IPOB drags President Buhari to International Criminals Court in Hague over Nnamdi Kanu's release

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been successful charged by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the International criminal court in The Hague Netherlands.
According to Newsweek article, “Goran Sluiter, a lawyer at Dutch human rights legal firm Prakken d’Oliveira, filed the complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Friday.
Sluiter tells Newsweek that there has been an intensification of violence and crimes committed against Biafrans since Mr Buhari became the Nigerian president.”
These charges result from the killings and attacks of Pro-Biafran freedom seekers in the South east and some parts of the South South political zones of the country, according to previous Associated Press Reports, since 2015, “There have been numerous reports of pro-Biafran protesters being killed in clashes with Nigerian security forces during demonstrations. More than 20 protesters and two police officers have been killed since October 2015, AP reported, with about 200 people detained across the country. Inspector General Solomon Arase, Nigeria’s chief of police, warned protesters in December to stop their activities or face “the full weight of the law.”
Sleuter the Dutch lawyer who filed the Charges on behalf of IPOB members told Newsweek that “Nigeria is already a long time on the agenda of the [ICC] prosecutor and Nigerian courts are not dealing at all with these crimes. The time really has come for the ICC to act,” says Sluiter.
The charges were filed on behalf of 17 unarmed civilian victims  of which IPOB and their lawyer says are violations of human rights as provided in United Nations and other world charters including the Vienna and Rome Conventions, on crimes against humanity, including the use of torture and murder committed by the Nigerian security forces against pro-biafran demonstrators. Ndubuisi Osuala who cordinates IPOB branch office in Netherlands, with over 200 members told Newsweek  that “the group wishes to see Kanu released and Buhari prosecuted for overseeing crimes against Biafrans. What every IPOB member, every Biafran citizen wants is the release of our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is a freedom fighter,” says Osuala. “Secondly, we need the International Criminal Court to bring justice and equity to our case…[President Buhari] has to be prosecuted and face the justice for what he did.”
Femi Adesina, a media advisor to Buhari, declined to comment on the ICC case and told Newsweek that while Kanu’s case was ongoing, the Nigerian presidency would rather not comment on the matter. No statement has been released by ICC, generally when such complaints are filled, the world body would conduct investigations over such matter. Nigeria is a signatory to the Rome Convention from which ICC derives its powers.

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