OGONI AUTONOMY – A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE
By – KorneBari Nwike
The declaration of political autonomy by Nigeria’s indigenous Ogoni people is apparently borne out of their desire for freedom, liberty, and the protection of their rights as human beings. In fact, the United Nations see the need for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights when the UN General Assembly by its resolution 45/164 of 18 December 1990 proclaimed 1993 International year of the World’s indigenous people.
The United Nations pointed out that, “For indigenous peoples all over the world, the protection of their cultural and intellectual property has taken on growing importance and urgency. They cannot exercise their fundamental human rights as distinct…, societies, and peoples without the ability to control the knowledge they have inherited from their ancestors.” Definition of political autonomy by Wikipedia collaborate the above narrative: “ Political freedom (also known as Political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in western history and political thought and one of the most important (real or ideal) features of democratic societies , it has been described as a relationship free of oppression or coercion; absence of disabling conditions for an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions or the absence of lived conditions of compulsion, for example, economic compulsion in a society.” The question to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Mr. Joseph Dauda, the outgoing president of the Nigerian Bar Association, is where does the charge for treasonable felony and succession comes in here? read more
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