The Indigenous People of Biafra has called on the British
government to embark on an “aggressive diplomatic engagement” and efforts to
ensure that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was released unconditionally in the
shortest possible time from the detention camp of the Nigerian government.
While alleging that over 300 IPOB members were currently
being detained across detention camps nationwide, the separatist organisation
demanded that the United Kingdom should ensure the safety and protection of its
citizen in the country.
The lead lawyer to IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, raised these issues in a strongly worded letter to the British High Commissioner in Nigeria dated November 17 and titled, ‘Solitary confinement of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (A British citizen) in the custody of the Department of State security in Re: charge NO. FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, Federal Republic of Nigeria V. Nnamdi Kanu’.
The petition reads in part, “The British government is
respectfully urged to do everything to protect the life of its national, our
client, who, from every indication, is gripped by the vice-like, vengeful, and
unrelenting stranglehold of the present Federal Government of Nigeria. Britain
cannot afford to shirk the obligation it owes our client.
“We also respectfully
call for an aggressive diplomatic engagement/effort to ensure that our client
is released unconditionally in the shortest possible time. The Nigerian government
should not be allowed to benefit from its wrongdoing. It grossly violated all
international treaties it is a signatory to the moment it surreptitiously
entered a sovereign state to kidnap/abduct a British national and
extraordinarily renditioned him to Nigeria for a trial that is a sham.”
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