Jos, 16 June, 2023 / 9:25 pm (ACI Africa).
International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has joined the Coalition of Nigerians living in the United Kingdom to urge relevant leaders in Nigeria, including the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), “to go after” the immediate former governor of Kaduna State over the bigotry remarks he made on June 6 that have since gone viral.
In the just under 6-minute video that has been translated and transcribed, former governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai sought to justify the securing of Muslim dominance in key political sectors in Kaduna State over the years, including the adoption of Muslim-Muslim tickets for governor and president.
In a Monday, June 12 report, Intersociety, a research and investigative rights group, which has been monitoring and investigating religious persecution and other forms of religious violence by State and non-State actors across Nigeria since 2010, enlist other entities, national and international, that need to sue the former Nigerian governor.
“Intersociety hereby joins the Coalition of Nigerians living in the United Kingdom in calling on the leaders of the Southern Kaduna, the Middle-Belt and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to go after Mallam el-Rufai by ensuring that he does not go scot-free or walk the streets of Nigeria and west Democracies freely as an outlaw,” the human rights group that does research and investigation by direct contacts with the victims and eyewitnesses says.
The authors of the report further say, “The UK Government as a State-Party to the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998 and domestication of same which also produces the current Chief Prosecutor of the Court should ensure that the likes of El-Rufai, Buhari, Buratai, Musa Daura, Arase, Alkali Baba and the rest of the served and the serving senior security officers in the country from the ranks of military Lieutenant Colonels and Police CSPs since August 2015 are blocked from setting their feet on UK soil or arrested and charged for crimes against humanity and genocide or incitement to same.”