Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Dragged to ICC by Nigerian Activist (See Why)

The embattled and imprisoned leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been
dragged to the International Criminal Court
(ICC) over the mass graves allegedly
discovered by security operatives in Abia
state.
In a criminal complaint filed by a civil rights
activist, Albert Ella, Kanu and the IPOB were
accused of committing heinous crimes
against Nigerians.
The Department of

State Services had in a
statement accused members of IPOB of
killing and burying over fifty people in a
shallow grave in Isuikwuato local government
area of Abia state.
The DSS also claimed that five out of the
bodies exhumed from the grave were
identified as Hausa-Fulani’s killed by IPOB
members.
To this, Ella through his lawyer, Edward
Omaga of the Graylaw Solicitors said
records show that the fifty unidentified
persons, whose dead bodies the DSS had
exhumed but hidden for security reasons,
were murdered by IPOB with the use of
chemicals and other dangerous instruments
against the Rome statute.
Ella’s complaint which was dated April 13,
and filed on April 19 at the ICC has also
been acknowledged by Leigh Swigart, a
senior trial attorney in the office of the
prosecutor of the international court.
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Ella in his claims said the unidentified
victims were also suspected to be Hausa-
Fulani people who are entitled to right to life
as guaranteed under Chapter IV of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, African Charter on Human and
Peoples Rights and other international
human rights instruments.
He said the victims deserve justice from the
ICC urgently.
Also Omaga said Ella’s complaint seeks to
expose the divisive and gruesome activities
of IPOB in recent times.
It also urged the ICC to open investigation
and prosecute Kanu and other members of
the IPOB who claimed to be freedom
fighters following the unwillingness of
Nigerian courts to try them.
Also, Wolfgang Bendler, a German based
legal practitioner on the list of counsels at
the ICC has been appointed to work full time
on this case as international head of the
legal team to be assisted by Mr. Omaga.
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“We commiserate with families of those who
lost their lives in the hands of IPOB and
assure all well-meaning Nigerians that justice
devoid of political undertone is tenable.
“The end will soon come for all the purveyors
of evil and iniquity in this country. We are not
asking those who had associated with IPOB in
the hope of using intellect and due process to
pursue self-determination to forget their quest.
“However, it is now apparent that IPOB is no
longer the vehicle for the actualization of the
“Republic of Biafra” as vigorously sought by
forefathers of the Igbo people.
“We look forward to obtaining justice for the
sake of humanity at The Hague where it is
settled that the most serious crimes of
concern to the international community as a
whole must not go unpunished,” Omaga said.