Amnesty report is vindictive’

CIVIL society group have declared that the Amnesty International report was a ploy to blackmail the

Nigerian military with a view to stampeding President Buhari Muhammadu to turn against his own military.

  This, they reasoned was to jeopardise the war against Boko Haram.

  The president of the group, Ekuk Bassey Williams, who spoke to Journalists in Abuja during a peaceful demonstration, described the report of the Amnesty International as vindictive and baseless.

  Williams said that the report entitled: “Stars On Their Shoulders, Blood On Their Hands” lacked basic facts and was at variance with its independent assessment and findings on the war against terror in the country.

  It would be recalled that Amnesty International released report indicting some service chiefs and retired service chiefs for war crime.

  “We unequivocally wish to state that the report had been found to be vindictive, lacking in basic facts and at variance with our independent assessment,” the leader of the group stated.

  On the title of the report, Williams said that Amnesty International had already found the officers guilty stressing that it was prejudicial and lacking in objectivity.

  According to the civil society group’s finding: “it was also discovered that the manner in which the insurgents operate via the forceful recruitment of teenagers and young girls put the military in the line of danger and unavoidable risk.”