Designating Biafra’s Nnamdi Kanu as an Internationally Protected Person

The United Nations Security Council, under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter should designate Biafra’s Nnamdi Kanu as an “internationally protected person” as defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, Including Diplomatic Agents. Article I of the Convention defines an “internationally protected person as “A Head of State, including any member of a collegial body performing the functions of a Head of State under the constitution of the State concerned, a Head of Government or a Minister of Foreign Affairs, whenever such person is in a foreign state ….”

Nnamdi Kanu is de facto a member of a body of Biafrans who collectively perform the functions of a Head of State in seeking to protect the physical safety and security of Biafrans in Nigeria’s South East region from the murderous Hausa-Fulani Islamic government of Nigeria headed by former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Mr. Buhari was elected President of Nigeria under an illegitimate constitution decreed in 1999 by a fellow military dictator for the purpose of holding Biafrans in bondage to Hausa-Fulani terrorists.

At present, Mr. Buhari has dispatched Nigeria’s Hausa-Fulani dominated military to occupy and impose de facto martial law on Biafra’s civilian population. Nigeria’s illegitimate Muslim government has concocted bogus treason charges against Mr. Kanu.

Nigeria’s military has quarantined Mr. Kanu’s home and killed his supporters. It has placed him under de facto house arrest. It has recently, summarily, and absurdly designated the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organization in a secret Star Chamber process denuded of any trappings of due process. In fact, IPOB is a peaceful political group led in part by Mr. Kanu that seeks restructuring of Nigeria in conformity with time-honored principles of self-determination. The bogus terrorist label has been attached to IPOB by the Hausa-Fulani Government of Nigeria in hopes of excusing its ongoing genocide of Biafrans based exclusively on their religion or ethnicity. State governors in the five Biafran states in Nigeria are not independent actors, but puppets or quislings of Mr. Buhari.