Afrigather The Indigenous Folks of Biafra has requested the Federal Authorities to launch its detained chief, Mazi Kanu, on well being grounds, earlier than it’s too late.
The group insisted that Kanu didn’t commit any crime, saying that the IPOB chief was “criminally kidnapped” from Kenya and positioned in unlawful detention in Nigeria.
In an announcement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Highly effective, on Thursday, it urged Justice Binta Nyako to guard the sanctity of the judiciary by ordering the Federal Authorities to launch the detained IPOB chief.
The group mentioned the illegal rendition of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria constituted a pure bar to any prosecution or his additional detention in DSS solitary confinement and in addition a violation of his elementary rights.
The assertion learn, “We, the worldwide motion of IPOB, want to state unequivocally that the rendition of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria since June 2021 until date is a violation of his elementary rights.
“No civilised nation on the planet, extra so, these underneath widespread regulation system of justice, condone kidnapping and extrajudicial switch of suspects throughout worldwide borders, with out the authority of regulation grounded in an extradition course of.
“Nigeria courtroom should shield the sanctity of the establishment of judiciary by ordering for the unconditional launch of Kanu on the face of the elemental violations of worldwide and native legal guidelines by the Federal Authorities within the abduction and extraordinary rendition of our nice chief.
“We insist that our nice chief, Kanu, must be launched unconditionally with out a lot delay and hesitation.”
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