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Amnesty faults Buhari over recall of dismissed General
International Human Rights watch group, Amnesty International (AI), has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of “monumental failure” over the reinstatement of sacked army general, Ahmadu Mohammed, who was sacked in 2014 by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged war crimes.
Mohammed, who was then the General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, was accused of possible war crimes after the alleged execution of suspected Boko Haram detainees in Giwa Barracks, Maiduguri, Borno State.
The rights group had fingered him alongside other serving and retired military chiefs for possible war crimes following the alleged torture and extra-judicial killings of more than 8,000 suspected Boko Haram detainees.
General Mohammed was accused of supervising the killing of 640 detainees at Giwa Barracks, Maiduguri, Borno State on March 14, 2014 following an attack at the Barracks’s detention centre by Boko Haram insurgents.
It would be recalled that General Mohammed was in the centre of a mutiny by soldiers who accused him of intentionally leading them into a Boko Haram ambush around Chibok on May 12, 2014.
The group, in a statement on Monday, said the reinstatement of Mohammed was a “monumental failure of the government to stamp out impunity for wars crimes at the highest level.”
“Major General Mohammed must be investigated for participating in, sanctioning or failing to prevent the deaths of hundreds of people,” said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
“Young men and boys, rounded up by the military, were either shot, starved, suffocated or tortured to death and no one has yet been held to account. It is unthinkable that Major General Muhammed ctould resume command of troops before an investigation has even begun,” the group said.
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