₦airaland Forum

JomoGbomo2:
whats the difference between mend's bombing and these set of ignoramus bombin, the simple problem is that we have insecurity issue which must be addressed.

Chrisbenogor:
My grouse is this, we are complaining about a ruling party that is not doing enough. The opposition are worse off, I curse the day I thought to vote in Buhari and the CPC obviously all they care about is the North. I ask again is it too difficult to organize a press conference and condemn the killing of any youth corp member? I mean this bad too bad, how will these people then assure us that they are willing to listen to the cries of people not outside their region?

Look Yar adua was forced on us through a farce that was called an election, why did they not go about killing people in the North then? Oh well because they got what they wanted abi? having fully experienced the NYSC I fcking know what these people that died are passing through am sorry I am might not be rational I am just so angry!

In the last 48 hours, some people have even told us as party leaders to call the protesters to order as if we have leash on them. General Muhammadu Buhari, in a statesman-like manner, had sued for peace. It must be stressed here that on Monday the 18th of April, 2011; while travelling to Abuja from Kaduna, General Buhari’s convoy was attacked. The drivers escaped with injuries.

muami:
Almost two years ago in the heat of the Niger Delta crisis, the Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Hon. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, said Nigeria could afford to sacrifice 20 million people in the crisis-prone Niger Delta if that would bring peace to the remaining 120 million other Nigerians.

I think his suggestion is now applicable to the North

PapaBrowne:
This is good. Bassey and Beaf, you guys are great!  Never knew it was possible to take such a case to the international criminal court. After your posts, I have gone through the statutes of the ICC and not only is it very possible, they have two cases, the Kenyan one and the Ugandan one that is very similar to a case that could be built around Buhari/Bakare incitements! All that is needed is the accent of "The Prosecutor"!!

Building critical mass amongst the populace using social networks is the perfect starting point. Right now, the angst amongst the populace against Buhari is at it's peak, hence people would be glad to sign up! Something must be done to punish these kinds of evil men who wouldd stop at nothing to achieve thier selfish ambitions and this is the way to go!! The lives of all those killed is not less than the freedom of the evil tyrants!



I'm going to do more research on this angle and see how we can make it a possibility!!
The message would be spread and the world would hear that enough is enough of these kinds of violence!!

[size=14pt]ICC prosecutor to probe whether crimes committed in Nigeria[/size]

The office of the International Criminal Court prosecutor expressed concern Thursday about post-election violence in Nigeria and said it would investigate whether crimes had been committed.

"The office of the prosecutor is closely following on the situation in Nigeria and is concerned with the outbreak of violence surrounding the National Assembly and presidential elections of April 2011," a statement said.

"The office will seek to establish whether the recent violence may have been planned and organized and whether crimes falling within the court's jurisdiction may have been committed."

The ICC, based in The Hague, is the world's only independent, permanent tribunal with the jurisdiction to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

It can only pursue charges if a member state is unwilling or unable to do so.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's office said it was mindful that governorship elections on April 26 could lead to further violence, and warned that "those who commit atrocities to gain power will be held to account".

Curfews and military patrols have largely restored calm after rioting broke out in northern Nigeria following southern incumbent Goodluck Jonathan's election win over northerner Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend and quickly spread across the region.

A Nigerian rights group says more than 200 people were killed, but authorities have refused to provide a death toll, fearing it could provoke reprisals. The number of displaced has risen to 60,000, the Red Cross says.

The office of the prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation in 2004 into alleged crimes committed in central Nigeria, which signed up to the court's founding Rome Statute in 2001.

© 2011 AFP

fawazbruce:
I support the PDP leadership. When an illiterate like buhari says the votes were rigged and he points to his field agents as his evidence, you don't blame him. He is just an illiterate hausa fulani man who joined the army and rose to the top: he's either giving orders or taking orders. he lacks analytical reasoning abilities. If they have evidence, they should please bring it forward. We also have evidence of the underaged voters that were used all over the sharia northern parts of Nigeria for the presidential election.

We will meet in court, if they dare!!!

Pataki:
This nauseating dunce is back again.

Keep glorifying your fanciful daftness.

Your evidence is NN24? The same NN24 you claimed was not being watched by the local village man in a remote area in Nigeria who is busy eating Goodluck biscuits? Simply because NN24 is a cable channel. You see your idiocy in the open?

And for sake of posterity, Bakare never encouraged violence. He simply stated the obvious which CNN had equally asked GEJ as at far back October 2010.

GenBuhari:
@Beaf do not try to insult me because, you are losing the argument.

Is it not true that there is mounting evidence coming in of widespread rigging?

I would consider myself unhinged or of low intelligence , when I knowingly accept rigged elections without protest, whilst deluding myself that I live in a democracy

Any further offensive or insulting post from you would be reported to moderator

texazzpete:
So how did a Southern Christian talking about 'wild wild north' lead to angry illiterate Northern MUSLIMS in the streets?

Please post the video here or we'll treat the bolded as mere falsehood. A Google search of 'Bakare Kerosene matches' yields your own post as the top ranked answer which would never have been the case if Bakare made such an incendiary (forgive the pun ) statement.

So provide that video or perhaps you'll be the one getting sued for defamation of character

texazzpete:
I remember seeing you jubilating here on nairaland when MEND attacked and slew NINE innocent people in Lagos in the Atlas Cove jetty bombing. Isn't it a tad hypocritical for you now to take this stand?

Beaf:
I believe this is the proper way to go, especially as the ICJ signalled interest two days ago. What we need to do is start up a social networking movement to gather evidence for submission to the ICJ. That network will also presure the ICJ for action and keep the matter burning in the Nigerian press.

Another thing such a movement can do is go out to actively aqcuire membership of the bereaved, those who lost businesses, wellbeing, were injured or traumatised. With that, carrying out a defining and Earthshaking class action will be straightforward and easy.

Nothing stops us from keeping both prongs of action going simultaneously. I hail PapaBrowne for his passion and starting our thought processes.

GenBuhari:
online NL polls are only one of mounting evidence that the elections were rigged:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-651963.0.html

“General Buhari as we know in the last few days has been calling for peace while demanding justice. It is the brazen stealing of the votes of the people that has caused these reactions and [size=14pt]it is a shame that Prof. Jega who many people have accorded integrity that is now suspect and to open his mouth in brazen display of connivance with those who are manipulating the will of the people.[/size]”

Bassey131:
@ PapaBrowne,
Please consider also a possibilty of trial by the ICJ- International Court of Justice in The Hague for human rights violations. My   understanding is that, the ICJ are looking at these killings.There is a similar case going on right now involving opposition politicians  (from either Uganda or Kenya) for elections violence.
If indeed you have video evidence of what Pastor Bakare said, then by all means send it to ICJ. I am in support of your action. Some of you people may think this is funny, but PapaBrowne's impending legal action is quite real. I am sure a well versed Civil Rights Lawyer will guide you.

Gbawe:
I think so too. With the way votes were cast , it is clear Majority in the North opposed GEJ's ambition . What that implies is for anyone to interprete and for time to confirm or disprove. It is funny some think , by voting GEJ , they are voting out the "born-to-rule" North . People should look closely at all the Northerners behind GEJ . They are also "born-to-rule" in inclination. Their history shows it eg Yuguda who worked passionately to ensure comatose Yar Adua was propped up as "fit and recovering" just to prevent power being handed to GEJ. The "born-to-rule" supporters of GEJ only differ to Ciroma et al in the sense that they do not mind to rule by proxy and through a 'front' . We will see how Jonathan will perform the miracle of working against the interest of his Northern 'backers' (and they are many) to deliver for Non-Northerners who voted for him unreservedly .

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NBA President, Mr Joseph Daudu, SAN, in a statement, yesterday, said: “It is with great disappointment and sadness that the NBA notes the tragic aftermath of the presidential election, particularly after the rightful winner was declared by INEC as duly elected.

“In the past three days, hundreds of innocent Nigerians, who are not of northern extraction or are from the North and are Christians have been brutally and savagely killed, churches in Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi, Yobe among others, have been torched/burnt down, shops and other businesses of Nigerians referred to as strangers in their own country have been looted.

“The highways are no longer passable as Christians and other identifiable non indigenes are pulled out of vehicles and slaughtered. The implication is legion.

“Federal Government of Nigeria must vigorously address the security issue. The approach to the present crisis is deplorable. It questions the unity of this country and calls for urgent mechanisms to address that concept.

“There is no point in living in any part of the world where your ‘hosts’ turn against you killing and maiming their ‘guests’ if they can be so referred to. It is necessary to advise that this episode must not be swept under the carpet and the cold blooded murderers must be brought to book and justice served to the memory of all that untimely lost their lives in this crisis.

“If , however, the Federal Government  refuses or omits to bring the culprits to justice we shall be left with no option that to approach the International Criminal Court of Justice for warrants to issue against the leaders of organisations that gave platform for these crimes that include mass murder and genocide.

Government must also act in the interest of maintaining the unity of this country. Unless we have so soon forgotten the lessons of history, the 1967_1970 civil war started on a similar note of loss of lives. If not curbed by bringing persons who partook in such crimes to book, then what we may be up against will be terrifying.  What however is not known is where the theatre of redress will be located.

“Consequently, government is enjoined to bring all those involved in this carnage to book. It is also necessary to constitute a high powered commission of inquiry so as to collate the extent of loss of lives and property and every opportunity given to aggrieved or affected persons to speak out, Thirdly, such commission should be empowered to pay compensation for lives and property lost and same be deducted from the accounts of states where the losses or deaths occurred.

Fourthly, the National Assembly should consider enacting stiffer laws to protect the lives, liberty and property of every Nigerian regardless of where he resides in this country. Fifthly and most importantly is that the Governorship elections in the affected States must be postponed until at least law and order are fully restored.

[size=14pt]Part of the objective of the masterminds of this purge is to intimidate non indigenes for the last election as well as punish them for daring to vote according to their choice and conscience. It will be a travesty of the electoral process if the remaining election is conducted under this very ominous cloud in the affected States.[/size]

“The NBA thanks Nigerians in states not affected for resisting the temptation to take reprisal action. An eye for an eye will make the whole country blind.

This is a major test for the Jonathan administration, which will succeed itself shortly and it should not think lightly of the assignment ahead.

The Party is over. Nigerians expect security, the industrialisation of the nation, the provision of basic amenities such as power, education, health, transportation and a peaceful environment for the conduct of business. The in_coming government must deliver,” he added.
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Beaf: Some Buhari people -
"Its a primitive World, where we are ethnically bigoted, religiously twisted, tell lies, throw stones and bombs!
If no Northern consensus candidate stands a chance, we will kill Southerners and make the country ungovernable!"