A Nigerian journalist has written a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over human rights abuses, torture and extra-judicial killing perpetrated by members of the Nigeria Army during the recent invasion of a community in the South-East region.

In a letter dated September 24, 2017 addressed to the Chief Prosecutor of the court in The Hague, Fatou Bensouda and addressed to the Information and Evidence Unit, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, a multiple award winning journalist, called on the court to intervene and stop the unlawful deployment of soldiers by the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to civilian communities in Abia State and other South-East region of Nigeria which has led to the torture, molestation, killings and severe abuse of the human rights of these civilians by officers of the Nigeria Army.”

The petition, made available to media, with the subject “PETITION AGAINST THE DEPLOYMENT OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF NIGERIA, TORTURE, KILLINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES PERPETRATED BY THE NIGERIA ARMY, THE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, MAJOR-GENERAL TUKUR BURATAI AND THE QUIT NOTICE GIVEN TO IGBOS IN THE NORTHERN STATES BY THE AREWA YOUTH CONSULTATIVE FORUM BACKED BY THE SPOKESPERSON OF THE NORTHERN ELDERS FORUM, PROF. ANGO ABDULLAHI,’ condemned the recent decision by the army to Initiate ‘Operation Python Dance’ in the South-East region which led to invasion of the home of the leader of the civil rights group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leading to the killing of some members of the group as well as other members of his community.

Kanu decried the decision by the Federal Government to initiate an attack on a civilian community in a manner that may have opened the door to genocide as has been exhibited by soldiers of the Nigeria Army in times past.

“The Nigeria Army has a very cruel history of gross human rights abuses, torture, brutal killings of citizens of her country over the years; a condemnable characteristic which have escalated since the election of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he said.

The CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award winner enumerated the many occasions members of the Nigeria Army had attacked and killed Nigeria citizens since Gen. Buratai took over as the Chief of Army Staff describing the army under his leadership as having been turned into “a killing machine of a mass order.”

“According to an investigation by the Amnesty International (AI) which analyzed 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness accounts, members of the Nigeria security agencies comprising of the army and the police embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions which resulted in the death of over 150 deaths of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-East region of the country with 60 people shoot in a space of two days,” he said.

“In the report entitled “NIGERIA: ‘BULLETS WERE RAINING EVERYWHERE’: DEADLY REPRESSION OF PRO-BIAFRA ACTIVISTS, Amnesty Iinternational (AI) documents the killing orchestrated by members of the Nigeria security agencies. For instance, according to the report, pro-Biafra activists were killed on 30 May 2016, during events to mark the 49th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, when an estimated 1,000-plus IPOB members and supporters gathered for a rally in Onitsha, Anambra state. The night before the rally, a joint security force task force raided homes and a church where IPOB members were sleeping. Several members of the IPOB were shot in several locations, predominantly in Nkpor, the venue for the gathering, and in Asaba.”

Kanu who is an activist and volunteer for some charities decried the attitude of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari who he said has shown that he is not only a sectional leader but once who has shown absolute disdain and disenchantment for Igbos from the South-East with the way he has handled security issues challenges in the country.

“There have been incidents of people from the South-South, South-East, and South-West being attacked by Fulani-herdsmen, identified in the Global Terrorism Index as the fourth most deadly terrorist group in the world after Boko Haram, ISIS and Al-Shabab. They move into communities unleashing mayhem with automatic rifles with which they sack communities but such criminals and killers are neither arrested nor prosecuted. The Federal Government does not deem it fit to deploy the army to confront these perennial terrorists neither has their activities being seriously checked because they are said to have people in the Buhari government giving them support. The Federal Government led by President Buhati pays little or no attention to this group of terror merchants who have killed over 2000 persons in the North Central, South East and South West of Nigeria,” he said.

Kanu called on the ICC to compel the Federal Government of Nigeria to adequately protect the Igbos in the North as the deadline to the Quit notice given to them to leave the region draws near with escalating news of plans by northern youths to go on with the planned attack.

“On the 19th of August 2017, President Buhari returned back from a 103 days medical trip and some few days later, the Arewa Youths withdrew the quit notice. We are hearing reports of plans to go on with the attack on the Igbos in Northern Nigeria come October 1. The Federal Government has not seriously done anything to adequately protect the Igbos in the North even as the deadline approaches.”

Kanu included in the petition a memory stick which he said contains exclusive videos, pictures and documents which he tendered to the Information and Evidence Unit of the court for their perusal.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/nigeria-journalist-petitions-icc-invasion-south-east/

Funny

Buhari file done plenty for ICC office
I think they should just give him a mass trial

Buhari is a very notorious name at he ICC.

He and Buratai must have case file by now.

Hope justice will be well served for this most wicked tyrant Nigeria have ever seen?

Not necessary.


people in power act rascally as though they will be there forever.

Buhari and Buratai will not be there in 2024.

let them bring their worst now.

Another is coming

In just 2 years Buhari has broken every record of crimes against humanity known in Nigeria ..I am sure the ICC is aware

What happened after python dance finish

fuckingAyaya:
What happened after python dance finish

Useless, brown-envelope taking journalist. Is he related to runaway Nnamdi Kanu?

Built2last:
Not necessary.


people in power act rascally as though they will be there forever.

Buhari and Buratai will not be there in 2024.

let them bring their worst now.

Another is coming

I agree with you that they will not be in power forever but it is necessary they start feeling the heat now and then feel more when they leave office

Funny clowns everyday, when the charge and bail lawyer is done, he should petition the EU, US, ECOWAS, AU and heaven as well.

Nice move.

Keep ongoing events and past attrocities top of mind of the international community.


No matter how long it takes, justice will be served. Those abusing their power and priviledges will have the world stage to explain their actions.

Wasting of time you cannot take a USA citizens to ICC talk on government Official

paiz:
If ICC cnt then OPC should

Have you seen why God is punishing Nigerians with bad leaders, you're happy b'cos you hated Nnamdi Kanu and it doesn't matter to you the illegality of Buhari's govnt towards Kanu. Tomorrow you may be at the receiving end. Kanu may be bad but what's the punishment for his "crimes", ........is it sending armoured tanks to his house and kill or abduct him?.



I love Mr karma, he will surely visit those in support of this evil.

Is this guy related to Nnamdi Kanu?

For all evidences of Kanu soliciting for arms, calling for genocide against the hausas and yorubas, the seizure of 2000+ biafran ammunitions and massacre of Hausa community in Abia against the ugly albino to be presented by the Nigeria government. You guys will continue to loose on all sides, you can't fight a whole nation, abuse, curse other tribes and think you will survive it.

Nigeria is a sovereign nation and couldn't be dictated to by miscreants and touts. The Nigeria military acted within the ambient of the law and can't be questionable or you rather take your case to hell.

Bring out your ass sucking slowpoke Kanu from his hiding place or he will be declared wanted by the law dead or alive or shot at sight. He could only hide but not for long.

Do this goats think the Nigerian government is afraid of the ICC. Even when witnesses starts coming from their fellow biafrains against Kanu, they will know international politics is not for kids.

He will be proscribed tomorrow.......

Now the right way

Ghen ghen
And so it begins ........

Lets see how sarki n omenka will save their masters

This ppl go write petition tire..u think u can disturb the peace of a sovereign state and have peace..

Buhari and his dry ass will end up in ICC cell

Another waste of time. If only this bozo knew how many petitions ICC receive per day. Lol. Na so e easy.

Next time don't be chestbeating idiots.

Despite the petitions the civilians of South Sudan are writing to international bodies as regards the atrocities going on there on per second basis, they still drag their feet!

Very soon buharia would soon be decleared wanted by the ICC.

Oblang:
This ppl go write petition tire..u think u can disturb the peace of a sovereign state and have peace..

Keep deceiving yourself


Ask Sudan's President why he doesn't travel anyhow and why he ensures he get a clearance from the country he is going to before embarking on the journey

The murderous dictators and demonic pythons will surely pay for the atrocities that they have committed.

other well documented petitions will follow up to make sure that even if these murderous pythons leave power they will pay for the innocent lives taken .

The Biafra agitations of over 50years is not one that can be quenched by bullets and guns nor name callings or proscription.

Very soon a whole lot of people on this thread will come out to talk about ''one Nigeria'' isn't it obvious that irrespective of our ethnic affiliations on this thread that our hatred for each other's ethnic affiliations would never allow us to comment objectively and rationally?
Can we ever come out of these suffering and problems by our leaders with these mindsets??

OjukwuWarBird:



Keep deceiving yourself


Ask Sudan's President why he doesn't travel anyhow

OK na here we gather dey...

Opinionated:
A Nigerian journalist has written a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over human rights abuses, torture and extra-judicial killing perpetrated by members of the Nigeria Army during the recent invasion of a community in the South-East region.

In a letter dated September 24, 2017 addressed to the Chief Prosecutor of the court in The Hague, Fatou Bensouda and addressed to the Information and Evidence Unit, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, a multiple award winning journalist, called on the court to intervene and stop the unlawful deployment of soldiers by the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to civilian communities in Abia State and other South-East region of Nigeria which has led to the torture, molestation, killings and severe abuse of the human rights of these civilians by officers of the Nigeria Army.”

The petition, made available to media, with the subject “PETITION AGAINST THE DEPLOYMENT OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF NIGERIA, TORTURE, KILLINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES PERPETRATED BY THE NIGERIA ARMY, THE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, MAJOR-GENERAL TUKUR BURATAI AND THE QUIT NOTICE GIVEN TO IGBOS IN THE NORTHERN STATES BY THE AREWA YOUTH CONSULTATIVE FORUM BACKED BY THE SPOKESPERSON OF THE NORTHERN ELDERS FORUM, PROF. ANGO ABDULLAHI,’ condemned the recent decision by the army to Initiate ‘Operation Python Dance’ in the South-East region which led to invasion of the home of the leader of the civil rights group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leading to the killing of some members of the group as well as other members of his community.

Kanu decried the decision by the Federal Government to initiate an attack on a civilian community in a manner that may have opened the door to genocide as has been exhibited by soldiers of the Nigeria Army in times past.

“The Nigeria Army has a very cruel history of gross human rights abuses, torture, brutal killings of citizens of her country over the years; a condemnable characteristic which have escalated since the election of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he said.

The CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award winner enumerated the many occasions members of the Nigeria Army had attacked and killed Nigeria citizens since Gen. Buratai took over as the Chief of Army Staff describing the army under his leadership as having been turned into “a killing machine of a mass order.”

“According to an investigation by the Amnesty International (AI) which analyzed 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness accounts, members of the Nigeria security agencies comprising of the army and the police embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions which resulted in the death of over 150 deaths of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-East region of the country with 60 people shoot in a space of two days,” he said.

“In the report entitled “NIGERIA: ‘BULLETS WERE RAINING EVERYWHERE’: DEADLY REPRESSION OF PRO-BIAFRA ACTIVISTS, Amnesty Iinternational (AI) documents the killing orchestrated by members of the Nigeria security agencies. For instance, according to the report, pro-Biafra activists were killed on 30 May 2016, during events to mark the 49th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, when an estimated 1,000-plus IPOB members and supporters gathered for a rally in Onitsha, Anambra state. The night before the rally, a joint security force task force raided homes and a church where IPOB members were sleeping. Several members of the IPOB were shot in several locations, predominantly in Nkpor, the venue for the gathering, and in Asaba.”

Kanu who is an activist and volunteer for some charities decried the attitude of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari who he said has shown that he is not only a sectional leader but once who has shown absolute disdain and disenchantment for Igbos from the South-East with the way he has handled security issues challenges in the country.

“There have been incidents of people from the South-South, South-East, and South-West being attacked by Fulani-herdsmen, identified in the Global Terrorism Index as the fourth most deadly terrorist group in the world after Boko Haram, ISIS and Al-Shabab. They move into communities unleashing mayhem with automatic rifles with which they sack communities but such criminals and killers are neither arrested nor prosecuted. The Federal Government does not deem it fit to deploy the army to confront these perennial terrorists neither has their activities being seriously checked because they are said to have people in the Buhari government giving them support. The Federal Government led by President Buhati pays little or no attention to this group of terror merchants who have killed over 2000 persons in the North Central, South East and South West of Nigeria,” he said.

Kanu called on the ICC to compel the Federal Government of Nigeria to adequately protect the Igbos in the North as the deadline to the Quit notice given to them to leave the region draws near with escalating news of plans by northern youths to go on with the planned attack.

“On the 19th of August 2017, President Buhari returned back from a 103 days medical trip and some few days later, the Arewa Youths withdrew the quit notice. We are hearing reports of plans to go on with the attack on the Igbos in Northern Nigeria come October 1. The Federal Government has not seriously done anything to adequately protect the Igbos in the North even as the deadline approaches.”

Kanu included in the petition a memory stick which he said contains exclusive videos, pictures and documents which he tendered to the Information and Evidence Unit of the court for their perusal.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/nigeria-journalist-petitions-icc-invasion-south-east/

ICC dat don't have level so dat u calling he is really not serious

MTKbudapest:
Very soon buharia would soon be decleared wanted by the ICC.

What are you waiting for, why can't you go petition yours too?