NEF, Others Want To Drag Jonathan, FG To International Court

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and Solomon Dalung Foundation intend to file a lawsuit against President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government to the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague for various forms of human rights abuses and extra-judicial killings.

The decision to address the ICC was also supported by some other human rights groups. They want Jonathan and other security chiefs to be charged for unlawful killings by soldiers and torturing of civilians in army barracks, operating a network of underground detention centres in the troubled Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

* Solomon Dalung. Photo credit - Solomon Dalung Foundation Facebook Page
The lawyer and the initiator of the foundation carrying his name, Solomon Dalung, revealed on May 7, 2014, Wednesday, in Yola, Adamawa State that both the NEF and Dalung Foundation have received reports of extra-judicial killings by soldiers in parts of the three north-eastern states which are under emergency rule since May 2013.
He mentioned that the gruesome use of force against unarmed civilians in the affected states cannot be tolerated.

“We therefore resolved to harmonise the reports of the committees, preparatory to filing a case of extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian Army,” he concluded.

Dalung also urged the affected communities and families to provide more details and information, including photo proof, to the office of the foundation in Yola.
It would be added that decision came on the next day after a reported meeting in Abuja between the president and some of the Northern leaders, including Borno elders and two other groups. The parties have allegedly discussed the ways to find a solution over missing GGSS Chibok girls.