09/11/2025
Genocide by Unlawful Detention: The Hidden Horror of Wawa Barracks
The Nigerian government has, for years, used Wawa Barracks in Niger State as a secret detention and torture facility, one of the gravest crimes against humanity committed under the regime of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, and shamefully continued under Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Inside this notorious facility, hundreds are held incommunicado, many accused, without evidence, of being members or sympathizers of IPOB. Federal judges are routinely ferried to Wawa Barracks to conduct secret trials, closed to the public and devoid of transparency.
Detainees are denied access to lawyers and human rights observers, while their families, unaware of their fate, are left to believe they are either dead or disappeared.
This systematic and unlawful detention amounts to state-sanctioned genocide, a deliberate erasure of human lives through secrecy, silence, and suffering.
I demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees held at Wawa Barracks. Those accused of any offence must be charged and tried openly in a court of law, with full access to their families, legal representation, and human rights groups.
The world must no longer look away. Justice delayed is not just denied; it is also destroyed.
Copied: Omoyele Sowore
