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In the letter addressed to the Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, Falana wrote: “We are a firm of civil rights lawyers based in Lagos, Nigeria. We are the defence counsel for the majority of the members of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Nigeria who were charged with mutiny, cowardly behaviour and sundry offences before the courts-martial instituted by the former military authorities. As we shall demonstrate anon, the only “offence” proved against our clients in the military courts was that they had the temerity to demand for weapons to fight the well equipped troops of the Boko Haram sect

Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, has been tasked to implement proactive and fool proof security and community-based measures to bring an end to the on-going mass killings of indigenous people of Southern Kaduna State by suspected armed Fulani mercenary fighters or be prepared to be dragged to the International Criminal Court [ICC] in The Hague, Netherlands for alleged crimes against humanity and failing to stop genocide with his executive might.