ICC's Head of Information and Evidence Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor, Mr. Mark P. Dilon, said that "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.
The International Criminal Court has formally
acknowledged receipt of a 27-page petition filed by the Leader of Ilana Omo
Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo,
fondly called Sunday Igboho and other 49 Yoruba Self-Determination Groups
against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of Justice and Antoney General
of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur
Buratai and former Inspectors General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Muhammed
Adamu.
In the petition, signed by several leaders of Yoruba self-determination groups and submitted at the ICC on their behalf by their lawyer, Aderemilekun Omojola, the Nigerian leaders were accused of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Yoruba people of Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Okun Land in Kogi, and Kwara states respectively.
According to a statement made available to
SaharaReporters on Wednesday by the Communications Manager to Akintoye, Maxwell
Adeleye, others who signed the petition with the Ilana Omo Odua leader and
Ighoho are Chief Imam of Yoruba in Ilorin, Kwara state, Shielk Raheem
Aduranigba, leader of Obinrin Oodua Agbaye, Chief Simisade Kuku, leader of
Yoruba Strategy Alliance, Babatunde Omololu, General Secretary of Ilana Omo
Oodua, Arc. George Akinola, and 44 others.
In a letter to the petitioners' lawyer obtained by
SaharaReporters, the ICC's Head of Information and Evidence Unit of the Office
of the Prosecutor, Mr. Mark P. Dilon, said that "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.”
Other Nigerian government officials petitioned are Comptroller General of Customs, Hammid Alli, Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya, former Chief of Airforce, Sadiq Abubakar, former Commandant-General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Services, Mohammed Babandede and the Current Commandant-General of NSCDC, Abdulahi Gana Muhammadu.
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