The haste, desperation and panics behind the announcement by the Government of Nigeria of the nomination of the immediate past Service Chi...
The haste, desperation and panics behind the announcement by
the Government of Nigeria of the nomination of the immediate past Service
Chiefs-particularly the immediate past Army Chief, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai as
‘non-career ambassadors’, are a clear indication that ‘the heats are on the
horrendous crimes perpetrators and their patrons and their houses are on fire.
It shows also that ‘Marabas’, ‘Pastors’ and ‘Talismans’ possibly hired by them for
physical and spiritual fortification and protection have exhaustively lost the
battle’. The pro bloodshed activists or “killer-Army human rights contractors”
have also not slept with their eyes closed. The latest move by the Nigerian
Government is not only suicidal and amount to inching the perpetrators closer
to int’l iron bars of prison but also a clear indication that the spirits of
thousands of the massacred and the disappeared are at work and very
revengefully active.
It is a truism and popularly settled position that atrocity
crimes such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide and their
sub-heads are better not perpetrated while in office than trying to cover them
while out of office. Also atrocity crimes when perpetrated, investigated,
published and archived automatically go with at least five damnable
consequences on the personalities and characters of their perpetrators; namely:
(1) image damage and ruination-reducing a perpetrator or perpetrators to the
status of “walking corpse(s)”; (2) international pariah or baggage status, (3)
victims or recipients of life jail, (4) spiritual damnation and restlessness
and (5) ostracism in the land of their benevolent ancestors and perfect
spirits.
It must hereby be made boldly clear that whether in the
‘fourth countries” and battered republics or anywhere in the world, there are
no immunity, peace and hiding place for perpetrators of crimes against
humanity, war crimes and crimes of genocide. The Int’l Criminal Laws including
the Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions have no provisions for ‘diplomatic’
and ‘state office’ immunities for those accused of or involved in the
perpetration of the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity-all of which were perpetrated in ‘industrial scale’ by the named key
retired and serving military and police officers in Nigeria or any part
thereof. Crimes of such gravity are also
not bound or ousted by time. This is more so when the “ambassadorial nominees”
will not die in office as ‘ambassadors of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria’.
Further, the ‘non- career and neophyte ambassadorial
nominees’ and their nominators are tactless, panicky and suicidal in their
calculations and decisions. This is because instead of ‘bringing them closer to
international bars of prison’ by seeking to make them ‘non-career ambassadors’,
they would have been better “protected” or “shielded” momentarily if a minor
federal cabinet reshuffle was made to make them Ministers of Defense, Interior
and National Security Adviser, but the gods and the spirits of the massacred
and the disappeared are actively at work. Intersociety also wishes to point out
that among the four ex Service Chiefs; there is no documented evidence at its
disposal linking the former Chief of Naval Staff (Ibas) to the perpetrated
atrocity crimes, but the trios of immediate past COAS, CAS and CDS have serious
cases to answer.
Finally, we see the Nigerian Government’s latest move as ‘a
victory’ for the apostles of justice. Deciding to retain the atrocity crimes
perpetrators as ‘non-career ambassadors’ with available spaces and diplomatic
titles for them likely going to be ‘Nigerian envoys to the battered or failed
republics’ or ‘the fourth world countries’ is keeping them at no hiding place
with diplomatic tags-thereby making it difficult for them to go out of the
prime eyes and advocacy searchlights of the lords and the apostles of justice.
It would have been difficult to locate them if they are allowed to
clandestinely relocate to their Afghanistan or Somali or Yemeni cave castles.
It is therefore our firm promise that wherever the named perpetrators and
others go or posted, we and other int’l justice apostles, through our golden
pens, intellects and databases, shall avail the authorities of their host territories
the catalogues of their atrocity crimes back home in Nigeria.
Signed:
For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., and Ndidiamaka
Bernard, Esq., (Principal Officers)
Contacts: Phone: +2348174090052, Email:
info@intersociety-ng.org, Site: intersociety-ng.org
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