Criticisms have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to nominate all the immediate past service chiefs as ambassadors.
The president had on Thursday nominated the former Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonisakin; former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai; former Chief of Air Staff, Ibok Ibas; and former Chief of Naval Staff, Abubakar Sadique as ambassadors.
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However, the decision has attracted criticisms from across the country with many saying it was to shield them from prosecution by the world cpourt over alleged war crimes.
Article 29 of the Vienna Convention protects diplomats from arrest and detention and grants them immunity from civil or criminal prosecution.
Buratai who lead the army for more than five years had been the most criticized with many calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try him for alleged crimes against humanity.
President Buhari’s spokesman Femi Adesina had on Thursday issued a statement announcing their nominations barely a week after they were said to have resigned.
Their confirmation as ambassadors will confer on them diplomatic immunity.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had last week asked the ICC, INTERPOL and other world bodies to institute investigations into Buratai’s tenure as army chief.
In a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party alleged that Buratai and the other former military chiefs committed crimes against humanity.
Another group which called itself the Concerned Nigerians Group said it had instituted a case against the former COAS at the ICC over what it described as human rights violations and crimes against humanity by the army during his tenure.
In a letter, the Convener, Deji Adeyanju, said the group asked the ICC to investigate, arrest and prosecute Buratai to serve as a deterrent to others.
The ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda last year said the court had received sufficient information to investigate Buratai and his colleagues for alleged war crimes in the war against the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-east.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afam Osigwe, expressed disappointment at the nomination of the former service chiefs saying the government should have waited for the outcome of their investigation before their nomination and called on the Senate to reject the nominations.
