The National Committee of Yoruba Youth, the South East Professionals in Diaspora and the Coalition of Civil Society Groups against Terrorism in Nigeria has berated a United States constitutional lawyer, Bruce Fein, over his calls that the United Nations should refer President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, to the International Criminal Court for investigation in the ongoing military operation against the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in the South East.
In an article published in HuffPost on Sunday and other various insidious videos, the US lawyer accused the military of carrying out a genocide against the Igbo people.
Fein also made an unfounded and highly preposterous allegations of persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
The groups, at a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday, described Fein’s call as an attempt to blackmail President Buhari and prevent the Nigerian Army from carrying out their constitutionally guaranteed responsibility of protecting Nigeria and Nigerians against any form of internal and external aggression, many of which Nigerians have been subjected to as a result of the terrorist activities of the IPOB.
Speaking on behalf of the groups, Comrade Oladimeji Odeyemi wondered “why Mr. Fein and some foreign collaborators like the Amnesty International, who have clearly shown bias towards the Nigerian Nation, most especially the Nigerian Army, should been seen as encouraging the secessionist agitations of the IPOB.
“They have even pretended not to understand the basic responsibilities of President Buhari and Nigerian Army towards defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria as a sovereign nation that we are.
“We believe every society would do what it needs to do to prevent individuals or a small group of people from creating scenarios that would endanger the rights of the majority. If government finds it necessary to declare a group actively seeking and practicing violence and terrorism while threatening the existence of the country a ‘Terrorist Group’ and proscribe its activities, it is ingenious for some characters and their foreign collaborators to see a way to armtwist the government with legalese not to act when the security of the Country is what is at stake.”