After a critical look at the various dehumanising conditions, abuses and torture of Commonwealth citizens in several detention centres, especially in the Queen’s enclave and various violations of the rule of law principles by United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) – in contrast with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Treaty 1948 and African Charter on Human & Peoples’ Rights Law even while those detainees’ appeals are still pending before some courts of competent jurisdiction – a group of journalists drawn from 54 member-countries of the Commonwealth of Nations have come together to re-write history, for the sake of posterity.

According to the union, this could be achieved by ensuring that voice is given to the voiceless, hope made available to the hopeless, vision to the visionless and life is accorded to the traumatised, so that at the end of the day, justice will be seen to have been done by the use of the pen.

Precisely on December 15, 2015 these multiple-award-wining editors from various media outfits in Africa, Europe and United States of America expressed their rights to form a registered association in Britain called Union of Journalist Patriot, ttp://www.unionofjournalistpatriot.club, by relying on Article 10 ofAfrican Charter on Human & Peoples’ Rights, which states: “Every individual shall have the right to free association, provided that he abides by the law. Subject to the obligation of solidarity provided for in Article 29. No one may be compelled to join an association.”

Union of Journalist Patriot’s website has beenlive 100% since December 15, in the United Kingdom and across the world; and the traffic to the news pages has been very inspiring, going by the standards set by these highly revered media practitioners that cut across newspapers, digital media (online), news magazines (hard news); soft-sell (news journal) and broadcast media. The media statement signed by union's publicity secretary, Samson Shoaga, stated: “The unveiling of Union of Journalist Patriot is determined to serve as a check and gate-keeper on news dissemination, regarding how Commonwealth citizens’ rights are respected or flouted in

foreign countries, mostly in Britain and well-detailed expose to be written on any form of maladministration traceable to corruption and human rights abuses by leaders of those Commonwealth nations.”

It noted that these acclaimed journalists whose identities are known only to every member due to the importance, timely-investigation and sensitivity in undercover reportage, are drawn from the following media houses: News Express (Nigeria’s fast-growing online daily online media), YES

International Magazine (Nigeria), Safari News UK, Newspapers News Diary Online, ThisDay Newspapers (Nigeria), Africa Independent Television (AIT Nigeria), News Africa Now (South Africa); Herald (Nigeria), National Enquirer Magazine (Nigeria) and Leadership Newspapers (Nigeria).

Others are: The ICON Magazine (Nigeria), PUNCH Newspapers (Nigeria), CKN News (Nigeria), New Telegraph Newspapers, The Nation Newspaper, African Examiner (USA), News of the People Magazine (Nigeria), Sahara Weekly Magazine (Nigeria), Global Excellence Magazine (Nigeria), Swift Reporters (Nigeria),Daily Times of Nigeria, TELL Magazine (Nigeria), National Waves Magazine/Newspaper (Nigeria), Naija Standard Newspaper (Nigeria) and Asaba-Africa Blogspot (Nigeria).