The Northern Elders Forum has
threatened to drag the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike
Ihejirika, and some other top military officers to the International Criminal
Court in The Hague for alleged extra-judicial killings.
The forum in a communique
signed by its spokesman, Professor Ango Abdullahi, after its meeting in Kaduna,
accused Lieutenant General IHEJIRIKA and six others of alleged extra-judicial
killings and strangulation of civilians by soldiers in Bama and Giwa Barracks
in Borno State, using an underground detention centre.
Professor Abdullahi said the
forum had earlier set up two investigative committees to probe the use of
soldiers against civilians in Bama and some parts of Borno State.
He said the report of the
two committees would be harmonised at the forum’s emergency meeting in Abuja on
Wednesday the twenty second of January, for further action
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