Thousands of protesters under the banner, Global Peace and Rescue Initiative (GOPRI) have asked the Amnesty International to vacate the country within the next 24 hours
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GOPRI said if AI refuses to shut down its operation in Nigeria, it
will begin a Five-Day Occupy Amnesty International Protest as a first
warning
- Amnesty International had alleged human rights abuses by Nigerian security agencies against arrested Boko Haram suspectsThousands of protesters under the banner, Global Peace and Rescue
Initiative (GOPRI) have, Monday March 20, barricaded the Abuja office of
the Amnesty International (AI) demanding the international organization
to vacate the country within the next 24 hours. Vanguard reports that the Executive Director of the group, Comrade
Melvin Ejeh, while addressing the protesters, said if in the next 24
hours Amnesty International does not shut down its operations in Nigeria
and leave the country, the group as well as other Nigerians shall begin
a Five-Day Occupy Amnesty International Protest as a first warning. 
He said: “Let us warn at this point
that there will be no interval of respite if AI fails to leave Nigeria
at the end of the five days as we will activate other more profound
options to make the organization leave Nigeria. We therefore use this
opportunity to call on Nigerians to join the movement to get this evil
out of our land before it plunges us into real war.”
Protesters occupy AI office, say it should vacate Nigeria within 24hrs.
According to Ejeh, well respected
organizations including the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and
the Global Amnesty Watch have condemned the recent report by amnesty
international which alleged human rights abuses by Nigerian security
agencies against arrested Boko Haram suspects.
He
said the deliberate attempt by Amnesty International to indict the
security agencies working day and night to restore peace in troubled
parts of the country without condemning the heinous crimes committed by
Boko Haram terrorists proves that the international organization has
ulterior motives.
He said: “Previous calls by
concerned groups for the government to kick Amnesty International out of
Nigeria for the safety of citizens have gone unheeded.
Unfortunately, if this organization is allowed to continue carrying out its atrocities here, it will destabilize Nigeria.” Unlike our leaders, most of us do not
have the resources to relocate our loved ones to other lands if Amnesty
International succeeds in ruining this nation down. Like the victims of
AI’s operation in the Middle-East, we would be left without a country
and we would not be welcomed in other nations.
We
will become mere footnotes in its next annual report since it stops
showing interest in places it has successfully destroyed.”
Speaking
further, he said recent revelation by Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper,
has indicated that Israel used Amnesty International as a front for its
foreign ministry.
Protesters occupy AI office, said it should vacate Nigeria within 24hrs, quoting the report
“The
documents reveal how some heads of Amnesty International Israel were
allegedly in regular contact with the Foreign Ministry from the late
1960s to the mid -1970s, reporting on their activities in real time,
consulting with officials and taking instructions from them.”
“The
Amnesty office in Israel received regular funds transferred through the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs which reportedly included hundreds of
Israeli pounds for flights abroad, per diem allowances, and registration
fees and dues payments to the organization’s headquarters.”
He said though the Nigerian authorities
might not be unaware of the evil machinations of this organization, but
it may have opted to treat it with diplomatic considerations.
He however said that: “This
in our consideration is not the right approach to dealing with this
demonic entity. Its evil contaminates any country it chooses to work
against. Its destructive touch leaves countries in failed state.
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