BREAKING: Sunday Igboho, 49 Yoruba groups drag Buhari to ICC
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Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho, along with some 49 Yoruba self-determination groups have filed a 27-page petition against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The petition, which was submitted to the ICC by an International Lawyer, Aderemilekun Omojola, Esq. on behalf of Yoruba personalities, had several Yoruba leaders, self-determination groups and individuals as signatories.
The respondents in the suit along with President Buhari are Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Alli, current Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya, the Commandant-General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdulahi Gana Muhammadu
Others are former Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai, former Inspectors General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Muhammed Adamu, former Chief of Air Force, Sadiq Abubakar; former Commandant-General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Services, Mohammed Babandede.
The petitioners accused Nigerian government of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Yoruba people living in Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Okun Land in Kogi, and Kwara States.
They blamed the respondents for killing members of the petitioners group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part.
The ICC’s Head of Information and Evidence Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor, Mr. Mark P. Dilon has formally acknowledged receipt of the petition.
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Mr. Dilon wrote in part: “As soon as a decision is reached to formally commence investigation into this petition, we will inform you, in writing, and provide you, with reasons for this decision.
“This communication has been duly entered in the Communications Register of the Office.
“We will give consideration to this communication, as appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of
the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,.”
See the attached letter below:
