Tashikalmah Hallah, Nasidi A. Yahaya and Aisha Umar
27 October 2009
Abuja — The House of Representatives yesterday voted against a motion that sought to stop Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir from entering Nigeria due to the warrant of arrest placed on him by the International Criminal Court at The Hague last March. Al-Bashir is wanted for alleged crime against humanity.
President Al-Bashir was earlier billed to attend a meeting of the African Union's Peace and Security Council on Darfur in Abuja on Thursday. However, the spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mr. Ayo Olukanni confirmed that the Sudanese President al-Bashir would not attend the meeting. In an interview with Daily Trust, he said the country's Vice President, Ali Osman Taha will represent his embattled president.
About 15 heads of African states are expected to meet in Abuja to examine the report on the Darfur written by a high-level AU panel chaired by South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki.
Moving the motion on Al-Bashir, Rep Halims Agoda, said "this is a very serious issue, and I seek the House to regard this as a matter of urgent public importance. Nigeria is a signatory of the treaty of the United Nations which formed the ICC", and we cannot be seen to work against the very convention we signed by allowing such a man to put his foot on our soil, if we would not affect the international warrant of arrest on him".
The Deputy Speaker, Bayero Nafada, who was the presiding officer at yesterday's plenary, asked if the motion should be postponed till today, but eventually asked him to continue with the motion.
When the motion was subjected to a voice count on whether it should be debated or not, those who opposed it were in the majority.
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I am in favour of Mbeki's idea that our people who slapped our faces be punished for such violations by ourselves in our homes and not by a certain expert like the ICC. with the Picture of the Sudanese three mothers on this page, one is left with no choice than to advocate that the most horrible available punishment be meted out for the people who wrecked the system. i am also in favour of types of punishement provided it must not be carried out by the capitalists owned ICC. Let our agitation be on the type of punishment we would like to see and not that it must be done by the bias ICC. United State of America is a proponent of arresting african leaders and will continue to champion the course of whom will be arrested or not across the globe as if the world is theirs? but they insist on their citizens not being tried on any foreign land and have blatantly refused to ratify the Rome statute? May be for the ICC to include everybody on the punishment agenda Hague would have to be uprooted from Netherlands to the Washington so that everybody receives fair amount of the ICC's glorious service. Liberian Charles Taylors trial implicated US on different fronts but ICC is not working on those details provided by Taylor in his defence. why?
In his piece entitled “ White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys,”
investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasn’t George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
hope. It was the Spanish courts that returned indictments against Rwandan
soldiers for genocide even as the world coddles U.S. proxy Rwanda and its
leader, Paul Kagame.
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OBAMA DECEPTIONS
#1
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpRocaEfQE]
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[http://www.infowars.com/?p=7259]
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#3
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE…. OOOPs!!! She said.
(Here’s a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
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[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]
Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.
We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?
Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.
Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.
There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.
We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.
We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.
It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.
And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.
And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others
- Marianne Williamson -
[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]
(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )
God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .
God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.
From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.
[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]
WAKE UP !!! STAY UP !!!
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