An investigative report by civil society organisation,Centre for African Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights,(CASLER) has revealed that Human Rights group, Amnesty International and some foreign Non Governmental Organizations are behind the prolonged Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria
The report stated that Amnesty International had been acting as the intellectual arm of the Boko Haram group to launch offensive publication that are injurious to the campaign against the terrorists.
“The activities of Amnesty International in Nigeria are quite despicable and injurious to the overall campaign of the Nigerian Army in the prosecution of the Boko Haram war in North East Nigeria.A cursory look at their activities reveals lots of underhand dealings that seek to promote the activities of the Boko Haram group.”
” Our Investigation revealed that Amnesty International was hired by some vested interest to publish damaging reports on the operations of the Nigerian Army emphasizing on human rights violations and extrajudicial killings of innocent people and other despicable acts” the report said
In addition, the report highlighted other activities of Amnesty International which include facilitating payment of ransom and running propaganda machinery for the Boko Haram.
” The activities of Amnesty International also transcends into facilitating the payment of ransoms to the Boko Haram terrorists group through its wide network.It was also established that the bulk of the monies received by Boko Haram were wired through mediums covertly controlled by representatives of Amnesty International in Nigeria and some francophone countries.”
” The network is such that a certain percentage is wired back to Amnesty International in the form of grants for its operations in Nigeria and other African countries. There was a particular instance where a large tranche of money was wired to the Nigerian account of Amnesty International under the nomenclature” Intervention Funds in North- East Nigeria, the source of the money was from a province in France by an International NGO involved in the humanitarian crisis in Mali.” the report said.
It added that the Rights group also encourage the terrorists by providing logistics support such as medical supplies and arms and ammunitions.
