Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to elusive leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the Federal Government to
grant state pardon to Igbo youths and members of the group held in
various prisons across the country.
He said the youths were arrested for exhibiting their constitutional rights of self-determination.
Ejiofor, in a letter to the Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, lamented that “hundreds of
innocent and defenseless IPOB members who are mostly youths,” are
languishing in different prisons in the South East states and Kuje
Prison in Abuja which was based on “phantom, frivolous and cooked-up
allegations”.
The counsel drew the attention of Malami to the fact that one of the
alleged IPOB members, Bright Chimezie, has been in custody of the
Department of State Service, DSS, without trial.
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