I am one of the people who was illegally detained by the JTF then SSS.
I'd like someone to ask Mr Henry Angulu what he means when he says that we
may have been disguising who we were or our purpose in the country. Your
readers can know that I was open and complete in all of my paperwork - our
four separate pieces of application all stated our intent to film for the
documentary Sweet Crude in the Niger Delta. I was warned by some not to be
open and honest because the Nigerian military might actually target us -
that is the worldwide media reputation of the country. How dare you act as
if this was a matter of paperwork. And how indecent. Would any reader
actually believe that the appropriate punishment for not filling out
paperwork (which is not even true) would be to be detained for a week with
no legal counsel in very unpleasant quarters subjected to many sessions of
interrogation.
This was a violation of many international charters and conventions. All
of this is a pack of spin and lies after the fact to cover for what the JTF
and SSS did. Nigeria cannot and will not be a fully democratic country
benefitting in all ways in the global economy and culture while the
military abuses authority. The Nigerian Government should be apologizing
not compounding the lies but adding more. It was inhumane and wrong.
I am one of the people who was illegally detained by the JTF then SSS.
I'd like someone to ask Mr Henry Angulu what he means when he says that we may have been disguising who we were or our purpose in the country. Your readers can know that I was open and complete in all of my paperwork - our four separate pieces of application all stated our intent to film for the documentary Sweet Crude in the Niger Delta. I was warned by some not to be open and honest because the Nigerian military might actually target us - that is the worldwide media reputation of the country. How dare you act as if this was a matter of paperwork. And how indecent. Would any reader actually believe that the appropriate punishment for not filling out paperwork (which is not even true) would be to be detained for a week with no legal counsel in very unpleasant quarters subjected to many sessions of interrogation.
This was a violation of many international charters and conventions. All of this is a pack of spin and lies after the fact to cover for what the JTF and SSS did. Nigeria cannot and will not be a fully democratic country benefitting in all ways in the global economy and culture while the military abuses authority. The Nigerian Government should be apologizing not compounding the lies but adding more. It was inhumane and wrong.