Kaduna gov dragged to ICC over genocide

A group, Southern Kaduna Indigenes Progressive
Forum (SKIPFo) yesterday said it has compiled
enough documentary and other relevant
information enough to drag Governor Mukhtar
Ramalan Yero to the Internal Criminal Court (ICC) in
the Hague for what it said was genocide against
the Atakad people of Kaura Local Government
Area in the southgern part of Kaduna State.
A Press Statement signed by the Chairman of the
registered group, Major George Asake (rtd) said
that its lawyers were working in concert with other
experts to file genocide charges against Yero, and
possibly seek his extradition to stand prosecution
even after he would have left office.
SKIPFo which gave a detail tabulated sequence of
the invasions of Atakad communities and other
parts of Southern Kaduna since 2011 said about
160 people have lost their lives, 202 wounded and
over 1000 houses set ablaze.
Reads part of the Statement made available to
Saturday Vanguard: “On the 15th February, 2012,
Rev Joseph Hayab, Special Assistant to the
Governor on Christian Affairs, and Mallam Halliru
Maraya, Special Assistant to the Governor on
Muslims Affairs and Ishaku Dogo Makama,
Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management
Agency (SEMA) Kaduna State said at a Press
Conference that after pocketing not less than
N564 billion in cash, apart from food stuff and
other relief materials, Internally Displaced Persons
(all Hausa/Fulani Muslims from Zonkwa) from the
last April 2011 polls violence, had refused to leave
the Hajj Camp, in Kawo, Kaduna. That was when
Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa was in power
·”While the aforementioned enjoyed so much
largesse from Yakowa, Yero on his part is not
known to have offered a kobo to the much
publicised 10,000 Takad refugees.
“Governor Yero knows well that the Takad are
now under starvation since the Fulani made it
impossible for them to return and cultivate their
farm. Most of them are sick, traumatized without
any form of assistance even as more violence is
being visited on them on a daily basis under the
watch of Yero.
“There is no further prove to show how he hates
Southern Kaduna People and encourages the
systematic genocide of the Takad by starvation and
violence
“Encouraged, by the feeble security in place, a
band of ravaging Fulani militants invaded Takad
villages again last Monday, and wiped out all the
inhabitants before razing the villages into ashes.”