IPOB:UN Warns Buhari Regime,other Governments To Stop Abducting Journalists,

IPOB: UN warns Buhari regime, other governments to stop
abducting journalists, critics
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told President
Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and other governments to stop
enforced disappearances.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told President
Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and other governments to stop
enforced disappearances.
A telling report by the International Society for Civil Liberties
& Rule of Law (Intersociety) revealed that in Nigeria, “not less
than 600 (Igbo youths) were disappeared or feared killed in
the captivity” of the Nigerian military. It also stated that “over
90 per cent of the victims of the atrocities are innocent.”
The UN chief urged countries to fulfil their obligations toward
preventing and prosecuting cases of enforced disappearance,
a “cowardly practice” which the coronavirus pandemic has
made even more difficult to combat.
Mr Guterres made the appeal in his message on Monday to
mark the International Day honouring victims of this serious
human rights violation, observed on August 30.
“Together, we can, and we must end all enforced
disappearances,” he said.
Enforced disappearance refers to the arrest, detention, or
abduction of persons by state agents or those acting with
state authorisation or support whose whereabouts are
unknown.
Abubakar Dadiyata, a critic of the government in Nigeria,
abducted since 2019 in Kaduna has not been seen to date.
According to the UN, once largely the product of military
dictatorships, enforced disappearance has become a global
problem, with hundreds of thousands of people disappearing
in more than 80 countries.