DJ Switch addressed the office of Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s prosecutor, in a virtual event on Thursday after the announcement of a preliminary inquiry into the alleged crimes committed during the #EndSARS protests.
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This was contained in a reply signed by the Head of Information and Evidence Unit of the ICC, Mark P. Dillon
SERAP urged Bensouda to “push for those suspected to be responsible for these crimes, mostly security officials, soldiers, some politicians and other actors who directly or indirectly have individually and/or collectively contributed to the attacks, deaths and injuries, and are therefore complicit in the crimes, to be tried by the ICC.”
It would be recalled that last week SERAP launched its report titled: “From Darkness to Darkness: How Nigerians are Paying the Price for Corruption in the Electricity Sector,” alleging that “the much-publicised power sector reforms in Nigeria under the Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005 is yet to yield desired and/or anticipated fruits largely due to corruption, regulatory lapses and policy inconsistencies. The country has lost more megawatts in the post-privatisation era due largely to widespread, systemic and large-scale corruption”
The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports that the warning was contained in a statement issued by the ICC in New York, United States of America
Nigeria declared a state of emergency on May 14 to fight an Islamic uprising by militants in the northeast who want to impose Islamic law across a country divided almost equally between the predominantly Muslim north and mainly Christian south