Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, disclosed that issues concerning the Biafran people were before the various arms and agencies of the United Nations, adding that Biafra’s case would no longer be swept under the carpet.
The IPOB leader had led a delegation to a series of meetings with
various UN agencies and officials at Geneva where he presented Biafra’s
plight on Tuesday.
Emma Powerful, the IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, in a
statement on Thursday, said Kanu’s emergence from the meeting was met
with chants of the eulogy by a congregation of Biafrans.
Powerful disclosed that Kanu demanded urgent action against the
numerous rights abuses inflicted daily upon Biafra agitators by the
government of the day and the need to support the undeniable right of
Biafrans to self-determination as enshrined in law, statute and various
UN conventions.
The statement added, “Every issue concerning our people is now
before the various arms and agencies of the United Nations. Our case
will no longer be ignored.
“The case of RUGA settlement was also raised and the august
body was left in doubt that Biafrans will never allow Fulani terror
settlements in Biafraland.
“Incessant killing of Biafrans in their own land by terrorist
Fulani herdsmen, extortion and killing of Biafran motorcyclists and
commercial drivers by the Nigerian army and police over refusal to give
N50 bribery.”
It added that Kanu was accompanied by his deputy, Mazi Uche Mefor,
Head of Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem and other top echelons
of the struggle.
The Biafran leader raised the continued illegal detention of
Omoleye Sowore, the relentless persecution of the members of the Islamic
Movement of Nigeria led by Sheikh El-Zakzaky, among other issues.
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