Copies of the report summaries and that of our special report (welcome to bleeding republic of Nigeria: a land flowing with blood and tears) are attached below.
Sir, our writing you, therefore, is solely predicated on the foregoing. As you may professorially be aware or unaware, whenever heinous crimes or issues of gross abuses of human rights such as the above named are raised against some public office holders of a serving central Government such as yours, the said Government must exercise its powers and rights under the International Law’s Principles of Complementarity and No Impunity by ensuring as matter of uttermost immediacy and public importance that the masterminds or chief culprits are fished out and brought to book accordingly and in line with the international best practices.
The serving Government must in doing so measure up with the doctrine of ability and willingness and where it fails or refuses to do so within a reasonable stipulated period of time frame, such central home Government loses its rights and powers and a doctrine of inability and unwillingness will be invoked or entered against it.
It is at this stage that regional and international criminal remedies and safeguards will inexcusably be resorted to and defense of territorial sovereignty or integrity will fail woefully if invoked by the municipal Government.
These are also clearly provided in the Rome Statute for International Criminal Court of 1998, signed and ratified by Nigeria on 27th September 2001.
We had during the public presentation of our referenced special report on 12th March 2017 demanded and given the present central Government which you now head in acting capacity 90 days to investigate all the gross abuses of human rights under complaint. Unfortunately, the demand went unmet.
We are using this medium again to extend our demand which is also a popular demand, for another 90 days to elapse by 1st of October 2017 within which your acting Presidency must have started and advanced the criminal and civil enquiries being demanded.
Suspected Chief Culprits:
1. Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai: vicarious and operational culpability in the massacre and maiming of defenseless Shiite Muslims and pro Biafra activists.
2. Governor Nasir el-Rufai/Government of Kaduna State: complicity in the massacre of Shiite Muslims and Southern Kaduna Xian killings.
3. Governor William Maduabuchi Obiano: complicity and vicarious culpability in the 2nd and 17th December 2015 pro Biafra protest killings and the 29th and 30th May 2016 pro Biafra Heroes Day massacre in Anambra State.
4. Governor Okezie Victor Ikpeazu: complicity and vicarious culpability in the 18th and 29th January and 9th February 2016 IPOB massacre in Aba.
5. Retired IGP Solomon Arase: (he ordered the maximum use of force and violent crackdown against unarmed and nonviolent pro Biafra protesters): vicarious and operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre/mass shootings.
6. IGP Ibrahim Kpotum Idris: operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre in his capacity then as AIG Federal OPS
7. DIG Habila Joshak (then CP Abia), now DIG OPS: vicarious and operational culpability in the pro Biafra singing and rally massacre in Aba.
8. AIG Hosea Karma (then CP Anambra), now AIG Zone 9: vicarious and operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre of 29th and 30th May 2016.
9. Major Gen Ibrahim Attahiru (then GOC 82 Division, Enugu and now theatre commander, Operation Lafiya Dole): vicarious and operational culpability in the pro-Biafra protests’ massacre of 29th and 30th May 2016 in Anambra State and Asaba spill over massacre.
10. CP Babatunde Johnson Kokomo (then DCP OPS, Anambra), now CP Armaments at Force Headquarters: operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre of 29th and 30th May 2016.
11. Col Issah Mehadi Abdullahi (then Commander/Cantonment Commandant, Onitsha 302 Artillery; now at NIPSS, Kuru near Jos): operational culpability in the pro Biafra jubilation and protests’ massacre of 17th December 2015 and 29th and 30th May 2016 in Anambra State.
12. Major C.O. Ibrahim of Military Police Unit (leader of army massacre operations of 29th and 30th May 2016 in Anambra State): operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
13. CSP James Oshim Nwafor (OC/SARS, Anambra during the 2nd December 2015 joint massacre operations at Onitsha Niger Bridgehead, now at CP’s Admin Office, Awka): operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
14. CSP Bassey Abang (OC/SARS, Anambra during 29th and 30th May 2016 massacre, now OC/Commander IG Strike Force at Force Headquarters, Abuja): operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
15. ACP Peter W. Nwagbara ( he was Aba Area Commander during 9th February 2016 IPOB massacre, now Police Area Commander of the Akwanga Area Command in Nasarawa State) operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
16. Lt Col Sidi Umar Kasim (then Commander of 144 Battalion at Ukwa Ngwa that massacred IPOB activists on 9th of February 2016 in Aba. 144 Battalion is a unit of 14 Brigade of Nigerian Army, Ohafia in Abia State): operational culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
17. Retired SSS Director Musa Lawal Daura (SSS DG; his agency supplied hostile intelligence leading to the massacre in addition to participation of his men in the joint security taskforce or JTF that perpetrated the mass murder of pro-Biafra activists): vicarious culpability in the pro Biafra protests’ massacre.
18. Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff): vicarious and operational culpability in the 17th January 2017 Rann IDP bombing in Maiduguri that killed 236 defenseless civilians (war crimes).
