Coalition urges Buhari to end Presidential Violence, dictatorship In Nigeria

The Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) have called on president Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of love of God following his quick recovery from a diagnosed illness end what they called "presidential violence and dictatorship" being witnessed in Nigeria under his administration.

The coalition which comprises the following groups namely the Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Center for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy (CHRPA), Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC)(HRC), Forum for Justice, Equity & Defense of Human Rights (FJEDHR), Society Advocacy Watch Project (SPAW), Anambra Human Rights Forum (AHRF), Southeast Good Governance Forum (SGGF), International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative (INTERSOLIDARITY) and Igbo Ekunie Initiative.

The right groups in statement issued in Onitsha and obtained by the Authority stated that they have joined other Nigerians and the international community in thanking God for sparing the precious life of Nigeria’s President, Gen Muhammadu Buhari and facilitating his quick recovery from a diagnosed ill-health or sickness and at the same calling on him to show regard for the right of the people and sanctity of human lives just as the Almighty God has continued to graceful to his life,

According to the statement which was signed by Emeka Umeagbalsi, Alloysious Attah and Jerry Chukwu Okolo, "President Muhammadu Buhari personally and vicariously has no regard for sanctity of human life and dignity of human person, but we are thankful to God for saving his precious life and providing him a divine opportunity to make amends, particularly to end his self inflicted and self invited presidential violence and dictatorship currently on rampage in Nigeria"
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The groups said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s one year old presidency has been marked by turbulence grounded in presidential violence and dictatorship of alarming proportion noting that going by an updated grounded  statistics, over 4500 innocent and unarmed citizens have been killed since June 2015 following the swearing in of President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s sixth civil President on 29th of May 2015; out of which over 1300  were killed by the security forces under conditions and manners unknown to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, relevant regional and international rights and humanitarian treaties.
"Over 3200 others were killed by violent non State actors whose violent activities are condoned, aided and abetted by the Buhari’s Presidency (i.e. Fulani Janjaweed). In all these, the Presidency of Gen Muhammadu Buhari is personally and vicariously culpable, following its refusal, till date, to fish out the perpetrators including its serving security chiefs and bring them to justice. Others who died untimely following harsh economic, governance and security policies of the Buhari administration in the past one year are in their thousands".