Nigeria Coalition on International Criminal Court (NCICC) has given the Federal Government 14 days within which to either extradite former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court in Sierra Leone, or start a legal action against him.
Enjoying your retirement, Chuck?
The group said failure on the part of government to heed the directive would leave the coalition with no option but to launch a national and global campaign to bring Taylor to Justice. Addressing newsmen in Lagos yesterday, the secretary of the coalition, Mr. Ameen Ayodele, said the coalition would at the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum " embark on joint programme of popular mobilisation, rallies and processions begining from Calabar to make Nigeria hot and unsafe for Taylor".
Sounds like fun.
The group said it noted the indictment of Taylor by the United Nations Special Court in Sierra Leone and warrant of arrest issued to that effect, even as it was mindful of the questionable role of the United States in the whole saga, which it described as a double standard, considering that the Chief prosecutor to the court was an American. Ayodele regretted that the United States had continued to undermine the International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution charged with the role of entrenching international justice. The group acknowledged that the US was presently seeking Bilateral Immunity Agreement (BIA) from countries to immune its own citizens from the jurisdiction of the international court.
Is Chuck a U.S. citizen? No? So shut up about the ICC already. |