…calls for disbandment of presidential c’ttee

BY INNOCENT ANABA

ABUJA-The Nigeria Coalition for the International Criminal Court, NCICC, has called on the Federal Government to prosecute all those responsible for the post election violence in some northern states, including politicians, who incited and armed the rioters.

The group also called for the disband of the recently constituted Presidential Committee on 2011 election violence and civil disturbances.

NCICC in a statement by its chairman, Chino Obiagwu and convener, Jibo Ibrahim, noted that over 300 persons were killed in three states and more than 600 across the country in the violence that followed the April 2011 elections.

According to the group, “the setting up of the Presidential Committee is a sham designed to divert attention of the world to the prosecution of the perpetrators, and compensation of victims and families of those killed. This has been the practice in the past, including the Jos crises, where government set up panels or commissions of inquiry and at the end of the day, the reports were never made public.

 The inability of the government to indict and prosecute perpetrators was responsible for the cycle of impunity that has become a recurrent decimal in the country.”