BREAKING!!! US Government Slams Buhari, DSS, Army, Police For Human Rights Abuses

The United States government has released a damning report which indicts President Muhammadu Buhari’s government for human rights abuses, injustice, and brutality at all levels. The report, released by the US Department of State, accuses security agencies like the Department of State Security Services (DSS,  also called SSS) which report directly to the president of gross abuse of power, human rights abuses, torture, arbitrary and unlawful detentions, and brutality. The 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices authored by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour was published on April 13, 2016.


The 18,662-word report highlights the Zaria Massacre which was perpetuated by the Nigerian Army under the command of General Yusuf Buratai and indicates that the Nigerian Army under President Buhari is guilty of genocide not just against the Shi’ites but minority ethnic groups in Plateau.

“The army troops killed an undetermined number–possibly hundreds according to some credible reports–of members of the Shia group Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Zaria, Kaduna State, following an altercation at a roadblock that disrupted the convoy of the chief of army staff,” the report noted.The Nigerian Army is also accused of using rape and torture as weapons of war in waging the war against Boko Haram. “In response to Boko Haram’s violent attacks and at times to crimes and insecurity in general security services perpetrated extra-judicial killings, and engaged in torture, rape, arbitrary detention, mistreatment of detainees, and destruction of property,” the report says.

The report also noted that Buhari has failed in delivering his promise of ‘change’, noting that widespread impunity continues at all levels of government, saying: “Although President Buhari’s administration began initial steps to curb corruption, authorities did not investigate or punish the majority of cases of police or military abuse.The report says Nigerian security agencies “used lethal and excessive force to apprehend criminals and suspects as well as to disperse protesters” and the government failed to hold the troops who committed these crimes accountable.


source; http://m.state.gov/md252715.htm