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...... Writing about the illegal imprisonment of people who speak out against the government, Karl Maier (2000) writes:
Among the victims were the Ogoni rights activist and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, who had been hanged, and retired General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, a political power broker who had died after receiving a mysterious injection in prison. The leading political figures of the day were held incommunicado. They included Chief Moshood Abiola, the Muslim millionaire whose election as president in 1993 was halted by the military despot Babangida, and Obasanjo, the only soldier who had ever handed power to an elected civilian. Nigeria, many feared, would explode into a civil war that could spark a humanitarian disaster (Maier 3).
Nigeria has been consistent in protecting its position from its vantage point of its United Nations seat. Nicholas Wheeler (2002) exemplifies this use of UN protection when he points out in his book when he discusses the situation that lead to genocide in Rwanda:
In the absence of Western intervention, the only alternative was for African states to take the lead. In its Presidential Statement of 30 April the Security Council had requested the Secretary General to investigate this possibility. In response to Boutros-Boutros

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