Nigerian Government has formally
informed the governments of the United States, US, United Kingdom, UK, and
other foreign countries of its decision to declare the Nnamdi Kanu-led
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a terrorist organisation.
An Abuja Federal High Court in
Abuja had, on August 20, proscribed IPOB, following a motion filed by the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami
(SAN).
The court had also ordered that
the proscription be published in the Federal Government’s gazette which was
done.
Against this backdrop, both the
US and UK had faulted the declaration, insisting that the group was not a
terrorist organisation.
Speaking with Punch, on
Wednesday, Malami said some foreign countries have been duly notified.
Malami disclosed that the Federal
Government would be seeking a Mutual Legal Assistance from the foreign
governments to stop those funding the group and deal with IPOB members as
terrorists.
The report said Federal Ministry
of Justice, through its Central Authority Unit, had sent separate letters to
all the foreign missions operating in Nigeria.
According to Malami, “Just think
of any embassy you know is operating in Nigeria, they have all been served.
“All we did was to send copies of
the gazettes attached to the cover letters to notify them of the status of IPOB
as far as Nigeria is concerned.
“Although the proscription widely
reported in newspapers, has been published in the Federal Government’s gazette
and advertised in newspapers as ordered by the court, we had to formalise it by
notifying our foreign friends, I mean the foreign governments, which have
embassies in Nigeria; and that was exactly what we did by sending copies of the
gazette to them.”
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Stop your melodrama, will you FG? Do you have a special dictionary for English Language? Nonsense in Abuja.
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