{"id":169450,"date":"2025-07-14T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-he-violated-human-rights-sowore"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:59:25","slug":"buhari-he-violated-human-rights-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-he-violated-human-rights-sowore","title":{"rendered":"Buhari: He violated human rights \u2013 Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Activist politician, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the late Muhammadu Buhari violated human rights when he was military Head of State and democratically elected President.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the death of the ex-Nigerian President on Sunday in London at the age of 82 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore said Buhari deprived thousands of Nigerians of the most sacred right of all \u2013 the right to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very sad that we are even having a conversation about mourning a person who left this country broken. Did everything he could. He destroyed human rights, he destroyed the economy. He destroyed the dignity of a person<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not one of the people who was out there pretending that I miss him. I don\u2019t miss him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also one of his personal victims, and this is a time to really commiserate and show empathy to his victims. From when he was a soldier. Someone who participated in the killing of people in the Southeast for 30 months during what is now known as the Nigerian Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was a military head of state, he violated human rights. He killed some young people who they accused of carrying drugs. When he came back the second time you know his story, yes, killings of Shiites, killings of people in southern Kaduna, killing of the EndSARS protesters in Lagos,\u201d Sowore said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Activist politician, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the late Muhammadu Buhari violated human rights when he was military Head of State and democratically elected President. This follows the death of the ex-Nigerian President on Sunday in London at the age of 82 years. 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