By Emma Amaize

WARRI—A Niger Delta  activist and criminologist, Omolubi Newuwumi, yesterday, lambasted Amnesty International for accusing the Nigerian Army of genocide in the fight against Boko Haram, saying that the organisation has lost its credibility.

Omolubi, in Warri, Delta State, said: “Amnesty International should define what it means by genocide. Is genocide committed when a nation’s army defends its citizens from both internal and external aggression?

“Where was Amnesty International when Boko Haram was killing innocent persons, bombing schools, mosques, churches and markets filled with Nigerian citizens?  I want the organisation to take a look at the town of the Chief of Army Staff, where the Boko Haram sect killed hundreds of defenseless Nigerians, maimed innocent women and children and destroyed property worth millions of naira and tell us again what they mean by genocide.

“Or they want the Nigeria Army to stand hands akimbo and watch the sect wipe Nigeria out completely from the earth?”