“Consent and Recruitment” Bayo Williams
Nigerian have been adjudged as one of the most happiest people in the world, this ascension was made by the transparency international sometime ago.
This ascension of transparency international nowadays is no longer tenable judging by the facts that the attitude of some people, organizations even in the security formations including the military, non consensual agreements that is always lead to
institutional failure in the country, which causes human rights abused, in most cases led to extra – judicial killings.
Statistics survey showed that people in this part of the world are no longer harmoniously lived as it where, people now lived in fear, few months ago, there were reported cases of human rights abusive and threats to life all over the country.
A case reference is that of the Ekhor – Niduolu community in Uhunmwonde local government area of Edo state.
Its was gathered from a reliable source that some military personnels stormed the village at about 2100hrs and forcefully took some young men away, even when the “Odiowale” of the community is not aware, an elder of the community who spoke to our crime desks, who doesn’t wants his name on print, stated that is difficult for people to leave together these days because there is no longer right to lives, there are human rights violations all over the places, that is the new trend we found ourselves in the society, few months ago at about 2100hrs, some group of military personnel’s invaded the community and forcefully took some young men away for reasons best know to them, we were later informed by the military authority that they are taking them for training to be enlisted into the military to join the force already on ground to fight the deadly Boko-haram militants, these persons were taken against their consent which is human rights violation, we appealed to the military authority to please release them, two months ago we learnt that some of them narrowly escaped death in the hands of the deadly boko-haram terrorist at sambasa forest, our young men that were forcefully taken away from our community are Efosa Imade, Wesley Imuetinyan Igbinovia, Osaretin Ohio and Monday Ero, up till now nothing have been heard from them or from the military authority.
Further investigation revealed that the incident happened, simultaneously across the country, our northern correspondence who visited the military training school on point assessment spoke to a military personnel who pleaded anonymous stated that the action took by military is for the well being of the country, we knew that some segment of the society will view it as unconstitutional, but as I said earlier, it’s is for the good of the country, as we speak some of the would-be officer’s escaped during training session, but the good news is many have been arrested and court martial they would be sentences soon, others who are still at large, we are on their train, we will soon get them, if arrested they will still be court martial and sentence too that is the rules of engagement he concluded.
Meanwhile most of the families affected across the country are still living in pains and anguish because either did they hear from their loved ones or the military authority.
As at the time of filling in this report, the whereabout of lgbinovia Wesley Imuetinyan and others is unknown.
