InterSociety

What We Have Achieved

Intersociety is known and reputed for its facts laden reports derived from its criminological and lawyerly researches and investigations. Such reports, when ready, are channeled to the appropriate quarters using print, audio-visual, electronic, social and online media and other means of communication. Our research and investigative reports have been cited or used locally and internationally by targeted audiences including general public, research and academic institutions, international governments and their diplomats, intergovernmental bodies, policy makers, justice bodies, advocacy organizations, etc. Another major achievement recorded by Intersociety is earning a respectable voice, integrity and credibility internationally and as a result, we have been admitted into a number of important and strategic international coalitions and partnerships including but not limited to International Alliance against Genocide as a member, partnership with the Christian Solidarity International and a forum pioneered by some distinguished UK Parliamentarians, etc.

Our reports on killing of Christians in Nigeria have gained international currency and become a reference point. Today, we are the surest source of data for numerous international Governments, advocacy groups and research institutions especially on issues regarding egregious massacre of Christians and unspeakable property wars levied against them by state actor and non state actor jihadists in Nigeria. We have established powerful networks in Igbo Land and beyond for purpose of aggregating and congregating reliable data concerning the state of insecurity and other unsafe conditions affecting the Igbo People and their neighbors. Between Dec 2015 and Dec 2020, we successfully carried out over fifteen major research and investigative works on insecurity and gross abuses of human rights in Igbo Land by Nigerian security forces particularly the Nigerian Army. These include reports on military massacre operations in old Eastern Nigeria (August 2015-Sept 2017), Emene Army massacre of August 2020, Obigbo Army massacre and abductions of Oct-Nov 2020. In the Obigbo massacre and abductions, apart from documenting the massacre, we also played a key in the release of 283 Obigbo residents, secretly abducted by Nigerian soldiers and held for over four months amidst grave inhuman treatments or conditions including torturing and raping many of the 57 women among them.

We have been monitoring and exposing police and army roadblock extortion racketeering on Southeast and South-south roads since 2012. Effectively exposed too, is the Government of Nigeria’s persecution targeted at Muslim minority of Shiite faith and Christian dominated Igbo population-persecuted on the grounds of their ethnicity and religion. These, the Government of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari has perpetrated and sustained through ‘structural, cultural, physical and hate violence’, all resulting since August 2015 in the death of not less than 700 unarmed and defenseless Igbo citizens and injuring of over 800 as well as loss of over 1300 Shiite Muslim lives and injuring of over 800 others. The victims were shot dead or shot and injured by the country’s security forces particularly the Nigerian Army between August 2015 and Nov 2020.

As a research and investigative rights, democracy, rule of law and security and safety advocacy group, it is settled in criminology and law that crimes including heinous rights abuses and violations (i.e. crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and other international prohibited acts) do not amount to crimes or grievous rights violations until they are factually investigated and documented for purposes of ensuring that justice is done to the victims and the perpetrators held accountable.