Private Military and Security Companies Must Be Quickly Regulated, Nigeria’s Dr. Chris Kwaja Tells UN Human Rights Council

Standpoint Media Nigeria Limited | 19 September, 2019

It was the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9th, 2019 and Nigeria’s Dr. Chris Kwaja, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the right of peoples to self-determination was on the stage. Below are excerpts from the statement at the interactive session, published as such just to let Dr Kwaja say it in his own words on a key dimension of the paradox of over-abundance peculiar to Africa and Latin America: the violent turn at the sites of exploitation of natural resources towards securing vested interests.
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