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Osinbajo Bombarded With Facts Of Gross Human Rights Abuses In Nigeria
(3) adequate compensation of the individual and group victims of State killings as well as those killed by the Nomad Fulani armed group.
The rest is (4) proper and well publicized State apologies and setting up of the National Sorry Day for those killed outside the law in Nigeria during the periods under review or since June 2015 and victims’ support trust fund whereby 0.5% from the Federation Account and 30% of the living remunerations and pensions and allowances of those public office holders found culpable will be deducted monthly for two years or more, starting from January 2018 and be paid into the victims support trust fund.
The findings of the Special Criminal Investigations Board under demand shall be submitted and admitted by the 3-in-One Judicial Commissions of Enquiry under demand to assist same in its proceedings and outcomes.
DEMAND FOR INVITATION OF ICC TO PROBE AND PROSECUTE WAR CRIMES IN NIGERIA
Sir, we demand that your acting Presidency should invite the Prosecutor for Int’l Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute war crimes as raised in Amnesty Int’l Reports including the alleged death in 2016 in Army custody of 240 civilians including 29 children aged between new born and five years.
There are also similar reports by AI and ors concerning willful killing of about 1000 civilians in the Northeast counterinsurgency operations contained in their recent reports as well as the January 17th 2017 Rann IDP camp bombing in Borno State, resulting in 236 civilian deaths.
ATTACHMENTS
Sir, other important documents attached below apart from the links provided above are:
(1) copy of Intersociety’s Special Report (welcome to bleeding republic of Nigeria: a land flowing with blood and tears; with its pictorial evidence segment),
(2) the executive summary of the special report,
(3) copy of Intersociety’s statement, dated 18th June 2017 and captioned: Nigerian Army’s False Claims Against Slain Innocent Biafra Activists: Graphic Accounts (part one),
(4) copy of the concluding part of the statement, dated 22nd June 2017 and captioned: Nigerian Army’s False Claims Against 270 Slain Innocent Pro Biafra Activists & 370 Injured Others: How They Were Massacred And Maimed (Concluded).
Others are:
(5) pictures (a, b and c) of scores of slain pro Biafra activists massacred by soldiers on 29th and 30th May 2016 at pro Biafra Heroes Day mass killings and shootings in Nkpor and Onitsha being conveyed in military trucks to places where soldiers of Onitsha 302 Artillery Regiment and the Government of Anambra State criminally buried them in secret mass graves.
The pictures were scientifically and manually verified and linked to crime scenes and their perpetrators; and,
(6) pictures of 13 lifeless bodies of slain pro Biafra activists comprising those possibly shot and killed in the 9th February IPOB massacre in the premises of the Aba National High School, and immediately after; dumped by soldiers inside a burrow pit located along Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway.
It was manually found by Amnesty International team during their visit on 18th February 2016 that some of them were tied with cut pieces of Biafra flags.
The 17-page Memo was copied to the following key national and international institutions and bodies for their information and necessary actions:
(1) Chief Justice of Nigeria,
(2) Senate President of Nigeria,
(3) Deputy Senate President of Nigeria,
(4) Speaker of House of Reps,
(5) Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria,
(6) ECWA Church Worldwide,
(7) Christian Association of Nigeria,
(8) Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
(9) Islamic Movement in Nigeria,
(10) Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB Worldwide),
(11) Ekwenche Group, Chicago, USA.
(12) Alaigbo Development Foundation,
(13) EU Mission to Nigeria,
(14) Executive Director of Human Rights Watch,
(15) Secretary General of Amnesty International,
(16) Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Court, Netherlands.
Others are:
(17) UK Foreign Secretary,
(18) US Secretary of State,
(19) UN Human Rights Council,
(20) UN Special Rapporteur on Torture,
(21) UN Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions,
(22) The Council of Europe,
(23) Head of Division, Governance, Election & Human Rights of AU,
(24) Chairperson of AU,
(25) European Union, Brussels Belgium,
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