By Bose Olamide
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to commence the investigation of the tenure of former service chiefs over alleged reported atrocities and crimes against humanity committed by security operatives under their command.
The PDP also called on the INTERPOL and other world bodies to commence processes that will lead to the prosecution as well as firm sanctions, including travel ban and freezing of assets belonging to all those allegedly involved in killings and human right abuses by security operatives under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
The PDP made the call in a statement on Wednesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
With the exit of the service chiefs from office, the PDP charged ICC’s Chief Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, to issue official warrant in line with the court’s earlier declaration that it has enough evidence to open a full probe on alleged crimes against humanity under the outgoing commanders.
“The PDP urges the ICC to probe the cases of extra-judicial execution of innocent Nigerians, massacre of peaceful protesters, illegal arrests and arbitrary detention of citizens in dehumanizing cells, torture and rape allegedly committed by the military under the outgoing commanders, as detailed in the reports of credible international bodies including the United States Department of State, Amnesty International (AI) and Transparency International (TI)” the statement read in part.
