Nigeria: Amnesty's High As the New Low

opinion

Amnesty International is riding the wave of a newfound high after delivering on its clients' demand, which appears to be a mission to grade Nigeria in the same column with repressive nation states. The ebullience with which the organisation's field assets were pumping each others hands and patting shoulders after a Nigerian event to unveiled its annual State of the World's Human Rights report for 2016.

For anyone that has followed events, the Amnesty International's 2016 report offered nothing new. It is a rehash of other emergency reports that it had issued in the course of that year, often put together hurriedly, such that thoroughness is not an attribute to expect from those documents. The military, the institution targeted by those reports, has repeatedly picked holes in the reports, citing reasons that the non-governmental organization has not been able to successfully refute.

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