- Target:
- Fatou Bensouda, International Criminal Court The ICC Headquarters, Maanweg, 174 2516 AB, The Hague
- Region:
- Nigeria
- Website:
- intersociety-ng.org
Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s Genocidal Incitement:
On 6th April 2015, the Oba of Lagos, Retired Assistant Inspector General of Police Rilwan Akiolu, made the following genocidal speech against over 6 million Igbo natives in Lagos State of Nigeria:
”On Saturday, if anyone of you (Igbo resident) goes against Akinwunmi Ambode, who I picked, that is your end. If it does not happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and it is not my father who gave birth to me. By the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future. On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, Allah goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos State, the person is going to die inside this water (Lagoon). For the Igbo and others in Lagos, they should go where the Oba of Lagos heads to. When they were coming to the State, they did not come with all their houses. But now, they have properties in the State. So they must do my bidding. And that is the bidding of the ancestors of Lagos and God. I am not ready to beg you. Nobody knew how I picked Ambode. Jimi (Agbaje) is my blood relation and I told him that he could never be governor in Lagos for now. The future belongs to God. I am not begging anybody, but what you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere you cannot do it here. If you vote against my candidate Ambode, Lagos will be hostile to you”.
We the undersigned, call on The International Criminal Court ICC, to prosecute Oba Rilwan Akiolu, Oba of Lagos-Nigeria, for his inflammatory Genocidal statements which constitute an Incitement of violence against Igbos. In the 1953 anti Igbo Kano riot, thousands of Igbo natives were massacred. In 1966 anti Igbo pogrom in the North, the tribe lost up to 30,000 natives. In 1967-1970 civil war, over 2 million of its natives including men, women and children died from fighting and forced famine. Others are 1981 anti Igbo riots in Kano and Kaduna; the October 1991 anti Igbo killings and the 1995 Gideon Akaluka’s beheading/Igbo massacre in Kano; the Kano and Kaduna anti Igbo riots of 2000/2001; the Abuja and Jos riots of 2001; the 2002 Miss World riot; the 2008 and 2010 Jos riots; the 2009 Boko Haram uprising in the North; and the 2011 post election violence in the North. In these butcheries, tens of thousands of Igbo natives were targeted and slaughtered. As a matter of recent fact, out of at least 13,500 innocent citizens massacred by the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria between 2009 and 2014 (President Goodluck Jonathan, New York, USA, September 2014), at least 5,000 were Igbo natives living in the North.
The ICC Prosecute Oba Akiolu for inciting Genocide against Igbos petition to Fatou Bensouda, International Criminal Court The ICC Headquarters, Maanweg, 174 2516 AB, The Hague was written by My Roots Foundation and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.