Yoruba Nation: Sunday Igboho, Akintoye, Others Petition Buhari, Malami Others To ICC

The battle for the independence of Yoruba Nation is one project the agitators are not ready back down anytime soon.

Recently, officers of State Security Service the men of SSS took responsibility of the attack on Igboho’s country home, killing two persons and arresting others.

In defiance to what might be the reason for the attack, the scheduled rally in Lagos still held, with a girl of 14 years paying the ultimate price with her life. She was reportedly cut down by bullet suspected to have come from the police.

After they had been declared wanted by the State Security Service, and rather than be cowed by his manhunt, the Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye; Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and other 49 Yoruba Self-Determination groups have filed a 27-page petition against President Muhammadu Buhari before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Several leaders of Yoruba Self-Determination groups signed the petition.

According to reports, the petition accused some Nigerian leaders of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Yoruba People of Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Okun Land in Kogi, and Kwara States respectively.

Those dragged before the ICC are President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami; former Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai and former Inspectors General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Muhammed Adamu.

Others petitioned are Comptroller General of Customs, Hammid Alli; Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba; Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya; former Chief of Air Force, Sadiq Abubakar; former Commandant-General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Services, Mohammed Babandede and the Current Commandant-General of NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu.

The 27-page petition accused Buhari, Malami, Buratai and others of genocide offences such as killing members of the petitioner’s group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part.

The ICC has formally acknowledged receipt of the petition.