Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has declared that retired service chiefs may not escape prosecution if
they actually committed some sort of crimes against humanity.
Ex-service chiefs, Gen Abayomi G. Olonisakin (Rtd ), Lt Gen
Tukur Y. Buratai (Rtd), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), Air Marshal Sadique
Abubakar (Rtd), and Air Vice Marshal Mohammed S. Usman (Rtd), resigned their
position as the country’s security heads last week.
And this has generated a lot of controversies around the country,
as many people feel that the nomination was to help the ex-service chiefs
escape judgement at the International Criminal Court, ICC.
Nigerians, yesterday, kicked as President Muhammadu Buhari extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, and forwarded the names of the immediate past service chiefs to the Senate
Why ambassadorial appointments may not protect ex-service chiefs from ICC probe –Ex-NIIA DG, Akinterinwa
Kayode Oyero
Former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof Bola Akinterinwa, says the appointment of ex-service chiefs as non-career ambassadors may not necessarily grant them diplomatic immunity or protect them from being probed by the International Criminal Court.
Akinterinwa, who spoke on a
PUNCH Online interview on Thursday, also doubted that the ex-service chiefs who were believed not to have performed at home would perform outside the country.
Ex-NIIA DG, Prof. Bola Akinterinwa
The PUNCH had earlier reported that ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said the court had found a reasonable basis to begin investigating members of the Nigerian Security Forces for crimes against humanity committed especially in Nigeria’s North-East under the watch of the now-former service chiefs.
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