Nnamdi Kanu: Estranged IPOB Leader, Mefor Speaks On Biafra

Uche Mefor, the estranged Deputy Leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has posited that the Nigerian government does not have any justification to “criminalise” Biafra agitators.

Recall that Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB Leader, was re-arrested and extradited to the country earlier this week by the Nigeria federal government.

The Biafran separatist leader who was born on September 25, 1967, is a holder of Nigerian and British passports. Upon his arrest and extradition from a foreign country, he was arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for terrorism-related charges and has since been remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

Kanu’s re-arrest has generated massive reactions from Nigerians, home and abroad.

In a post on his known Facebook page on Wednesday, Mefor asked the Federal Government not to try any ‘Biafran’ in a ‘kangaroo court’.

Read Mefor’s full post on Biafra agitation below:

BIAFRA'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION UNIMPEACHABLE: SELF-DETERMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT

The right to self-determination is anchored on the international human rights law so much so that it can never be taken away or criminalised. Biafrans must resist any attempt to criminalise them in this regard because the Biafra's case for self-determination remains compelling------unimpeachable and insurmountable.

The Nigerian state has no justification and certainly no legal basis to criminal those who are exercising their rights to self-determination.
No amount of intimidation can stop the quest for self-determination of the BIAFRAN people.The issue at stake cannot be swept away------ it is about the existential threat to collective existence of the people of Biafra and to which the ultimate solution is referendum leading to external self-determination.

If they feel that any Biafran has committed any crime, let them charge the Biafran to a competent court of jurisdiction (not a kangaroo court) under strict respect for and observance of rule of law. In the end and as long as our hands are clean, we shall prevail.

Once again, nothing can quench the determinative resolve for the restoration of Biafra, let alone that of the ingenuity and resilience of the indomitable Biafran spirit.