The Nigerian Government on
Tuesday told an Abuja Federal High Court that leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Nnmadi Kanu deliberately went into hiding to avoid the
consequences of himself and his group.
The Federal Government said this
while urging the Acting Chief Judge of the High Court, Justice Abdu Kafarati,
to dismiss the motion IPOB filed to quash the proscription order.
Represented by the Solicitor
General of the Federation, Dayo Akpata, the Federal Government insisted that
there was no bloody onslaught in Kanu’s house during the Operation Python Dance
II, adding that it was not responsible for the whereabouts of the IPOB leader.
Akpata insisted that there was no
report from security operatives to the effect that Kanu was missing.
He said Kanu “has deliberately
gone into hiding ostensibly to avoid his adjourned trial and also to avoid the
likely legal consequences of the activities of himself and his group”.
The government also informed the
court that the proscribed pro-Biafra group was behind recent cache of arms
intercepted in Lagos by the Nigeria Customs Service, NSC.
It noted that investigations
revealed that members of the group imported arms, comprising of pump action
rifles from Turkey.
Justifying its decision to apply
for IPOB to be outlawed, the FG said the deal was brokered by a Turkish
national that allegedly visited the ‘missing’ IPOB leader, shortly after he was
released from detention.
Akpata urged Justice Kafarati to
dismiss the motion IPOB filed to quash the proscription order.
It told the court that activities
of IPOB “has been hampering effective policing of the South East region”,
adding that the Inspector General of Police had directed his men to deal
decisively with Biafra agitators who ordered restriction of movement in the
South East to mark the Biafra Day celebration.”
He said “The leader of Biafra
Independent Movement, BIM, and founder of the renowned Movement for
Actualisation of Soverign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Ralph Uwazuruike, attested
to the violent conducts of IPOB members”.
The government noted that
Uwazuruike attested that the IPOB’s activities was against the principles of
non-violence in the achievement of Biafra independence.
“That aside from threatening to
stop Anambra governorship election in November, Nnamdi Kanu has also stated
that there would be no elections in the other four South East States in 2019”,
he said.
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