The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, on Friday faulted an Abuja Federal High Court judgement affirming it as a
terrorist organisation.
Recall that Justice Abdu Kafarati
yesterday affirmed its earlier judgement that the pro-Biafra group remains a
terrorist organisation.
Reacting to the judgement, the
pro-Biafra group wondered how the judge came to the conclusion even when there
is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that IPOB is an armed or violent group
like Fulani herdsmen.”
In a statement signed by its
spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the group challenged the judge, Department of
State Services, DSS, and the Attorney General’s office to name “one verifiable
incident of breach of peace, murder, arson or rape- usually associated with
their fellow Fulani herdsmen – that IPOB has ever been associated with?”
The pro-Biafra group maintained
that Justice Kafarati’s ruling was a confirmation to the fact that “Nigeria is
indeed a shit-hole.”
The statement reads, “It didn’t
come to us as a surprise that the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Abuja on
Thursday the 18th of January 2018, upheld it’s obnoxious order proscribing the
activities of IPOB, when everybody knows that the organisation is peaceful and
have not killed an ant, talk less of taking a human life.
“Acting Chief Judge Justice, Abdu
Kafarati while delivering on the application brought by IPOB, resolved that the
order he made on 20th September 2017 proscribing IPOB was validly issued. We
remain at a loss to understand how the court could have come to this conclusion
in view of the fact there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that IPOB is an
armed or violent group like Fulani herdsmen.
“Simply put, a judge cannot be
ignorant of the law and at the same time lacking in conscience. What
Abdu-Kafarati has displayed, by upholding his originally flawed judgement, is
nothing short of judicial impunity, recklessness and raw wickedness. He failed
to address all the issues before him but rather chose to be selective. The
simple question which ordinary people have been asking all along is this. What
activity or aspect of IPOB operations can be regarded as constituting a
terrorist act?
“Can Judge Abdu-Kafarati, the DSS
or Attorney General’s office name one verifiable incident of breach of peace,
murder, arson or rape- usually associated with thier fellow Fulani herdsmen-
that IPOB has ever been associated with?
“Instead of addressing these
simple questions, Kafarati spent all his time outlining why tagging IPOB a
terrorist organisation inside his chambers is legal. But that wasn’t the
question before him for determination. How can you term an organisation a
terrorist group when that group has not done anything remotely resembling a
terrorist act. There is no recorded or verifiable instance of violence
associated with IPOB, unless holding public rallies, right of assembly and
association constitutes a terrorist act.
“It is shocking that IPOB, a
world acknowledged peaceful movement duly registered in more than 88 countries
of the world, was tagged a terrorist organisation in a court of law of a
supposedly civilised country. Under such circumstance, it will be difficult to
fault President Trump’s description of Africa as a “shit-hole”. Such travesty
of justice, like the labeling of IPOB, a peaceful organisation a terrorist
group by a supposedly learned and impartial judge of a High Court, while the
state reward and protect known killers like Fulani herdsmen. This mind blowing
absurdity cannot obtain anywhere else in the world except in black Africa. “
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