By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the United Nations, UN, for asking the Nigerian Government to rel...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the
United Nations, UN, for asking the Nigerian Government to release its leader,
Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB expressed hope that the Nigerian Government would
comply with the call and release Kanu.
The UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention had called on the Nigerian Government to release Kanu
unconditionally.
The body also charged the Nigerian Government to compensate
Kanu over the illegal extra-ordinary rendition of Kanu from Kenya.
However, the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said: “We,
the global and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the
supreme leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to express our profound
gratitude to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
for their courage in reaching the decision contained in Opinion No 25th July,
2022 concerning the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide
which opinion comports with the tenets of international laws.
“The opinion of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
specifically indicted the Nigerian and Kenyan governments for the kidnap and
extraordinary rendition of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu while directing the
Government of Nigeria to remedy the situation by releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
unconditionally and to compensate him for the abuse and persecution he has been
and continue to be put through.
“Our commendation also goes to our legal advisers and all
those who quietly labored and assisted in achieving this landmark victory. It
is indeed a great milestone for our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB and
Biafrans worldwide.
“It is our hope that Nigeria, as a member of the United
Nations, will take heed and promptly obey and implement the UN directives already
transmitted to it to the letter. We caution that this is not a Nigerian court
decision or order that is often flagrantly disobeyed without consequences.”
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