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| Femi Falana (SAN) |
Human Rights Activist, Mr.
Femi Falana (SAN) had been tipped to lead the people of the North Central
geographical zone to the Ecowas Court over acts of genocide and menaces of the
Fulani herdsmen in the domain which have become incessant and terrible in the
recent times.
According to report, the
learned senior advocate of Nigeria would, all things being equal, proceed on
Monday, 25th of April, to file a case of genocide and other acts indicative of
inhumanity to man at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague and the
ECOWAS Court, against Fulani herdsmen stating that the impunity has gotten to
alarming stage.
Falana who spoke when he
received the leaders of the Jukun Development Association of Nigeria who had
come to submit to him in his office, a 1000 page document detailing the
targeted cleansing of their people by the rampaging herdsmen lambasted the
federal government for watching a group of people arming themselves with deadly
weapons against innocent citizens.
“It is very clear by the
pictorial and other evidence contained in this evidence that the people of the
North Central Nigeria are going through terrible things daily in the hands of
these herdsmen. Lives and properties are no longer safe from these people who
killed and maim, and rape women at will just because they wanted their cattles
to graze on other people’s farmlands”, Falana said.
The National President of
the Jukun Development Association of Nigeria Mr Benjamin Bako said the group
had approached the human rights activist for his timely intervention before it
is too late adding that the group opted to package the detailed document to
show clearly monumental atrocities and losses encountered through the
intimidations of the herdsmen.
“Jukun Development have officially
compiled a 1000 paged document containing details of Fulani herdsmen
atrocities, including names of all the individuals killed and properties
destroyed by the herdsmen in the last four years in Jukunland to human rights
lawyer Chief Femi Falana (SAN), whonhad been briefed to formally file a case of
genocide on behalf of the association”, he said.
After receiving
the documents, Falana called on the Federal Government to take urgent and
drastic action against the massacre being perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen
against innocent farmers before they throw the nation into another avoidable
war adding that the unprecedented massacre of unarmed farmers by these herdsmen
in Jukunland in Taraba State and the other parts of North Central Nigeria
everyday, is condemnable and evil.
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