Africa Business Radio

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is set to seek authorisation from the Pre-Trial Chamber of the court to open an investigation into cases of abduction of schoolchildren in several parts of Northern Nigeria.A statement by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project says they will also be investigated the closure of schools, and the persistent failure of Nigerian authorities at both the federal and state levels to end the abduction.The agency’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, says the ICC prosecutor’s decision followed a petition sent to the court by SERAP.SERAP argued that the severe and lifelong harms that result from depriving children of the right to education satisfy the gravity of harm threshold under the Rome Statute.