Nnamdi Kanu Dragged to ICC(See Shocking Details)

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been dragged to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the mass graves allegedly discovered by security operatives in Abia state. In a criminal complaint filed by a civil rights activist, Albert Ella, Kanu and the IPOB were accused of committing heinous crimes against Nigerians.

The Department of State Services had in a statement accused members of IPOB of killing and burying over fifty people in a shallow grave in Isuikwuato local government area of Abia state. The DSS also claimed that five out of the bodies exhumed from the grave were identified as Hausa-Fulani’s killed by IPOB members.

To this, Ella through his lawyer, Edward Omaga of the Graylaw Solicitors said records show that the fifty unidentified persons, whose dead bodies the DSS had exhumed but hidden for security reasons, were murdered by IPOB with the use of chemicals and other dangerous instruments against the Rome statute. Ella’s complaint which was dated April 13, and filed on April 19 at the ICC has also been acknowledged by Leigh Swigart, a senior trial attorney in the office of the prosecutor of the international court.

 

Ella in his claims said the unidentified victims were also suspected to be Hausa-Fulani people who are entitled to right to life as guaranteed under Chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and other international human rights instruments.

 

He said the victims deserve justice from the ICC urgently. Also Omaga said Ella’s complaint seeks to expose the divisive and gruesome activities of IPOB in recent times. It also urged the ICC to open investigation and prosecute Kanu and other members of the IPOB who claimed to be freedom fighters following the unwillingness of Nigerian courts to try them. Also, Wolfgang Bendler, a German based legal practitioner on the list of counsels at the ICC has been appointed to work full time on this case as international head of the legal team to be assisted by Mr. Omaga.

“We commiserate with families of those who lost their lives in the hands of IPOB and assure all well-meaning Nigerians that justice devoid of political undertone is tenable.

“The end will soon come for all the purveyors of evil and iniquity in this country. We are not asking those who had associated with IPOB in the hope of using intellect and due process to pursue self-determination to forget their quest.

 

 

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South Africa may quit ICC over Bashir case

 

South Africa says it may withdraw from the International Criminal Court after an outcry over the government's refusal to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges

Sudan’s president managed to leave South Africa in defiance of a court order - and escape possible arrest for genocide - by not presenting his passport at the airport, according to an official statement released on Thursday.

President Omar al-Bashir was driven to Waterkloof air base in a motorcade escorted by the South African police, but immigration officials apparently had no idea of his presence.

The High Court has compelled the authorities to explain how Mr Bashir was able to leave South Africa in his official jet after an African Union summit earlier this month.

A judge had ordered the government to prevent Mr Bashir’s departure, pending a ruling on whether he should be arrested in accordance with an indictment from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A statement from Mkuseli Apleni, the director general of the Department of Home Affairs, says that he informed all ports of entry and exit about the court order. Nevertheless, Mr Bashir and the Sudanese delegation were then escorted to Waterkloof and allowed to take off.

Mr Apleni explained that officials at the military air base had not realised that Sudan’s president would be part of a Sudanese delegation, planning to depart on the Sudanese presidential jet, displaying the name “SUDAN” and carrying the flight number SUDAN01. The officials did not understand that Mr Bashir was present because, in accordance with normal procedure for heads of state, he did not personally show his passport.

“The passport of President Bashir was not part of the passports that were handed to immigration for processing of the persons that were on board the flight,” said Mr Apleni. “It would then appear from the above that President Bashir departed from the republic without his passport presented to the immigration officer.”

Jeff Radebe, the minister in the presidency, said that South Africa was considering leaving the ICC. “Such a decision will only be taken when South Africa has exhausted all remedies available to it,” he said.

But Mr Justice Dustan Mlambo of the High Court said the state had broken the law by allowing Mr Bashir to leave. He instructed prosecutors to consider charging the relevant officials. “A democratic state based on the rule of law cannot exist or function if the government ignores its constitutional obligations and fails to abide by court orders,” he said.

Telegraph...