Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu will
be leading other members of the group to the United Nations General
Assembly slated for New York, United States of America.
The Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Emma Powerful made
the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen in Onitsha on
Monday.
It said the trip was something the leadership of the movement was looking forward to with great enthusiasm.
The statement partly read, “Regarding the United Nations
General Assembly meeting in New York, we have both direct and indirect
representations for the forthcoming events in the US. Our people are on
the ground.
“If the right conditions which we are waiting for are put in
place, our leader will personally lead our people; otherwise it would be
on a later date which would be duly announced.”
Speaking on the recent meeting with UN officials in Geneva, Powerful said, “Our
exchanges were frank and forthright. If there were doubts before in
their minds that Nigeria is one almighty calamity, the feeling we got
after our discussions is that they now have a proper appreciation and
deeper understanding of how irredeemably hopeless the case for one
Nigeria has become in light of the reign of impunity, poverty,
repression, unbridled corruption and collapse of the legal system.
“We understand and respect the legitimate yearning of the
public to know what transpired between IPOB delegation to the United
Nations in Geneva led by our able leader and prophet Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
and the staff of the various agencies of the UN we met and had fruitful
discussions with.
“Without divulging very sensitive details that may undermine
confidence and future discussions such as the one we just had, it will
be prudent to say at this time that the meetings went very well and in
some instances surpassed our expectations.
“Our case is now before the various specialised UN agencies or
working groups with specialty in various specific monumental human
rights abuses systematically perpetrated against Biafrans and other
vulnerable individuals and groups in Nigeria.”
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