Group (NDMG) has reacted to the emerging report that Fein & DelValle
PLLC, an American law firm is gathering evidence to charge President
Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur
Yusuf Buratai before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for
proscribing the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The group asked the firm to channel its energy to investigate former
United States president, George Bush and Barack Obama and leave
Nigeria alone.
Pasca Ogwola, Coordinator, USA/Canada, NDMG said it was disheartening
that some people were unhappy over the proscription of IPOB and its
activities.
Ogwola said the lawyer was exploring how to make money out of the
defunct Biafra republic.
His statement reads in full:
The United States Chapter of the Nigerians in Diaspora Monitoring
Group (NDMG) has learnt with disappointment that some Nigerians are
being misled by news that Fein & DelValle PLLC, an American law firm,
is gathering evidence to charge President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief
of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai before the
International Criminal Court (ICC) for successfully containing the
terrorist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB).
The claims made by one of the lawyers for the firm, Bruce E. Fein, are
ordinarily laughable but for the fact that they have all the makings
of a scheme meant to con the unwary ones among our brothers of Igbo
extraction out of their hard earned money while setting up our younger
ones up for life threatening confrontations with law enforcement
agencies. The lawyer is exploring how to make money out of the defunct
Biafra republic and has no cares in world how this affect the local
population who he has apparently dismissed as collateral damage in his
quest to get rich.
Fein apparently lied to the inconspicuous audience he addressed at
Chicago State University, USA earlier this month by creating the
impression that there is a case against the Nigerian government and
military before the ICC. It was a classical American Lawyer trick to
con money out of unsuspecting people and this was adequately exposed
when he said "litigation moves slowly. Patience, unity, and FINANCIAL
support are indispensable to success."
Fein's fund raising strategy is worryingly similar to the one adopted
by the leader of the terrorist group, Nnamdi Kanu, who solicited for
funds to buy weapons at the 2015 World Igbo Congress in the United
States. In both instances, diasporas of Igbo extraction were targeted
to part with their money for private causes packaged to appear like
geo-ethnic interests.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Monitoring Group (NDMG) condemns Bruce E.
Fein and Fein & DelValle PLLC in very strong terms for this attempt to
promote disaffection in Nigeria while scheming to defraud diaspora
citizens. We advise anyone that has given money to Fein to immediately
approach the United States Financial Fraud Enforcement Taskforce to
report that they have been scammed.
We urge Bruce E. Fein to seek professional help to manage what ails
him so that he can stop putting others at risk with his warped
thinking. Where he insists he does not need professional intervention,
we advise him to focus his efforts at helping victims that abound in
the US where ethnic minorities and persons of colour are at risk of
being killed by policemen for the least infractions conceivable.
Fein could also better use his time documenting and collecting
evidence of the thousands of renditions, torture and extra-judicial
executions authorized by the Obama administration, George Bush before
him and even the Trump administration under the guise of going after
international terrorists. These are the cases he can successfully take
to the ICC and not Nigeria that had to battle the odds to contain the
terrorist threats posed by IPoB.
If at any point in time Fein decides to feed his fantasy about
Nigeria, he is welcome to go after IPoB members, who murdered and
buried people in shallow graves. They will make good candidates for
his planned excursion to the ICC.
The Nigerian judiciary recognizes the risk posed by this group and
appropriately designated IPOB as a terrorist organization, which would
make the work of ICC easier as it will not be difficult to recognize
that Fein and his co-traveller are out to waste the its time.
We appeal that this commitment to protect citizens must be sustained
especially at this time of the year when the military usually stage
Operation Python Dance in the south-east of the country. This year's
edition should include in its objective the flushing out of any
terrorists that might have infiltrated the space since the last
exercise.
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