BAMA KILLINGS: Northern elders to drag Ihejirika before World Court

Trouble is looming for Lieut-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika who was dropped on Thursday as Chief of Army Staff.



The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) threatened yesterday to drag him before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague for alleged killing of defenceless civilians in Bama, Borno State by soldiers of the Joint Task Force (JTF).

Six others will face a similar charge, the NEF said, just as the Northern Traditional Rulers Council called on the Federal Government to address cases of imbalance in the country and implement the report of the report of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of the Conflict in the North.

The Northern Elders accused Ihejirika of serially killing civilians in Bama and Giwa Barracks.

The forum,according to Prof Ango Abdulahi, its spokesman, came to this conclusion on the evidence of two committees of legal and security experts it set up to “investigate the details of the gruesome use of force against unarmed civilians in Bama and other parts of Borno State.”

He said: “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.

“The Forum has therefore resolved to harmonise the reports of the two committees, preparatory to filing a case of extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian Army under the then Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika and six others. The reports will be harmonised at our emergency meeting in Abuja on Wednesday the 22nd of January 2014 for further action”.

He did not name the six others the forum claimed participated in the alleged killings.
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