The Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), has accused the federal government of approaching the Community Court
of West Africa (ECOWAS court) to strike out its suit of rights abuses.
The group said it was the reason
Its leader, Nnamdi Kanu had jumped bail.
IPOB said it condemns in its
totality the new strategy employed by the federal government to ensure that its
leader was denied justice, when in the real sense he was being held by the
Army.
Mr Emma Powerful, media and
publicity secretary of the group in a press release in Awka on Monday, stated that, “Federal Government of Nigeria and her
agents, seeking to frustrate the ongoing human rights enforcement process had
applied to strike out the matter.”
He said It had become customary
for this current APC government to abuse and violate human rights at will and
when confronted with their deeds in a competent court of law, they resort to
“blackmail, cheap lies, misinformation and sometimes inducing a certain
sections of the media to help them sway public opinion against victims of their
cruel regime.
“Instead of addressing the
substance of the charges against them before ECOWAS Court for nearly two years
now, they chose instead their favorite method of trial by media and senseless
smear campaign.
“The case of abuse of fundamental
human rights by the Buhari regime brought by the leader of IPOB Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu at the ECOWAS Court has been pending for two years, with the government
employing all manner of delay tactics to frustrate the case. Now they are
holding Nnamdi Kanu in their custody, having denied such publicly, they have
finally woken up to ask the court to dismiss the charges against them after
sanctioning and conducting the kidnapping raid in Afaraukwu on the 14th of
September 2017.
“It will be fair to assume, going
by the antics of this government, that their primary reason for the murderous
raid on the home of the IPOB leader, was to remove him from circulation and
truncate all legal matters involving him.
“The government think their plans
will remain undetected forever but they are mistaken. Why didn’t the Buhari
regime bother to attend ECOWAS Court throughout the period Nnamdi Kanu was out
on bail or in prison?”
Powerful said that the group has
said uncovered that the abduction of Kanu in September was deliberate so as to
stop him from appearing in court in October, so that he would be labelled as
having jumped bail.
“You remember that Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu went to Ohafia to announce publicly he’d be attending court on the 17th of
October 2017 with 2 million men, the powers that be raided his house and
abducted him because they did not want him to appear in court,” Powerful
stated.
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