NORTHERN ELDERS TO DRAG IHEJIRIKA, 6 OTHERS TO ICC OVER BAMA DEATHS

 

The  Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday vowed to sue  the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika and six others  to the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in the Hague over their alleged role in last year’s violence in Bama, and Giwa Barracks all in Borno State while battling members of the Islamic Terrorists sect, Boko Haram.

The NEF however, did not name the other  six persons.
 
A statement signed by the Chairman of the NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi made available to Saturday Vanguard in Kaduna yesterday said that  the former Army Chief and six others were to be charged for extra-judicial killings by soldiers in Bama.

According to NEF, the former Army Chief will also be charged with the other six for strangulation of civilians in Giwa Barrack, in   underground detention centre.

Read part of the Communiqué: “It would be recalled that, the Northern Elders Forum had set up  two committees of legal and security experts to investigate the details of the gruesome use of force against unarmed civilians in Bama and other parts of Borno State and forward appropriate recommendations.

”At our meeting in Kaduna on the 15th January, 2014, we received the reports of the  two committees on Security and Legal Matters, regarding extra-judicial killings by soldiers in Bama and the act of strangulating civilians in Giwa Barracks using an underground detention centre, while depositing the corpses in hospital.