Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, to investigate the problem of 13.2 million children out of school across the country.
In a petition, SERAP asked the ICC to investigate “whether the problem of out-of-school children in Nigeria, and the failure of the authorities over the years to address it amount to violence against children and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.”
In the petition dated July 19, 2019 and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation urged Bensouda to: “push for those suspected to be responsible for this problem, including current and former presidents and state governors since 1999, who directly or indirectly have individually and/or collectively breached their special duty toward children, and are therefore complicit in the crime, to be tried by the ICC.
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