Kanu’s bail: IPOB petitions rights groups, Amnesty, international community


AGAINST the backdrop of denial of bail to leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Direc­tor ofRadio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal High Court sit­ting in Abuja, the group has petitioned Amnesty International, Human Rights groups as well as other international com­munities to intervene on his behalf.
The group said denial of Kanu bail by the ap­pellate court was a sys­tematic denial of Ndigbo their rights in an effort to silence agitation for sov­ereignty.
In a statement signed by IPOB Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Emma Powerful and made available to the Daily Sun, the group said its call for international communities interven­tion on the matter was to show the world how Bu­hari and All Progressives Congress (APC)-led ad­ministration refused to abide by the rule of law.
He said IPOB was call­ing on world powers and global human rights or­ganisations to prevailed on the Nigerian govern­ment to release Kanu who had been in deten­tion since October last year.
“Our members who staged peaceful protests in Aba and Port Harcourt were taken away by the army to their barracks with bullet wounds on them. At Afikpo and Bori camps, every morning, they will bring them out and ask them about miss­ing guns.
“We are calling on Amnesty International, all human rights organ­isations and international communities to come to our rescue. In Aba, the army is allegedly still holding on to 25 mem­bers while in Port Har­court, 18 persons are still with them over a peace­ful protest to release our leader, Kanu,” the state­ment said.
Powerful, howev­er, maintained that no amount of intimidation, molestation, harassment, and imprisonment would stop the agitation for a Biafra state.
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