Vice President of the Nigerian
Bar Association, NBA, Monday Ubani has called on the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, to challenge its proscription in a competent court of law.
Ubani made the call while faulting
the ruling of an Abuja Federal High Court declaring IPOB under the leadership
of Nnamdi Kanu as a terrorist organisation.
In a statement he issued on
Thursday, Ubani said the ruling proscribing IPOB was lamentable because the
group is not a registered entity in Nigeria.
According to Ubani, “The ruling
by the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday shows that some of us were right
when we said that the Nigerian military was wrong to have pronounced IPOB a
terrorist organisation without following due process.
“It also showed that we were
right when we told the south-east governors that they have no right under the
law to proscribe IPOB. The proscription of any organization as stipulated by
law is through a judicial process.
“The issue now is if you say you
have proscribed an organisation and that organisation is not registered in law,
there is a problem. Our laws stipulate that only a juristic person can be sued.
“I believe IPOB is not registered
under our laws. So there is a problem because the court has just proscribed an
organsation that is not registered under our laws.
“If you take a look at the court
order, it says IPOB, whereas there is no entity known as IPOB under our
laws…This is clearly a complex situation. I think what IPOB has to do now is to
proceed to the court to challenge the order.
“Even if, assuming without
conceding that IPOB was properly registered under our law, does it qualify to
be labelled a terrorist organisation based on our laws and arguments advanced
by the Attorney-General?
“As it stands today, IPOB by way
of the Federal High Court order, remains a terrorist organization but that
order can be challenged and set aside.”
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The one is speaking nonsense. An organization you say cannot be proscribed by law because it was not duly registered will now go to court to challenge it's proscription? Do you even realize that anybody that says he is IPOB now can be arrested and arraigned as a terrorist?
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