Page 2 - Cantonment Commandant News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, otherwise known as Intersociety, a civil society organisation, has reacted to a statement by the Nigerian Army denying claims that its personnel were collaborating with armed herdsmen and bandits to terrorise the South Eastern part of the country as well as Benue state.   The Army in a statement on Saturday signed by its spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu described such claims as spurious and derogatory, aimed at smearing the image of the service.  

......Says Security Forces Killed 1,360 Persons In Eastern Nig (AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of law (InterSociety), has alleged that Soldiers of the Nigerian Military and other security agents deployed in Eastern Nigeria raided 150 Communities in the Past 20 Months (Oct 2020-June 2022), burnt or destroyed

A recent shoot-on-sight order against persons considered enemies of state in the Southeast by President Muhammadu Buhari, is worrisome. Amby Uneze writes The recent shoot-on-sight order by President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be the solution to the insecurity in the Southeast today. Besides, importing soldiers and police personnel from the Northern part of the country to the Southeast with the charge to shoot-on-sight is more of a military culture. The essence of democratic rule is the total involvement of the people in the governance of their affairs and not government by force or kill-on-sight...

…The move could trigger another programme” Adebanjo warns Ola Ajayi, Ibadan AFENIFERE, an apex Yoruba association has described the shoot-on-sight order given to soldiers in the South East by President Muhammadu Buhari as a move that would further threaten the unity and ruptured peace in the country. The order which was given to the soldiers who are predominantly Northerners without first exploring the option of dialogue, the association maintained, had further fuelled the suspicion that President Buhari did not consider the life of another ethnic group sacred but that of Fulani, his kins...

Ethnic cleansing looms in S-East, Igbo elders raise alarm On …Ohanaeze, ASETU, Nnamani, Abia elders speak …Posting core northern officers to eastern military formations a prelude to genocide …Ask FG to rescind shoot-on-sight order …Provide proof of shoot-on-sight order —Army …Yoruba ‘ll defend Ndigbo against any attack, Sunday Igboho vows …Asks police personnel to be hard, ruthless on armed groups By Anayo Okoli, Regional Editor South East, Kingsley Omonobi, Dennis Agbo, Ikechukwu Odu & Steve Oko WITH one voice, a collection of Igbo elders and leading organisations, yesterday...