On the 30th of December 2015, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari who is the current president of Nigeria told the world that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), will not be released from detention despite two court orders for him to be released. The reasons Buhari gave were that;
1) Nnamdi Kanu committed atrocities (Buhari was not specific on this),
2) Nnamdi Kanu will jump bail,
3) Nnamdi Kanu has two passports (one British and one Nigerian),
4) Nnamdi Kanu entered into Nigeria without a passport,
5) Nnamdi Kanu imported sophisticated broadcasting equipment into Nigeria with which he is broadcasting Radio Biafra, and
6) Nnamdi Kanu has a treasonable felony charge against him.
There are two things that must be placed on records here and these are:
i) The Magistrate Court and the High Court, all in Abuja, both ordered the release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally. At no time during the court proceedings did the attorney representing the Directorate of State Services (DSS) raise any objection or bring the issues/concerns mentioned by Mr. Buhari. In every organized society, any pronouncement of the court stands until invalidated or vacated by another court of competent jurisdiction.
ii) On the 31st of December 1983, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari led his military colleagues to forcefully overthrow a democratically elected Federal Government of Nigeria headed by Alhaji Aliyu Usman Shehu Shagari. This act, in every known country of the world, is called TREASON and in some cases the punishment is death. The entire world and IPOB in particular are shocked by the statements of Mr. Buhari in which he overrode the supremacy of court orders. The world is also surprised that Mr. Buhari who committed treason in 1983 when he sacked a democratically elected government, is now sitting in judgment accusing Mr. Nnamdi Kanu of treasonable felony.
As at the time of Mr. Buhari’s statements, the proposed case of charging Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is still with the Chief Judge of the High Court for assignment to a trial Judge but Mr. Buhari has already found Mr. Nnamdi Kanu guilty.
Previously, the leadership of IPOB has alerted the world on the terrorist attacks on Biafrans by the Buhari-led Nigerian government. We provided verifiable evidences and quoted dates, places, and individuals visited with terror acts by Buhari’s agents. We also alerted the international community that the Buhari-led Nigerian government is provoking Biafrans into reacting to the incessant killings and that the government will turn around and tag IPOB as a terrorist organization.
Today, all our predictions have not only come to pass, the terrorist acts visited upon Biafrans by Mr. Buhari and his agents have quadrupled and more Biafrans have been killed by Buhari’s agents than was projected. For the avoidance of doubt, the quest for self-determination is sacrosanct, UN-approved via the U.N.D.R.I.P., and is part of the Nigerian Constitution. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is not a terrorist organization but an UN-recognized and ECOSOC-registered organization. The IPOB is legally registered in many countries of the world with certificate of recognition issued by the governments of such countries.
The principal officers of IPOB in each country are law-abiding citizens and they do not operate in hiding. Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is the Leader of IPOB worldwide and he does not have any criminal record and he has visited almost every country in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North America including Australia and Trinidad & Tobago. We would like to make it very clear to Mr. Buhari and his Nigerian agents that the quest for the restoration of the nation of Biafra is unstoppable, unchangeable, irrevocable and irreversible. Mr. Buhari’s disobedience to court orders and the manufacturing/concocting of charges in order to jail or extra-judicially murder Mr. Nnamdi Kanu shall never deter Biafrans from the God-ordained project of the restoration of the nation of Biafra.
However, we want to give an advance warning that Biafrans have the rights to self-defence and this right will be exercised to its fullest. Again, we warn that exercising our right to self-defence must not be used as an excuse to tag IPOB as a terrorist organization. The ball is now in the court of Mr. Buhari and his agents to either obey court orders and release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu from detention and stop the continual killing of Biafrans or brace up for backlash from the international community because we believe they will not continue to watch Mr. Buhari misbehave and bring shame to humanity. A stitch in time saves nine, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari.
Signed:
Barrister Emma Nmezu: (Spokesperson for IPOB)
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya (Spokesperson for IPOB)
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