Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Addresses IPOB Proscription Concerns

A lawyer to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has stated that the proscription of the controversial group "is a subject of appeal in the Court of Appeal".

Ejiofor, who is also the lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, the diaspora-based IPOB leader noted that the group he defends "have an application for stay of execution".

“It must interest you to know that the proscription of IPOB is a subject of appeal in the Court of Appeal,” Ejiofor said according to Premium Times.

“We have an application for stay of execution (on the proscription order),” he said.

Furthermore. Ejiofor said IPOB remains a lawful organisation until the case against its proscription is ultimately thrashed out at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

“The IPOB members are at all times exercising their rights as provided under the law, including their right to freedom of association.”

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Who are IPOB?

- The group was founded by Nnamdi Kanu in 2014.

- It was poscribed as a terrorist group by the Nigerian government in 2017.

- The group wants states in south-east Nigeria, made up mainly of people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away and form the independent nation of Biafra.

- Kanu was arrested in 2015 in Nigeria and spent more than a year-and-a-half in jail without trial on treason charges.

- Kanu, also a British citizen, jumped bail and fled Nigeria, his country of birth, in 2017.