ANALYSIS: Buratai: A legacy blotted by massacres, extrajudicial killings
Tukur Buratai, a lieutenant general, was pulled out of the army on Friday after his resignation as army chief three days earlier. 6 min read
The over five years that Tukur Buratai used as Nigeria’s army chief may have been characterised by some successes against Boko Haram, but it was also filled with massive extrajudicial killings of hundreds of Nigerians by soldiers under his watch.
Majority of the soldiers and officers involved in the extrajudicial killings were never prosecuted or punished for their crimes, an indication the atrocities were committed with the approval of the army leadership led by Mr Buratai. In fact, in one of the cases, the army murdered hundreds of unarmed civilians and said it did so because they had blocked a road being used by Mr Buratai and thus endangered his life.
Lai Mohammed Lambasts Those Calling For Probe Of Ex-Service Chiefs, Calls Them Unpatriotic
Nigerians have been calling on the International Criminal Court in Hague, The Netherlands to investigate and prosecute them for their crimes against humanity.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 02, 2021
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called Nigerians demanding investigation and trial of the former security chiefs as unpatriotic.
Mohammed said this on Tuesday in a Radio Nigeria programme tagged Politics Nationwide monitored by SaharaReporters.
The country was under severe attacks by Boko Haram and other terror groups when General Abayomi Olonisakin (Chief of Defence Staff), Lt. General Tukur Buratai (Chief of Army Staff), Vice-Admiral Ibok Ibas (Chief of Naval Staff) and Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff) were in office.
Nigeria-Press-Review January 29, 2021 to 09:52 2307 APA – Lagos (Nigeria) The Transparency International’s damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, ranking the country 149th on its yearly Corruption Perception Index dominates the headlines of Nigerian newspapers on Friday.
The Guardian reports that Transparency International (TI) has, again, passed a damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, ranking the country 149th on its yearly Corruption Perception Index (CPI) after it picked 25 points, the worst since 2013.
With the rating, Nigeria dropped three points from its last (2019) ranking when it sat 146th on the table. The 2020’s index was co-led by New Zealand and Denmark after they polled 88 points individually. They were followed by Finland, Switzerland and Singapore (a country that emerged from a stinky official corruption history under the late Lee
EXCLUSIVE: Int’l Criminal Court Confirms Buratai, Other Sacked Military Chiefs’ Cases With Their Prosecutor
Since Tuesday, a cross-section of Nigerians has started to demand the probe and trial of Buratai, and the other service chiefs for abuse of office.
by Saharareporters, New York
Jan 29, 2021
The International Criminal Court has said that the matter of the trial of the outgone Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai; former Chief of Defence Chief, General Abayomi Olonisakin; former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas; and former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, is with its prosecutor.
The ICC stated this on Thursday evening in a mail sent to SaharaReporters by its Spokesperson, Fadi El-Abdallah.
By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA – A civil rights group, Concerned Nigerians, on Thursday, petitioned the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court Hague, Netherlands, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, to investigate, arrest and prosecute the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (Rtd), for alleged crimes against humanity and the Nigerian people.
The group accused Buratai of complicity in the 2015 killing of over 300 Shi’ite Muslims in Zaria, hundreds of Biafran agitators, and scores of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki tollgate last October.
In the petition signed by its convener, Prince Deji Adeyanju, the group said prosecuting the retired Army Chief would serve as a deterrent to members of the Nigerian Armed Forces and their civilian collaborators who abuse citizens’ rights.