International Community's Responsibility To Protect Vulnerable Populations

 The International Community's Responsibility To Protect (R2P) is a global principle designed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that emphasizes the obligation of States (nations, including Nigeria) to safeguard their populations from harm, including genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. This concept emerged from the international community's nature to respond to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide and Srebrenica massacre. 

The Responsibility to Protect (abbreviated to R2P), is based on three-legged fundamental pillars. The three pillars are:

• Pillar One: 

Every State (country) has the responsibility to protect its citizens from the four mass atrocity crimes. What is the meaning of four mass atrocity crimes? They are:

1. Genocide: 

These are heinous acts committed deliberately with the intent to destroy and maim, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, tribal, or religious groups, including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and imposing measures to prevent births, or prevent preserving lives of babies. 

2. Crimes against humanity:

This includes a widespread or systemic attacks directed against a civilian population due to hatred, leading to murder, extermination, enslavement, and torture. 

3. War crimes: 

These are comprised of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, such as wilful or intentional killing, torture, and taking hostages, committed during armed conflicts.

4. Ethnic cleansing:

It is the forced removal of an ethnic group from a territory or country, often through violence, intimidation, or coercion, with the intent to change territory or country's ethnic composition.

• Pillar Two:

The international community has a responsibility to encourage and assist individual States (countries) in meeting this protection responsibilities. 

• Pillar Three:

If a State (country) is manifestly failing to protect its populations (like President Tinubu's Government in Nigeria which has compromised the citizens' security and safety and allowed terrorism, banditry, and Christian genocide to thrive), the international community must be prepared to take collective actions in a timely and decisive manner.

The R2P principle was unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005, and has since been reaffirmed in numerous UN resolutions. The principle emphasizes that sovereignty entails responsibilities, including protecting citizens from mass atrocities (which President Tinubu's regime has failed woefully to do. Rather, Tinubu's Government has resorted to negotiating with terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers, by paying several millions of US Dollars ransom to them, instead of using the Army to destroy them from the roots. Tinubu knows every Dick and Harry perpetrating terrorism in Nigeria. Yet, he is afraid of dealing with them.) The international community's role is to support States (countries) in fulfilling their responsibilities and to take collective actions, where necessary. 

The R2P remains a critical framework for preventing mass atrocities and promoting human rights. However, the R2P support for human rights protection does not work in Nigeria. Nigerians have no human rights. Kill them as you like. Rape the women mercilessly as you like. Burn thousands of Church worshippers with petrol as you like. Sentence innocent people (like Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) to life imprisonment as you like. Increase fuel and electricity bills as you like. The Government will not raise an eyebrow no matter the magnitude of mayhem that befalls the nation. Tinubu's Government adopts the approach of looking at the other side while Nigeria is in flames. As we speak, more than 10, 000 Nigerian girls are languishing in the pristine forests with their jihadists extremist captors. They are subjected to forced rounds of sex daily, for years. Some of them have been there for over 10 years. Some of them have born children in the forests. Terrorists in Nigeria are different from terrorists in other parts of the world. Terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers in Nigeria are very comfortable, robust, and vivacious! The difference is that, in other parts of the world, the Governments hate their activities and make daring attempts to crush them. They may operate, but with fear. But, the reverse is the case in Nigeria. They know that if they are caught, their godfathers in Government will come and bring them out. They will be pardoned, rehabilitated, and granted amnesty, after killing thousands of people and rendering others homeless. The truth I want you to understand here is that most Nigerian Governments support terrorism and Christian genocide! Why didn't terrorism thrive during General Babangida's military regime? It is because he surely would have killed all of them in one fell swoop. I'm telling you that not one of them would have been alive. 

Tinubu's Government is an epicentre of criminals and armed robbers. In fact, it has not been so bad for Nigeria like in this regime. They are voluptuous vultures feeding fat from the bodies of the slain! Where is the money generated from crude oil for over five decades in Nigeria? Where is the money past and present regimes borrowed from World Bank etc? Did they build roads and bridges? Did any of them build any single industry? They shared the money amongst themselves and levy the nation through other unfriendly economic policies to pay back their debts. What atrocity has Tinubu not done to Nigeria? Yet, his goons and errand boys are still praising him with harps and violins because they took parts of the booty.  

Why can't Tinubu get one wise adviser? A few days ago, Nigeria was agog with jubilation as Tinubu told the nation that some abducted persons (mostly girls) were released from their captivity. According to Tinubu, the 24 girls abducted by bandits in Kebbi State were released. Another 38 members of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) abducted by bandits in Kwara State were also released. We have not yet seen the 253 students abducted from St. Mary's Catholic Church in Niger  State. They are still held up in hostage. Tinubu did not tell the world how those captives were released. He told us that they were released. He didn't tell us the chemistry of the action. How were they released? What and what happened before they were released? Who were the dramatis personae in their release? The face-covered bandits said that some important men in Government came and spoke kindly to them to release the hostages. They obeyed them. Can things work that way? How can determined terrorists in a poor country like ours release so many hostages without money changing hands? It's impossible! Now, who were the important men in Government who went to negotiate with them? How did those important men know them and their hideouts? How much ransom did Government pay for each of them? Most times, terrorists charge 100 million naira and above for each hostage to be released in Nigeria. So, how much did Tinubu pay for 62 hostages released from the lion's den? What are the identities of the recipients or beneficiaries of the money? Do they not have personal bank accounts? Do they not have Nigerian Identification Numbers (NIN) which is compulsorily required when opening a bank account in Nigeria? Do they not have Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs) which every bank account in Nigeria must have? 

Listen Tinubu, all of us can't be foolish at the same time. You have again paid billions of naira ransom of tax payers money to terrorists and their funders. Nigerians have seen the 62 released captives, but we didn't see their captors dead or alive. Where are their captors? Have they gone into hiding as usual only to resurface when their funders give them commands to strike again? Were politicians the right persons to go to the forests to bring the kidnapped victims? Is that not the duty of soldiers? Why didn't the terrorists kidnap the politicians who will attract bigger ransoms to them? Something is truly fishing somewhere. How long would Tinubu be covering his coterie of evil friends? How long would the North be playing on our brains, using the South as stooge and ATM card to cash out big money? Tinubu, don't you see how porous and gullible you are? I heard that you are among the best brains in Yoruba land. But, it is not true. You don't behave like one. You don't behave as if you are ruling a sovereign State at all. Where lies Nigeria's sovereignty? Why should Tinubu be compromising and hiding terrorists funders in his cabinet? I candidly hate to belong to a country that condescends so low to negotiate with base elements to effect the freedom of abducted victims held up in captivity. Now, tell me what makes Nigeria a full-fledged country. Can such things happen in Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa, and Egypt? Can anybody reading this article tell me that Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, and Burkina Faso can go into terrorists' hiding places and pay them princely ransoms out of their tax payers money to free hostages and return home without shooting the devils? It can't happen there! But, it happens here every time. Why is Tinubu the president of Nigeria if he can't stand up to look into the eyeballs of North and command it to stop these atrocities activities against innocent people in Nigeria? How long will Nigeria be tied to the apron call of the Sokoto Caliphate? When shall this enslavement end? How long would North be colluding with ruling Nigerian Governments to steal our resources? Who will stop a business that pays him billions of naira except if he is a fool. Nobody! Therefore, as long as the Government continues to pay ransoms to terrorists for the release of kidnapped victims, kidnapping, terrorism, and banditry can never stop in Nigeria. How many times has Nigerian Government paid ransoms to terrorists to release abducted persons in the South East? How can Nigerian Government pay money to save lives in hostages in South East where Federal troops are killing defenceless civilians for many years? The payment of ransom to bandits means nothing but legitimizing and encouraging their evil trade. Doesn't Tinubu know that? I want the international community, United Nations Security Council, and President Trump, to please understand that President Tinubu is not serious about mitigating terrorism in Nigeria. The question of enlisting youths into the Nigerian Army and training Police doesn't add up after all. Let the international community, and President Trump in particular, understand that Tinubu is NOT going to eradicate terrorism in Nigeria. He is playing games as usual. If President Trump does not tackle this spate of terrorism in Nigeria, no human being can do it. President Tinubu, I put it to you that you are directly or indirectly funding and promoting terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, and Christian genocide in Nigeria. If you are not receiving any benefit from it, you would have stopped it for the longest time. 

If Government wants to eradicate terrorism, let the terrorists be killed immediately they are caught. Every approach or strategy that Tinubu adopts to fight banditry or terrorism that involves payment of one cent ransom to them is ineffective and self-deception. The failure of Government to arrest bandits and judge them according to the applicable law of Nigeria is another way of encouraging them to continue in their evil trades. If Government truly wants to eradicate insurgency, the insurgents should be arrested and quickly be shown the way out of this Earth. Anything short of this is mere masturbation. It is not productive. Just because the North helped Tinubu to win the 2023 presidential election, North is holding him at the jugular dictating to him what to do and what not to. Do politicians go to battle against the enemies? If you say, "Yes.", then I will demand to know the duty of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Police in a sovereign State. The number one duty of a president is to protect his citizens. But, if a president decides to cover murderers, kidnappers, and haters of other ethnic groups, let God kill such a devilish president in Jesus' name. Amen!

In conclusion, the International Community's Responsibility To Protect (R2P) is a vital principle that emphasizes the importance of protecting human lives and preventing mass atrocities. While its implementation is complex and often contentious, R2P remains a tool or framework for promoting human rights and preventing crises. Unfortunately, Nigerians are kicking against President Trump's intending involvement in eradicating terrorism, so that terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, and Christian genocide may persist forever to the favour of evil people. Infra dignitatem to Nigeria, the country of sinners!

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