Two disparate groups have separately approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, Netherlands, seeking prosecution of government officials and key individuals accused of aiding and abetting the activities of the deadly Boko Haram insurrection in Nigeria. The Northern Consensus Movement (NCM), a coalition of community based organisations in northern Nigeria, and the Human and Environmental Development Agenda are praying the ICC to bring all sponsors and accomplices in the Boko Haram carnage to book. In a petition to the ICC signed by its representative, Musa Suleiman, the NCM said it has been keenly watching the acts of impunity being perpetrated against the hapless populations of the north east and other parts of the north by criminal and unpatriotic elements. “We have chronicled all of these and we are announcing and sending notice that the time of reckoning has come. In this new democratic age, there is no hiding place for terrorist and those who sponsor them. “Consequently, we have formally reported Alhaji Modu Sheriff former governor of Borno State & the former Nigerian Army Chief, General Ihejirika to the International Court of Justice? “Our petition to the court is aimed at prosecuting these two persons whose names appear frequently in the numerous allegations for sponsorship of Boko Haram. - See more at: abujavoice/northern-group-mulls-sherrif-ihejirika-to-intl-criminal-court/#sthash.z5a4vNs4.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:18:04 +0000
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