Emeka Umeagbalasi Attends International Visitors Leadership Program In USA At The Invitation Of The Government Of The United States (Lagos-Nigeria, 6th day of June, 2013)-We in the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) rejoice with our Chairman of the Board, Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi, over his meritorious nomination as one of the 24 international personalities and only Nigerian in the specific program (NGO Management & related others), to attend the June 2013 session of the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP), organized and sponsored by the United States Department of the State. The notice of his successful nomination was communicated to him by the Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria; vide a mail, dated 27th day of February, 2013. About The Program: Each year, the Government of the United States through her Ambassadors/Consular-Generals in various countries of the world, selects 21 to 24 socially unstained personalities for the highly competitive and prestigious program. The participants are selected from among hundreds or thousands who filled the IVLP forms. The successful participants are drawn from both public and private social institutions and establishments, which include civil rights/pro-democracy leaders and members, former and serving top government functionaries, leaders and members of community, faith, health and physically challenged based organizations, etc. The IVLP program is subdivided into sub-topics such as NGO Management Course, etc with successful participants drawn according to their professional competence. The IVLP June 2013 Program is expected to last for three weeks, beginning from June 10 in Washington DC to June 29 in Denver, Colorado when it closes. Other distinguished participants for this program are drawn from Mexico, Lebanon, Latvia, Kenya, Italy, India, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, China, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, West Bank(Palestine), Yemen and the United Kingdom. The program is designed to expose the participants to rich US cultures including unity in diversity and during the prestigious program, participants will visit Washington DC and Seattle including the White House in the State of Washington; Louisville, Kentucky; Huntington and Birmingham, Alabama; East Lansing, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. The program also prepares the participants for future credible political leadership at local, national, regional and international levels. Our Board Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi is reputed and known locally, nationally and internationally for waging numerous successful advocacy wars against the killing fields of the Bakassi Boys and the Onitsha Traders Vigilante Group in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, which prompted the Federal Government of Nigeria to dislodge the murderous squads(AVS) in September 2002. He led a fierce struggle against the masterminds of the 2003 armada of electoral fraud that foisted the illegal regime of Dr. Chris Ngige on the people of Anambra State, which was ousted judicially in March, 2006. He was also given credit for the drastic reduction in February 2012 of over 3,500 police road blocks and associated unlawful killings across the country. The Intersociety, which he founded, has been in the forefront in the campaigns against the continuing massacre of the Nigerian citizens of Igbo extraction in different parts of Nigeria and systematic sidelining of the race in federal appointments and promotions. His group is the leading group calling for the fishing out of those police SARS operatives who masterminded the massacre and dumping in Ezu River of over 50 young Nigerian citizens of Igbo extraction in January 2013. Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi had been in rights activism since 1995, when he joined then Amnesty International, Nigerian Section and later became the Onitsha Pre-group Coordinator. He also joined Human Rights Watch in 1995 as an international contributing member. He made his mark in the Civil Liberties Organization, Nigeria where he rose from the Anambra State Branch Pub Secretary, to its vice chairman between 1999 and 2001, before becoming its State chairman and vice chairman of the Southeast Zone from 2001 to 2007. He has been the Intersociety’s Board Chairman since 2008. Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi ia also a major contributor on burning national, regional and international issues. Under his Intersociety’s leadership, over 150 major advocacy activities have been carried out locally, nationally, regionally and internationally. His nomination by the Government of the United States; the world’s number one country, is not only an honour well deserved, but also an international encouragement and moral support for him to do more and improve upon what he has done. Signed: Ifeoma Chidozie, Administrative Secretary For: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law-Intersociety 41, Miss Elems Street, Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria [email protected], umeagbalasi@yahoo WWW.intersociety-ng.org (All Rights Reserved: Intersociety 2013)
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