By Kingston Magare 7.11.2025
Despite President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s strenuous effort to deny “Christian genocide” in Nigeria, a legal brief written in 2020 by newly appointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN), confirmed the crime.
The legal report alleged that the mass killing and genocide across the country are committed by “state and non-state actors.”
The copy of the report titled “Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter” obtained by SaharaReporters called on the international community to stop the “pogrom and attacks against the Christians and minority groups in Nigeria” during the administration of former late President Muhammadu Buhari.
“There is evidence that genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by both State and non-State actors,” Prof Amupitan wrote in the briefing.
“The Nigerian Government has not demonstrated sufficient willpower to deal with the crises; hence they have persisted and proliferated. As there is delay in taking drastic actions, lives are being lost, thereby inching the country’s destination to another Holocaust, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Darfur and Myanmar. Can the country survive it?”
In the report, Prof Amupitan recommended that the United Nations Security Council and the US State Department take action against the perpetrators under international law on crime against humanity.
The document, published by the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), a global advocacy network promoting human rights and religious freedom, was officially signed under Amupitan’s law firm, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) & Co., Legal Practitioners & Corporate Consultants, with offices in Jos and Abuja.
Professor Amupitan was recently appointed chairman of the INEC by President Tinubu.
Prof. Amupitan…