A civil society organisation has petitioned the International Criminal Court on behalf of Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State where 17 military personnel were killed in March. The petition addressed to the office of ICC Prosecutor Mr Karim A.A. Khan is against President Bola Tinubu and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, over alleged ethnic cleansing, stabbing and bombing of residents of the community and the Urhobo people in general.
"Every criminal situation should be handled by the police, as stated in the Constitution. Our constitution does not authorize the Army to proclaim any Nigerian wanted. The constitution does not enable the Army to arrest and prosecute anyone. It isn't their responsibility. Only in Nigeria does the army do everything, which is bad for our constitution. "The Army should avoid committing a constitutional violation by designating civilians wanted for criminal charges. Only the police have the constitutional authority to arrest, prosecute, and/or declare somebody wanted, not the army. If there is a crisis somewhere, the police have the authority to intervene and arrest the situation, not the army.
A quote commonly, albeit incorrectly, ascribed to the 1921 Nobel Prize winner, the physicist, Albert Einstein, affirms that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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