Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to
elusive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has
called on the Federal Government to grant state pardon to Igbo youths and
members of the group held in various prisons across the country.
He said the youths were arrested
for exhibiting their constitutional rights of self-determination.
Ejiofor, in a letter to the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami,
lamented that “hundreds of innocent and defenseless IPOB members who are mostly
youths,” are languishing in different prisons in the South East states and Kuje
Prison in Abuja which was based on “phantom, frivolous and cooked-up
allegations”.
The counsel drew the attention of
Malami to the fact that one of the alleged IPOB members, Bright Chimezie, has
been in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, without trial.
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