The Good Governance Advocacy Project, a civil society organisation, has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former President Olusegun Obasanjo for alleged involvement in war crimes between 1999 and 2007.
The group also demanded that Theophilus Danjuma, former minister of defence, should be made to answer questions over crimes against humanity and offences bordering on war crimes in Odi area of Bayelsa and Zaki Biam, Benue state.
Addressing reporters on Tuesday, Danelson Momoh, national president of the group, said it was under Dajnuma as defence minister that troops “massacred” innocent citizens.
“The project is concerned with recent trends where persons that has acted below par when they were in public office interfere with the running of government in ways that would not only jeopardize good governance but could trigger widespread ethno-religious hostilities as they pitch one group in the country against the other,” he said.
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“Instead of being elder statesmen as would be expected of them in their twilight they have resorted to heating up the polity and making demands of the current dispensation that they were never able to fulfil in their own times.
“Of note among these yesteryears’ men is former military chief, retired General Theophilus Yakubu (TY) Danjuma who of late has become synonymous with being an inciter of adherents of Christianity in the country to go to war with their neighbours under the guise of ethno-religious killings.
“We categorically state this because historically, it was during Dajuma’s regime as Defence Minister under the then President Olusegun Obasanjo that troops massacred innocent citizens of Zaki Biam communitye. Much as the history of what happened in Zak Ibiam is being re-written to obscure the actual drivers of that pogrom, Ty Danjuma knows that the genocide that took place there was never about national security.”
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