Introduction
A media release of Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on 3rd March, 2021 gave marching orders to security agents to shoot-on-sight any civilian found in the forest with an AK-47 weapon. Since then the media has been abuzz with mainly non-legal analyses of the subject, until the President directly corroborated the order on 11th March, 2021 during his meeting with the nation’s traditional rulers on the subject of insecurity in Nigeria. Some analysts are of the view that the order is a product of doctrine of necessity.
In the humble view of this writer, the order is a licence to security to kill suspected armed persons, without the due process of law. The order is undeniably a landmark of military regimes, where the leader operates in the parody of L’etat c’est moi (meaning: “I am the State”) of Louis XIV of France (1638-1715). The order is a ‘legal’ approval for the security agents to transform themselves to an accuser,
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SUMMARY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION’S INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE KILLING OF MR. NSAMA NSAMA CHIPYOKA AND MR. JOSEPH KAUNDA DELIVERED TO THE MEDIA BY THE HYMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON, MR. MUDFORD. Z. MWANDENGA AT THE COMMISSION’S HEAD OFFICE IN LUSAKA ON 4
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