Olowu of Owu Kuta, Oba Hammed Adekunle Makama Oyelude called a World Press Conference on Thursday, December 13, 2018 to address imbalance reports about the fight against Boko Haram in the North-East of Nigeria.
The title of the statement titled;
“Support Nigeria Army – Our Army” addressed the dilemma Nigeria’s military suffered in the hands of Western Press and NGO such as the Amnesty International false information against Nigeria’s military.”
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Oba Makama said further;
“We should all rise above primordial sentiments to condemn propaganda against Nigeria.
The state of emergency could be declared so that the military would be covered in the emergency.
Anytime the Military is having an upper hand against insurgency the Amnesty International will come out to demoralize them with the allegation of extra-judicial killings.  The military should be the pride of the country.”
The Oba Makama advised the media to be patriotic always and refrain from spreading negative news about the country.
The International Community and the Politics of Double-Standards
The politics of continuous shifting of the goal post as to what actually constitutes human rights abuse or extra-judicial killings by the International Community, most especially the Western world poses a severe danger to the national imageries as well as the developing world’ capacity to root out and contain acts capable of undermining their sovereign existence.
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The continued bashing and labeling of the Nigerian Government and Military as condolers of human rights abuses continues to make a mockery of our intelligence as a nation.
Placing the responsibility to determine what is and what is not human right abuses in the hands of a few states had sold out the collective conscience of the International Community.
“…The psychological effects of continued labeling of the Nigerian Military a human rights violators will only provide more momentum and inspirations to the Boko Haram insurgents while dampening the morale of our committed soldiers.
Thus, only one entity is billed to emerge the victor, viz, the Boko Haram if this campaign continues unabated, and consequently result into the defeat of not only the Nigerian military but the entire Nigerian state, the people, and even the international community given the spill-over effect of terrorism.
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This paper, therefore, contends that the real abused in the on-going counterinsurgency are the Nigerian military personnel, the people and the government. This is arising from the fact that most times, the labeling of the government as being inefficient, the military as being violators, are usually biased and turned out to nothing but half-truths…”
www.sojworld.com (c) December 14, 2018
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