Hassana Abubakar wrote: DSS VERDICT: ALI SHERIFF & CO.: NOT YET UHURU Let me quote the following from the SaharaReporters of Nov. 09, 2014 ...in September, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), a non-governmental organization whose mandate is to promote and protect human rights, petitioned the ICC to act on Davis revelations, asserting that the Nigerian government lacked the political will to intervene against high-profile suspects like Sheriff and Ihejirika. With your public admittance of Boko Harams activities as qualifying for crimes against humanity, we shall not bother with further legal points to qualify these atrocities under the Rome Statute, HEDA chairman Olanrewaju Suraju said. It is also instructive to assert that the Nigerian government, under the current leadership lacks the political will and judicial independence to prosecute the individuals who are friends and former subordinates of the President. In response to the petition, the Head of Information and evidence unit, Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, M. P. Dillon, wrote to confirm that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court had officially received, registered, and promised to review the submission. According the letter, the office of the ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, would treat the issues raised in the petition within its mandate. This communication has been duly entered in the communications register of the office, the letter read. We will give consideration to this communication, as appropriate, in accordance with the Provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The letter concluded with a promise by the Court to communicate its decision once determined. END Now, if the DSS (which is not a competent court of jurisdiction) thinks it has cleared Ali Modu Sheriff & co., of their involvement in Boko Haram activities in the country, we are not surprised. But the truth is, the matter is already before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Ali Modu Sheriff and Co. will still have to wait for the outcome of the ICC response. The ICC is our only hope now in a country where highly-connected criminals are protected and glorified. DO YOU AGREE WITH HASSANA?
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:26:05 +0000
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