Biafra: Top Separatist Sends Message to Nigerian Government (ICYMI)

Uche Mefor, the estranged Deputy-Leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has insisted that the Easterners’ agitation for a sovereign nation “is firmly entrenched and rooted in international law”.

Arguing that his actions and that of other Biafra supporters are not criminal, Mefor stressed that “the right to self-determination is a human right”.

“The Nigerian state agents are entitled to their opinions but our claim and assertion to our rights to self-determination is firmly entrenched and rooted in international law. The Biafra Nation has come to stay. The Biafra De Facto Customary Government has come stay, has not challenged the Nigerian state but firmly found its legitimacy and position within the confines of the international legal order,” Mefor wrote on his known Facebook page recently.

“On the other hand, to the contrary, the Nigerian state has subjected majority of the ethnic nationalities and their populations to unimaginable horror, intimidation, sustained systematic human rights abuses, denied them the rights to freely choose their political future (internal self-determination) and this has come to a stage where her sovereignty is now being called to question.

“The right to self-determination is a human right. Article I of the Charter of the United Nations recognises the right to self-determination which underpins its universality, article 1 article common to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) states that:                                                                                                                                   
‘All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development'. 
Article 20 of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981 recognises the rights to self-determination and it subsequently domesticated in Nigerian law under CAP 9 Laws of Federal of Nigeria [LFN] 2004 as amended.

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“We are not at war with the Nigerian State and do not intend to do so, we are doing everything within the confines of the law both domestic and international.”