While appreciating God Almighty, on the return of the abducted
and release of some of the Dapchi School girls, the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and certain officials in
the Presidency of war crimes, reports ITRealms.
According to the National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, in a press statement made available to ITRealms said that for staging the
abduction of the schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, for political purposes, APC
leadership deserves international prosecution for war crime.
“Our Party considers this act as wicked, callous and
tormenting to use innocent schoolgirls as pawns in an ignoble script that was
designed to hoodwink Nigerians and orchestrate a great rescue and security
prowess of a conquering general, all to push a 2019 reelection bid, is an
unpardonable gamble with human lives.
“While this failed Dapchi drama remains a poorly crafted
tragicomedy: a scam of no equal dimension, Nigerians are not ready to forgive
the APC and the Presidency for the torments inflicted on the girls, their
parents and the human community worldwide just to score a cheap political point,”
he said.
Nigerians, PDP said, know that the main aim of this devilish
act was to delude the public, set the stage for an orchestrated rescue, create
a heroic myth and false sense of achievement around the APC administration and
serve as a spur for President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration to contest the
2019 presidential election, perhaps in the coming weeks.
As a political party, PDP said it wants to further state
unequivocally that by all ramifications, “this is a war crime against humanity
and gross violation of human rights on the part of the APC administration, all
in the bid to push a selfish and ill-lucked 2019 ambition.”
PDP insisted that “there is no evidence that the Boko Haram
insurgents or any militant group abducted the schoolgirls in the first place.
Rather, what is evident to all is the high level official manipulation of
security movements in Dapchi both in the staged abduction and the returning of
the traumatized schoolgirls.”
“It is instructive to note that till date, no report has
been presented by the National Security Adviser (NSA), who has been charged by
President Muhammadu Buhari with investigation of the abduction. This is in
addition to deliberate efforts by the government to suppress free flow of
information around the abduction.
“Even the regular Nigerian on the street has examined the
events leading to this abduction of our daughters as well as their release and
can deduce the obvious.
“Nigerians are all aware that both the abduction and return
of the schoolgirls were dramatically preceded by questionable withdrawal of
troops and all security apparati at checkpoints and flashpoints in the Dapchi
area.
“They are also aware that the Buhari Presidency, as the
principal command center of military operations, has refused to come out clear
on the compromising of security and why no arrest has so far been affected in
the entire saga, thus betraying a high-level of government conspiracy against
the citizens for political reasons.
“The PDP therefore calls on the United Nations (UN) and the
International Criminal Court to declare this evil by the APC Federal Government
a war crime against humanity and immediately commence investigation on the
matter. We demand the arrest and prosecution of all those involved in this
saga.
“In the same vein, we join Nigerians to demand for the
setting up of a UN monitored Truth Commission to unravel the facts around the
Dapchi event as well as the abduction of Schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State in
2014.
“While we commiserate with the families of our loved
daughters and rejoice with those whose daughters were brought home safely, we
urge Nigerians to be alert and continue to monitor the activities of the APC as
we approach the 2019 general election since it is now clear that this
government will stop at nothing in its desperate bid to perpetuate itself in
power against the will of the people,” PDP submitted.
Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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