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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Rights Group wants FG to curb Rivers' crisis By John Ighodaro Friday, August 27, 2004 PORT HARCOURT — THE Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL) has expressed doubts over the state government’s ability to curb the violence in Rivers State, arguing that there is the need for the President and the National Assembly to step in and “preserve constitutional order in the state, before the present anarchy turns into full blown rebellion, by those who still shamelessly think that they have been used, dumped and disgraced by the state.” A statement issued by IHRHL in Port Harcourt and signed by its Executive Director, Mr. Anyakwee Nsirimovu noted that “the unabating state of insecurity in Rivers State signals to the fact that the state government has continued to fail guaranteeing the safety of lives and property, which is a fundamental constitutional condition of its existence.” The group argued that the state government's ineffectiveness in drastically curbing the crime rate in the state stems from the fact that “the instruments and agents of violence which the state tolerated and used for political purposes, is not only hunting it, but blackmailing it to the point of inactivity. The statement went further to say that “people continue to be slaughtered in this state almost on daily basis by untouchable warlords, who are beyond police and now, military control.  Shortly after the wanton killing of over 50 persons in Ataba community in Andoni local government area, another 15 persons have been slaughtered, hundreds wounded, over 50 houses that inhabit hundreds of  persons razed to ashes in Port Harcourt city itself, by persons that may never be caught by a combination of military and police operation as we currently have them. “Residents of Port Harcourt witnessed the heavy shooting and explosion that reminded them of the Biafran days on Sunday night. Today, the number of displaced persons in the state has markedly increased,” the statement added.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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