In a press release obtained by Sahara Reporters today, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Lagos, Nigeria has condemned the actions of Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and the Lagos State government following the deportation exercise of July 24th, 2013. The document also demands a public apology and additional compensation for the displaced Igbos.
In a press release obtained by Sahara Reporters today, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Lagos, Nigeria has condemned the actions of Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and the Lagos State government following the deportation exercise of July 24th, 2013. The document also demands a public apology and additional compensation for the displaced Igbos.
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The measure, the second in less than a year, moved over 70 Igbo destitutes from detention centers in Lagos, by truck, to the Upper Iweka bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State where they were abandoned in the middle of the night.
The report states: “without any reservation the CDHR see such an act as highly misguided and violate the express provision of certain sections of the Nigerian constitution. Ultimately, such action constitute an infringement on certain fundamental human rights of those involved pursuant to Section IV of the Nigeria constitution, the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, and the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.”
The document warns that the precedence set by the deportation decision bears the danger of precipitating a civil conflict in Nigeria. “Fashola’s action is merely a class war against the ordinary people within the society”, it furthers.
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