How would the International Criminal Court (ICC) make a bizarre statement about the efforts made by our military forces to tackle criminal offences happening in our beloved country?
In most cases, it has been perceived that when Nigerian troops diligently struggle to fight against insurgency and other criminal acts that violate human rights, the ICC on the other hand is making contrary statements debunking and ruining the reputation of our hardworking security forces through instigating lies and baseless allegations to discredit the performance of Nigerian troops.
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Nigeria is a country of about 200 million people out of which almost 100 million citizens are either Christians or Muslims. This is what makes Nigerians to treat criminals by applying several punishments on those convicted according to religious provision.
The ICC, being the international criminal court, does not recognise religious penalties. The court solely depends in its own interest and ill-grounded perception about what really occurs in Nigeria. It always claims to protect their so-called fundamental human rights, whereas in reality it destroys this human rights it always blabbers about.
In a nutshell, I would like to call the attention of the federal government to set-up a monitoring committee which will be officially assigned with the task of checking the ICC’s reactions on our security forces who are out there fighting against all those terrorising and violating the human rights of other Nigerians. If we are not careful the ICC would destabilise the peace of all Nigerians, especially in those areas engrossed by crimes.
Also, the committee should ensure that ICC makes positive recommendation when our soldiers’ performance is worth praising and if they go wrong the ICC should in a polite manner express their grief, that is to say in a way that would not make Nigerians feel humiliated.
Failure to do this, would not augur well for our soldiers and our country..
Josephine Adiptsawa wrote from the Department of Mass Communication University of Maiduguri
