On the last Sunday of June this year, members of an armed separatist group in Nigeria assembled for a Zoom…
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Aloy Ejimakor has claimed that the Nigerian government wants the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu…
The 15 senators, who were led by a former Abia Deputy Governor, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, handed over their letter of appeal for Kanu’s release to Fagbemi for onward passage to the president.
“The Forum deliberated on the reviewed report of the South East Security and Economic Summit held in Owerri on September 28, 2023, and agreed to implement the aspects of the report about security and economic integration.
“Henceforth, any further reference to IPOB as a terrorist organization will be met and countervailed with muscular litigation and other lawful measures, regardless of who the entity is.
He said the decision to forward all the court orders was in response to the statement credited to the AGF that he was not aware of Kanu’s case and that his fate would be resolved by the court.
“I want to make it clear that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the armed forces can crush violent non-state actors, making our communities unsafe,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
In a ruling on Kanu’s request, Justice Nyako said that she found as a fact, that Kanu jumped the bail earlier granted him, and escaped out of the country.
“We will not participate in the assassination of justice in a Nigerian court over the head of Nnamdi Kanu. We will refuse to be part of the programmed injustice,” he said.
Ekpa is the mastermind of the ‘sit-at-home’ on Mondays and other days in the Southeast states of Nigeria, and many, including security operatives, have been killed by the enforcers of the sit-at-home order who are believed to be acting on his orders.