IPOB Sends Strong Message To Global Community Over Nnamdi Kanu’s Continued Detention, Reveals What Will Happen Next
The Indigenous People of Biafra (lPOB) has warned against the continuous detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian government after the Court of Appeal discharged and acquitted him of all criminal charges preferred against him.
IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful on Wednesday, expressed displeasure over the silence of the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the continued detention of Kanu by the Nigerian government.
IPOB said, “We are saddened as the International Community watches in silence as the health of our leader deteriorates in the solitary confinement dungeon of the Nigeria government where he has been held illegally and unlawfully against all UN and Nigeria Court Orders for almost 2 years.”
IPOB alleged that any time Kanu’s case comes up either in Nigeria or outside the country, “the Nigerian government would sponsor multiple killings in the South East so as to ascribe it to IPOB and people will see IPOB as a terrorist organization.”
The group further stated that Kanu’s applications seeking transfer to Kuje correctional centre and for his bail were all due for hearing but the Supreme Court failed to hear them.
The statement added, “We believe that the Nigerian government wants our leader to die in detention. It is also possible that DSS has given him a slow-acting poison, which is why his health keeps deteriorating to eventually kill him.
“In what we consider a conspiracy to kill our leader, the Nigeria Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court refused to entertain an appeal from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers over his deteriorating health. Instead, the Apex Court gave a wicked long adjournment of 4 months to an innocent man that Appeal Court Justices have discharged and acquitted.
“In all these human rights and court abuses, there seems to be a conspiratory silence among international organizations and her affiliate Human Right Organizations.
“We are telling the International Community and African Union in particular not to blame IPOB for whatever becomes the aftermath of Nigeria’s continuous disobedience to both local and international laws in the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu now.
“We want the world to understand that IPOB is peaceful but understands our right of self-defense. The gentleness of a Tiger should not be taken as cowardice.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Our prayers are that the Nigerian government will do the needful on time because if our leader falls in the hands of Nigeria, then Nigeria and her leaders will fall in the hands of Biafra.”
