Despite the Thursday’s heavy
downpour in Abuja, protesters numbering over 1,000 stormed the Bristish High
Commission to demand the extradition of Nnamdu Kanu of the Indigenous People of
Biafra back to Nigeria to face charges.
The protesters expressed
disappointment with the British Government that despite the overwhelming
evidence that Kanu is currently hiding in the UK, the embassy is feigning
ignorance the it does not know about his whereabouts.
Recall that a former Abia State
governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, had claimed that Kanu fled to London through
Malaysia.
The ex- Abia state governor had
said, “Kanu was not taken away by the military. Kanu went to Malaysia from
where he travelled to the United Kingdom.
Advocates of Social Justice For
All (ASJA), who championed the protest said its stance was informed by the
knowledge that the UK was instrumental to the escape of the IPOB leader only
for it to turn around to ask Nigerian authorities for clarification on the
state and status of Kanu.
Addressing newsmen during the
well-attended protest, Patriot Venatius Asongo, Executive Director of ASJA
wondered why the United Kingdom had no qualms with its citizen peddling hate
speech and directing IPoB members that allegedly bombed innocent citizens in
Delta state, burnt a police station and killed a policeman in Abia state,
attacked troops on official assignment, raped women, extorted traders, robbed
and commited other atrocities against humanity.
Asongo said that at no time did
the UK, through its High Commission call Kanu to order while he was spewing
crude and derogatory statements about Nigeria.
He said, “It is most Satanic of
the UK to continue according Kanu celebrity treatment when it cannot condone
its own equivalent of IPoB. National Action, NS131 and Scottish Dawn are
proscribed as extremist groups in the UK even when they have committed a tenth
of the atrocities IPoB has unleashed on helpless Nigerians. There was a
clampdown on members of National Action, NS131 and Scottish Dawn but no country
has interfered in the UK’s internal affairs and freedom to run its own
business. Yet, we are not allowed to promptly address a growing terror group
among us when extremist groups are getting the sledgehammer treatment in London.
“We find this not only
irresponsible but also an attempt to precipitate crisis in Nigeria and catalyst
IPoB into something as ferocious as ISIS, which the UK was instrumental to
creating and strengthening through its support for supporting terrorists against
a country’s government as it did in Syria. In our view, this calls for concern
because it implies that the UK is desirous of plunging Nigeria into crisis so
that it can again return as a colonial master.
“In the most shameful exposure of
its duplicity yet, the United Kingdom that is sponsoring IPoB separatist
terrorists against Nigeria had no words for the harsh riot police clampdown
Catalonians in a bid to prevent them from holding a referendum that the
government had declared illegal. As opposed to Nigeria’s military, which
observed rules of engagement in countering IPoB terrorists, in Spain the world
was confronted with images of excessive use of force, brutalization that left
888 people injured in just one day. The United Kingdom was apparently blinded
to this as it found nothing condemnable there since it cannot occupy Spain as a
colony; Nigeria is fair game that the UK wants to conquer through Kanu.”
The group insisted that the High
Commission of the United Kingdom to immediately hands over Kanu, the leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra over now to face charges leveled against him.
“As we make this demand, may we
also specify that the High Commission returns the fugitive terrorist alive; its
request for a status update on Kanu flags its potential to kill or maim him for
any possible set of objectives,” Asongo added on behalf of the group.
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