Army/Shiite clash: ‘ICC may intervene if...’

By Abbas Jimoh | Publish Date: Dec 19 2015 1:22AM | Updated Date: Dec 19 2015 1:31AM

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n Shiite members demand for the release of their leader, Malam Ibraheem Zakzaky, in front of Fagge Mosque in Kano yesterday. PhotoSani Maikatanga

The organisation called Access to Justice has blamed the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Y. Buratai, over last Saturday’s crises between the Army and the Shiite Muslim sect, in Zaria, Kaduna State, which claimed scores of lives. Director of the organization Joseph Otteh and the programme Attorney Ifeanyi Odom, told reporters yesterday in Abuja that the International Criminal Court (ICC) of Justice may wade in if the Federal Government was seen not to have done justice in the crisis.
 Otteh who flayed the response of the Army towards the Shi’ite protesters, said the action of the Army constitute a war crime, a crime against humanity and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a high-powered independent commission of inquiry to unravel the remote and immediate causes of the incident.
He however said their stand on the crisis does not mean that they support the blockade of a highway or violent protest by the Shiite sect, and insisted that the Army lacked constitutional mandate to disperse protests or procession of any kind let alone violently.

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