHBLOG.com and signed by its executive secretary, Clifford Uba, took a swipe at “those who have taken parallel positions by supporting the infamous acts of propaganda against the state in favour of terrorists”.
The protesters have been asking Amnesty International to leave the country
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They said those who have continued to support further accommodation of AI amidst obvious insensitive comments and propaganda against the efforts of the Nigerian Army, have lost their conscience long time ago and thus support the dishonest organization as their only ticket to free meals.
The statement stated further that the organisation had lost its voice long ago when it decided to lower its moral standards for ethnic and sectional schems.
“We state clearly that, Amnesty International has lost its voice long time ago when it deliberately decided to bow down to the trappings of ethnic and sectional agenda in Nigeria being a foreign organization that should remain neutral in any sane society,” part of the statement said.
Some of the protesters used a coffin during the protest
The group accused AI of advising the United States against selling arms to Nigeria without proper investigation, even as it urged the organisation to tender apologies for its exposed lies that were sold in high places.
According to them the only thing remaining for AI to do now is to take up arms against the Nigerian state as it has everything within its powers to silence the federal government from protecting its own citizenry.
SARA recommended that the federal government not only expels AI but it should also be made to pay reasonable compensation to the people and the Nigerian government for tarnishing the image of the country for whatever motive they intend to satisfy outside the shore of our country.
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Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of sponsoring the anti-AI protests in Abuja.
The PDP made the accusation in series of tweets on Thursday, March 23 on its official Twitter handle.
Watch the video of one of the protests earlier this week below
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