The UN just released a report from a twelve-day Nigeria "investigation" by its Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Finding: no evidence of religious persecution.
One detail sets the table: the Rapporteur was there at the invitation of the Nigerian government.
The Rapporteur's reasoning: she did not see a direct government order to kill Christians. No instruction from Abuja, up and down the chain of command, ordering one religious group destroyed. Therefore — not genocide. Not persecution. Move along.
The problem is, that is NOT the legal standard. That is a red herring. Disgusting.
In 1994, Hutu militias — not the Rwandan military, not a government chain of command — killed 800,000 Tutsi in 100 days. The International Criminal Tribunal ruled it genocide. The killers didn't have government memos in their pockets. They had machetes and a mission. Intent to destroy a group is the standard. Not a signed order.
The Rapporteur, Prof. Nazila Ghanea, holds a chair in international human rights law at Oxford University. She knows the legal standard for religious persecution and genocide. She chose intentionally to kick up dust with a false argument to justify her obviously pre-determined conclusion. That's not an investigation, it's a whitewash. This should be a crime.
Here's what her twelve-day investigation looked like. She went to Abuja, Jos, and Kano — cities. Not to Barkin Ladi, not Benue, not Taraba or Southern Kaduna, not Gwoza, where the massacres continue. Her own statement confirmed her activities were "limited to Kano and Plateau states." She met with government officials and "religious leaders." In Nigeria that means she sat with the apparatus running the cover-up and took notes.
In her own words, she acknowledged that "at the village and hamlet levels in particular concentrations of the country, scores of innocent people experience killings, mass violence and the total decimation of their livelihoods, time and again, witnessing little or no justice." She acknowledged the scale of killings "could qualify as genocide." Her own senior legal experts told her directly they "cannot say that genocide is not happening anywhere in Nigeria."
Then she issued a report saying there is no evidence of religious persecution.
Prior to her trip, the European Centre for Law and Justice, Genocide Watch, and 21Wilberforce each submitted documented evidence of anti-Christian massacres for her consideration. She came home and said there's nothing to see.
Lying to hide the genocide is nothing new for the UN. I build schools in displacement camps in Abuja. The UNHCR wrote a detailed report about those camps in 2015. When I contacted them in 2020, they officially denied the camps exist. But they do, and the victims are still there.
More than 185,000 Christians and non-jihadist Muslims have been killed since 2009. More than 20,000 churches burned. Twelve million driven from their homes.
And the UN just handed Nigeria a clean bill of health.
The only certain conclusion from the report is that the UN Rapporteur is either corrupt, complicit, or a complete ignoramus. And her Oxford position likely rules out ignoramus.
The United Nations is not a neutral observer in Nigeria's genocide. It is a participant in covering it up.
#EarthShaker
Here’s Omoyole Sowore, down & fighting for his life from the effects of TEARGAS fired directly at him by security agents. I know how life-threatening it is, because they did the same thing to me at the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest late last year. Nigerians should roundly condemn this.
So, Tinubu is prosecuting a citizen for sharing a fake AI-generated audio of him.
Shouldn't Tinubu himself be prosecuted for sharing an AI generated image of himself to deceive the Nigerian people?
Remember, his office posted a Grok-generated image of Tinubu with the Rwandan president. Did they really meet? Where? What were they doing? Who knows?
Hypocritical tyrant.
#EarthShaker
Oga, I no go yab you too much, bcos I know one of ur pikin, but I no fit see or hear nonsense make i no open mouth.
Some pple say na you keep Nigeria together after the Civil War, some say na you introduce the heavy painful things wey dey happen today.
Maybe the civil war no for happen if you bin understand Ojukwu English and all una agree for Aburi.
Millions of pple die bcos of dat war, it was a genocide. Ur government blockade, killed so many children, millions died of starvation.
After the war you talk, "No victor no Vanquished"
But all the Igbo properties for PortHarcout you turn am to abandon property.
U gave fellow disenfranchised Nigerians only £20 to start life with regardless of any billions dey had in the bank.
Na you open mouth talk say "Nigeria is so rich we don't know what to do with money.
When dem been dey ask you question on the killings done by ur Army, na you take your gworo mouth talk say na trees ur trained military dey shoot.
So wetin fit dey inside dat ur book wey no be lies and ur distorted truth.
Abegi go sidon for doti
I have always known you as a bloody mumu person, your mumu na follow come.
Nonsense
After Ojukwu yab you, after you don be president of Nigeria na him u run go school?
Why you come dey form Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka?
What Nigeria and Harold Wilson did to our ancestors in Biafra was mind-blowing.
And you keep asking: Is this the Nigeria they say we should belong to?
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Support #Biafra, #DOS, #IPOB
Dear @TonUP_io@OfficialAPCNg please, pay the terrorists you guys brought into Nigeria during 2014-15 election whatever you owe them so they can stop killing Nigerians and dashing the hope of so many families. As was confessed by Alhaji Kawu Baraje, you guys brought Fulani terrorists from sahel in 2014, to destabilize Nigeria and make it ungovernable for the then president, GEJ. Now that you're in power, please pay them whatever you owe them.
Nigerians can't be dying like fowls.
A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) confirms Fulani militants caused more deaths than Boko Haram or ISIS over the past year by mostly targeting Christian farming communities in Nigeria.
Commenting on the report, Open Doors CEO Henrietta Blyth said:
"My heart has been broken as I have heard stories from women and men who have seen their beloved family members butchered in front of them or carried off into a life of slavery."
I have made it a duty to share this every year, until the need to share it no longer exists.
My ancestors' death will never be in vain.
Rest in Peace Heroes! 🙏 💪🏽
#BIAFRARmemorial#BiafraRememberance
As an Igbo (or #Biafran), raise your voice here if you’re against BBC’s planned documentary on the Civil War, titled “Surviving Biafra”. State your reasons or even make suggestions. It will surely get to @BBC. Consider this a poll & make the best of it.
A pregnant woman was abducted in Nigeria by Islamic Fulani band!ts. She gave birth to twins in the bush while in captivity.
On the order of the band!ts’ leader, the newborn babies were thrown to his dogs while the helpless mother watched in horror as her children were eaten one after the other.
Please, vote Tinubu for second tenure.
N/B: Imagine for emphasis