The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), yesterday published a documentary of the violations of the rights of its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by the Nigerian government insisting that self-determination is not a crime either in Nigeria or any international law.
The position of the self-determination group was sequel to the denial of the Department of State Service (DSS) that Kanu was suffering in its facility. Speaking through its secretary of media and publicity, Emma Powerful, in statement obtained by Saturday Telegraph, IPOB declared hat the extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria without proper documentation and his long incarceration and detention in DSS custody, were evidence of rights violation against Kanu, adding “we the global movement and family of the IPOB wish to state categorically to the people of the world that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is now declared Prisoner Of Conscience.” “In 2015 Nnamdi Kanu was first arrested and subjected to egregious violation of his fundamental rights.”
“After his miraculous escape from the military invasion of his home in 2017, he was abducted in Kenya and returned to Nigeria in June this year.” The group further noted that self-determination was not against any Nigerian or international law and wondered why its Leader should be in “DSS detention in Abuja ever since then. “We therefore, have to inform the world, mostly civilised countries and Africa continent that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is fighting for the freedom and self-determination of his people because under the United Nations Charter, to which Nigeria is a signatory, self-determination is not a crime.
