On 14 October 2015, Nnamdi Kanu, a leading member of one of several Biafran separatist organisations, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which advocates a sovereign state for the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria as well as those from the south-south region of Nigeria, had been arrested in Lagos State by Nigeria‘s secret police the Department of State Services (DSS). Kanu is the director of a London-based radio station named; Radio Biafra used to propagate separatist messages to its followers. Kanu was arrested on treason charges and detained in a Nigerian jail without trial for more than a year-and-a-half, despite various court orders that ruled for his release.

Kanu was later released from Kuje prison in April, 2017 with strict bail conditions. Kanu disappeared from the public after his home was raided by the Nigerian military in September 2017 in an operation tagged ” Python Dance” that had several of his followers allegedly killed by Nigerian soldiers.

November, 2016 – Amnesty International released a report accusing the Nigerian government and its security forces, led by the military for embarking on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in the deaths of at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the south east of the country.

Amnesty based its report on an analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness testimonies relating to demonstrations and other gatherings between August 2015 and August 2016 consistently showing that the military fired live ammunition with little or no warning to disperse crowds. It also found evidence of mass extrajudicial executions by security forces, including at least 60 people shot dead in the space of two days in connection with events to mark Biafra Remembrance Day.

https://reportsafrique.com/africa/nigeria/buhari-nigeria-tyranny-reigns-once-democratic-country/

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