Okuama: Sowore Slams Tinubu Over Order To Defence Headquarters, CDS

By Daniel Dafe

Pro-democracy activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the 2023 general elections, Omoyele Sowore has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s order to the Defence Headquarters and Chief of Defence Staff to bring the killers of soldiers on a peace mission in Okuama, a community in Delta State.

Sowore said this in a statement on Monday.

According to him, “Tinubu is confused,” just as he condemned the excessive use of military force, saying the Defence Headquarters has no business bringing the killers of Nigerian soldiers in Okuama to “justice.”

Adding: “It is the job of the police to investigate, arrest, and prosecute with the aid of the attorney general and commissioner of justice in Delta state (or possibly the Attorney general of the federation and Minister of Justice).”

He said: “Tinubu’s endorsement is essentially a cart blanche to kill innocent civilians in that area of Nigeria just like Obasanjo did in Odi and Zaki Biam, let the “Defence Headquarters” know that individual officers carrying out these unlawful orders are going to be held liable per “Nuremberg principles.”

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He continued: “In case you don’t know, you can’t go and commit genocide in Delta state and state that “Tinubu sent me” know this and know peace – even after you are retired, ask General Malu of the @HQNigerianArmy how it ended.”