Human Rights Activists

A HUMAN rights activist has dragged former President John Agyekum Kufour, President Yahaya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh of Gambia and the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the International Criminal Court.
According to the activist, the three men failed to act appropriately in the gruesome murder of  72 Ghanaians and eight Nigerians in the Gambia on July 22, 2005.
Mr Anthony Kwabena Abrebrese Rau, a Ghanaian resident in Humburg, Germany, indicated that he had evidence to prove that President Jammeh intensionally ordered the murder of  the stowaways.
He said Mr Kufour, who was the president at the time, intentionally failed to have his Attorney General take immediate legal action against Mr Jammeh.
At a press briefing in Accra yesterday, Mr Rau said he had an eye witness who claimed that when Mr Kufour sent his then Foreign Minister, Nana Akufo-Addo, to meet Mr Jammeh to ascertain the facts about the incident, Mr Jammeh refused to meet him but rather told him that he was not prepared to meet any minister except President Kufour himself.
He said in this case, President Kufour should have taken international legal action against Mr Jammeh and he strongly believed that Mr Kufour misused his power to cover Mr Jammeh.
“Nana Akufo-Addo was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from April 2003-2007 and if his boss failed to work, he should have resigned and made a case against the Gambian President,  Mr Jammeh. I suspect Nana Akufo-Addo also covered the others, which was a crime against the international human rights act,” he said.
He said under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings were born free and equal in dignity and rights and they were endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
He added that everyone had the right to effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution  or by law.
Mr Rau asserted that on June 8, 2011 he received a whole evidence which he thinks was good for prosecution and called on the International Criminal Court to use their good offices to prosecute the three men with the international law of crime.
“The one who gave me this information said it was not true that 44 Ghanaians were murdered in the Gambia, but rather 72 Ghanaians and eight Nigerians. He also alleged that the bodies which the present government requested from the Gambian some months ago and were buried in Ghana were not the rightful dead bodies.
My witness is prepared to show the International Criminal Court where the real bodies were buried,” he said.