Nigeria: Post Election Violence - Huriwa Threatens to Drag Jonathan to ICC

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28 April 2011

Nigeria: Post Election Violence - Huriwa Threatens to Drag Jonathan to ICC

President Goodluck Jonathan was Wednesday given a 21-day ultimatum by the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) to bring perpetrators of the post-election violence in some parts of the country to book or risk being dragged to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague, the Netherlands.

Addressing newsmen in Enugu shortly after monitoring the Governorship/State Assembly election in Enugu State, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko also advocated for the immediate conversion of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme to one year compulsory military service as it's practiced in some countries of the world.

Onwubiko expressed dismay over the incessant violence that culminated in the destruction of lives and property especially in the northern parts of the country, saying that the situation had continued unabated apparently because government was yet to demonstrate enough political will to checkmate it.