By Baron Ike
It emerged at the weekend that President Muhammadu Buhari who left the country on Monday to attend a meeting at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, The Netherlands may as well be responding to petitions allegedly written to the body by concerned Nigerians in respect of insecurity.
President Buhari is expected, among other things, address the ICC on more than 100 petitions allegedly written against him on herdsmen and ethnic-based killings, according to sources.
Both Christian leaders and other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria had at one time or the other complained of the killing of their members with some threatening to draw the attention of the international community to it.
Most of the petitions had dwelt on alleged religious and ethnic cleansing by Fulani herdsmen.
President Donald Trump of the United States had during his meeting with Buhari recently warned against killing of Christians and other ethnically-motivated killings in the north, particularly, the middle belt axis.
It was learnt that the presence of Simon Lalong of Plateau State, who accompanied the president is to help deny the killings in Plateau State as ethnic cleansing by herdsmen.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State will corroborate Lalong as it concerns the South West while the Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffery Onyema will be game for the South East.
Lalong, it was learnt, will speak as the governor of one of the affected states.
He will be letting the ICC to believe that the killings in Plateau State and the Middle Belt is not genocide and has nothing to do with ethnic cleansing by herdsmen.