Dutch Lawyer Drags Buhari To International Criminal Court

Dutch lawyer accused President Muhammadu Buhari

of committing crimes against humanity.

– The lawyer filed a complaint with the

International Criminal Court in The Hague.

– The IPOB branch in the Netherlands stated that

Nnamdi Kanu should be released, while Buhari has to

be prosecuted.

Dutch lawyer has filed a complaint against

President

Muhammadu Buhari at The Hague, accusing him of

committing crimes against humanity, including murder

and torture.

Newsweek reports that Goran Sluiter, a lawyer at

Dutch human rights legal firm Prakken d’Oliveira,

filed the complaint with the International Criminal

Court (ICC) in The Hague on Friday, January 29.

Speaking with journalists, Sluiter said that there has

been “an intensification of violence and crimes

committed against Biafrans since Mr Buhari became

the Nigerian president.”

“Nigeria is already a long time on the agenda of the

[ICC] prosecutor and Nigerian courts are not dealing

at all with these crimes. The time really has come

for the ICC to act.”

There have been numerous reports of pro-Biafra

protesters being killed in clashes with Nigerian

security forces during demonstrations.

In December 2015, Solomon Arase, the inspector

general of police, warned agitators to stop their

activities , otherwise, they would face “the full

weight of the law.”

The complaint was filed on behalf of 17 unnamed

victims and alleges to set out evidence of crimes

against humanity committed by security forces

against pro-Biafran protesters.

Ndubuisi Osuala, the coordinator of the Indigenous

People of Biafra (IPOB) branch in the Netherlands,

stressed that Nnamdi Kanu should be released, while

President Buhari has to be prosecuted.

“What every IPOB member, every Biafran citizen

wants is the release of our great leader, Nnamdi

Kanu, who is a freedom fighter.

“Secondly, we need the International Criminal Court

to bring justice and equity to our case…[President

Buhari] has to be prosecuted and face the justice for

what he did,” he said.

Calling for independence for Biafra, Osuala noted

that his group seeking it by peaceful means.

“We need to get freedom by peace and that is why

we are protesting. We are not terrorists, we are not

killing people,” he stressed.

When contacted, Femi Adesina, the president’s

special adviser on media and publicity, declined to

comment on the ICC case. He said that while Kanu’s

case was ongoing, the presidency would rather not

comment on the matter.

On Thursday, January 28, members of th IPOB

stormed Brussels , the capital of Belgium (the

headquarters of the European Union parliament) to

protest the illegal detention of their leader and

director of radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The protesters were demanding the unconditional

release of Kanu and freedom for Biafra as an

independent state.