IPOB Takes Protest to Netherlands as Buhari Speaks at ICC

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have concluded arrangements to protest on Tuesday at The Hague in Netherlands as President, Muhammadu Buhari arrives the country for the 20th anniversary commemoration of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A secret memo circulated among members of the organisation in the Netherlands, which was intercepted by the media, showed that the group plans to embarrass President Buhari who arrived in the country on Monday.

It was also gathered that the protest was mainly against the president over the orgy of killings going on in the country.

The two-day protest which would hold on Tuesday and Thursday at different locations the group said would alert the International Criminal Court(ICC) of the killings going on in Nigeria, with the hope that the Nigerian president would be tried.

The memo signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Emma Powerful,  read: "This is to inform all Biafrans and IPOB members in the Netherlands that there will be a demonstration against the visit of Buhari to the Netherlands."

The memo stated further that Tuesday's protest would hold at Dutch parliarment building in the Hague at Lange poten 4, from 10a.m. to 3p.m., while Thursday's will hold at ICC in the Hague with Oude waalsdorperweg 10 as its venue and also commences at 10a.m.  to 3p.m.

The memo also stated: "We will do this, not minding that the news for Buhari's visit  to Netherlands came late. We are swinging into action to make sure this evil murderer and Boko Haram sponsor faces justice. He has no hiding place."

President  Buhari had left Nigeria for the Netherlands to participate in the 20th anniversary commemoration of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague.

A statement by Buhari's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, stated that Buhari would deliver a keynote address during the Solemn Hearing commemorating the anniversary at Courtroom 1 of the ICC’s Headquarters at The Hague.