The International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed the receipt of a petition against the activities of Amnesty International in Nigeria.
The acknowledgement was dated September 9, 2016 signed by Mr. Mark Dillon, the head of Information and Evidence in the Office of the Prosecutor, ICC.

According to Dillon, the ICC is in custody of a complaint by a civil society organization from Nigeria, the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET), requesting the prosecutor to open a criminal investigation into the activities of the international human rights organization.
In the petition submitted to the office of The Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Madame Fatou Bensouda, CESJET, through its counsel, Edward Omaga, a Nigerian lawyer, said AI, in promoting and protecting human rights, had derailed into an incendiary and partisan goal.
He said CESJET said records showed that Boko Haram had killed more than 20,000 Nigerians since 2012.
The group also said Niger Delta militants had continued to breach the peace while destroying the nation’s economic infrastructure.




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RE: ICC RECEIVES COMPLAINT AGAINST AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA


My attention has been drawn to the above publication carried on page 10 of Daily Trust of 14 September 2016. The complaint was allegedly written and filed by a civil society group in Nigeria who has been a keen watcher of activities of Amnesty International (AI) in Nigeria.
This latest twist of fate has clearly vindicated the Nigerian military that has long seen Amnesty International as having an agenda against Nigeria and its military. It is believed that AI whose goal is promoting and protecting human rights has derailed into an incendiary and partisan goal of negative agenda against a sovereign state.

Amnesty International has over the years embarked on series of allegations against the Nigerian military as far back as the inception of military’s action against terrorist in the North East. The same organisation has never for one condemned the several atrocities of mass killings of innocent citizens and destruction of infrastructures in the wake of terrorists activities in the country.
Amnesty International continued to single out the Nigerian military in its campaign to rubbish Nigeria and its Armed Forces as a non-performer and abuser of human rights while celebrating and exonerating Boko Haram terrorists and its activities. Clearly so, I want to urge the ICC to beam its searchlights on the leadership of AI with a view to stopping it from pursuing negative agenda not only against the Nigerian state but globally.

The Nigerian Armed Forces has a record of high discipline and performance while conducting peacekeeping and peace-enforcement operations as exemplified in Liberia and Sierra-Leone respectively. We as citizens owe it as a duty to voice our support for the image of the military which is the only bastion of hope for the survival of this country. We urge Amnesty International to take all necessary steps to restore the glory and credibility of the organisation before the eyes of Nigerians.