ABSTRACT
From the ad hoc tribunals, through the hybrid courts, to the International Criminal Court, Africa appears to be feeling ostensibly betrayed by the international community in their perception that there is an abdication of responsibility by the latter for international criminal justice as one of the keys to global security and stability. Thus, in Africa, the civil society can be very critical to the advancement of the cause of international criminal accountability through the Rome Statute and the furtherance of the principle of complementarity. The controversy was to be aggravated by the contradiction in the bill to domesticate the Rome Statute, a bill that provides for the consent or authorization of Nigeria’s Attorney-General before the prosecution of an offender in the commission of radical evils. The resilience and impenetrability of the Boko Haram Imam in the battle of Alargano was just one of the illustrations of the preparedness of militants in the face of the Nigerian government’s cloven-hoof attitude.
