Last month the army dismissed as “spurious” Amnesty International’s claims that hundreds of people, including women and children, had died in military custody.
In November last year, the army said the global rights watchdog’s claim that soldiers had killed at least 150 pro-Biafra protesters since August 2015 was an attack on the military’s reputation.
Both Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly called for Nigeria to comply with a court ruling to release a pro-Iran Shiite cleric and hundreds of his supporters.
Ibrahim Zakzaky, who leads the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has been in custody for more than a year after at least 350 of his supporters were killed in clashes with the military.
The violence was allegedly sparked by IMN members’ refusal to allow Buratai’s convoy to pass along a road in the northern city of Zaria.
Separate investigations by the NHRC and Kaduna state government have, however, not led to any action against troops.
AFP
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