Operation Positive Identification Is Imposition Of State Of Emergency By Other Means- SBCHROs

A coalition of civil society groups in the South East has said that the insistence by the Nigerian military to carry out the country-wide operation positive identification, despite its widest rejection by Nigerians is nothing short of experimentation of a martial music and imposition of a military state of emergency by other means. The group insisted that constitutionally speaking, the Army have usurped the powers of Mr. President as “Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces” under democratic setting and brutally undermined Section 1 (2) of the 1999 Constitution. “That is to…

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