STATE OF NATION: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, CSOs urge Buhari
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Hundreds of
Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating security concerns in the country.
They further alarmed that the first quarter of 2021 witnessed an all-time high fatalities mass atrocity incidences across the country.
The petitio signed by the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat and made available to
Vanguard revealed that “Following its sharp increase of 43 per cent in mass atrocities 2020, Nigeria has continued to experience a decline in security across the nation. In the first quarter of 2021 (January to March), we recorded an all-time quarterly high of almost 2000 fatalities from mass atrocities incidents across the country. This week, across the 6 geopolitical zones, there were escalated combustions of violence resulting in even more deaths.
Dominic Ongwen during one of the court sessions –Photo (ICC)
“I ran to the world to help, rehabilitate and heal me but when I landed into its hands, it threw a rope on my neck,” that was the sentimental statement uttered by Dominic Ongwen, a former senior Lord’s Resistance Army Rebel Commander and now a convict, at the International Criminal Court on April 15th. And his sentence hearing is due on May 6th.
Ongwen, 46, who was found guilty in February this year for a total of 61 counts comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Lukodi, Pajule, Odek and Abok in northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005.
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By Chioma Onuegbu
A Civil Social Organization, COMMPART Foundation for Justice and Peace Building has written to Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Mr Andrew Amiengheme, demanding the unconditional release from detention one Mrs. Naomi Ebong, a widow and her son, Kufre Ebong accused of killing one Mr. Aniekan Udoh.
The Executive Director of the Organisation, Mr Saviour Akpan in the letter dated, February 26, and sent to the CP on March 1, 2021, stated that the duo detained in police custody since February 10, 2021, should have been either released on bail to a reliable surety pending conclusion of investigation or charged to court.
In Tennessee, 16-year-old children cannot legally purchase alcohol. They cannot vote. They cannot purchase a firearm.
There are a few things they can do, however. 16 year olds can drive. They can also be sentenced to life in prison
This is exactly what happened to activist and author Cyntoia Brown, who spoke at this yearâs Rethinking Reentry Symposium on Tuesday afternoon. The symposium, organized by the UTK College of Law and the Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender and Social Justice, featured discussion on reentry to society after incarceration and voting rights. The event was organized by Taylor Flake-Lawson, who interviewed Brown during the lecture, and led by symposium editor Johnelle Simpson. In conjunction with the symposium, the UT Legal Clinic, along with UT law students, will be holding a clinic on March 20 to help individuals restore their voting rights.