What are other examples of human rights violation in Nigeria?
EMEAGWALI: Human rights violation is pervasive and deeply-entrenched in our society and we Nigerians must honestly look within ourselves. It goes beyond the environmental campaigns of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) and has to be categorized into political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights. We should critically and continuously re-examine the values of the Nigerian society and abolish those customs and cultural practices that violate the human rights of our neighbors, children and wives. Not long ago, children who were born with teeth were secretly thrown away. Even boys born with one testicle or babies born with their feet first were considered an abomination and killed. When the Oba of Benin (Akenzua) died in 1978, his city became a ghost town. Dympna Ugwu-Oju, a 42-year-old Igbo author (What Will My Mother Say : A Tribal African Girl Comes of Age in America) wrote that she was almost thrown into the bushes because she was born a twin. We re- examined
