Labelling the Muslim
Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, outlawing anti-regime protests, cracking down on NGOs and the clampdown against anti-regime activists and journalists are indications that the security state is disintegrating.
«The herdsmen who go on rampage daily, maiming, raping, killing; those responsible for the Agatu massacre; Shiites massacre, Southern Kaduna pogrom, indiscriminate killings, brazen quit notices» givers, across Nigeria, etc, have never been arrested, prosecuted, let alone been proscribed and
stigmatised as terrorist organisations.
The appellants» solicitor Stephen Grosz, from Bindmans, says: «The effect of the judgment is that the PMOI has been mis - labelled by the British
government as a terrorist organisation for years.
Firstly in the designation of
MICG as a terrorist organisation, and secondly in the finding that the various acts of which Mr Lounani had been convicted may in fact disqualify him from refugee status.
«Already the new Commissioner of Police in Abia State has, upon resumption of office in Umuahia, cited the declaration of the military as a basis for treating
IPOB as a terrorist organisation and its members as terrorists.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday granted an order declaring the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
as a terrorist organisation.
granted an order declaring the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
as a terrorist organisation.
They now labelled them Fethtulah (FETO)
as a terrorists organisation».
It stated, «Characterising IPOB
as a terrorist organisation will likely incite hatred and antagonism against its members, and instigate security and law enforcement agencies to launch and inflict violence against them, while conditioning some members of the public to think that all members of IPOB are indeed defined by that characterisation.