IPOB petitions int’l community over court rejection of Kanu’s bail application

Following the denial of bail to the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB)

and Director of Radio Biafra Mr. Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the group has petitioned Amnesty International, Human Right groups as well as other international organizations to intervene.

The group said that the denial of Kanu bail by the Appellate court was a systematic denial of N’digbo rights and a continuation of the molestation of the controversial separatist activist.

A statement signed by the IPOB Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Emma Powerful, said that their call for the international community’s intervention on the matter was to show the world how President Buhari and the APC-led government have disregarded the rule of law.

The spokesman said that IPOB was calling on world powers and other human rights organizations to prevail on the Nigeria government to release Kanu, who has been in detention since October 2015.

The statement alleges that: “Our members, who were doing a peaceful protest in Aba and Port Hacourt, were taken away by the Nigerian Army to their barracks, with bullet wounds on them. At Afikpo and Bori camps, they are undergoing torture with hard labour. Every morning they will bring them out and torture them asking them about missing gun”.

It further states: “We are calling on Amnesty International, all human rights organizations and the international community to come to our rescue. In Aba, the Army are still detaining 25 of our members, while in Port Harcourt 18 persons are still in detention over a peaceful protest to release our leader Kanu.”

Emma has maintained that no amount of intimidation, harassment, imprisonment, shooting or killing of IPOB members would stop their agitation for an independent Biafra state.