Kanu: FG under pressure over UN order ■Nigeria risks diplomatic sanctions, say Muoma, Ejimakor
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) is upbeat that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu would soon be a free man, going by the recent directive by the United Nations to the Nigerian Government.
Kanu, who is currently facing trial, has been in the detention facility of the Department of State Service (DSS) in Abuja, the nation’s capital for about 14 months after his interception and rendition from Kenya by the Nigeria authorities.
But the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in its decision contained in opinion No. 25/22, has reportedly asked the Nigerian Government to release the separatist unconditionally and compensate him for the abuse and torture he has and continues to suffer. Kanu’s international legal counsel, Mr Bruce Fein and Prof. Rachael Murray, who were engaged by his family as well as the IPOB leader’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, initiated the efforts leading to the UN directive.
The family of the embattled IPOB leader also hired two top legal firms, which filed a kidnapping case against Nigeria in the United Kingdom.
Bindmans and Doughty Street Chambers, the law firms defending Kanu had said in a statement: “At the time of the transfer, Mr Kanu was not in possession of his British passport. The transfer by Nigerian authorities, without identification documents and with the aim of rendition to justice, amounts to extraordinary rendition and is unlawful under international law.”
Speaking on the latest development, Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor and Chairman of Igbo Lawyers Association (ILA), Chief Chuks Muoma, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said Nigeria was bound to obey the UN directive. Muoma said it will be an international scandal if Nigeria refuses to obey the UN directive for Kanu’s release. He further said the country might be sanctioned if it turns a deaf ear to the UN Human Rights body’s order stressing that it was dependent on whatever decision the body will recommend to its General Assembly for approval against Nigeria.
The former IPOB lawyer explained that a refusal will amount to disobeying the world body, to which Nigeria is a member, emphasizing that if one belongs to an organisation, he or she will abide by its rules and regulations.
“It will be international scandal to disobey a directive from such an organisation like the United Nations, so it has to carry out its membership obligations by obeying to release and pay adequate compensation to Kanu, as directed,” Muoma said.
Saturday Sun learnt that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which rendered the opinion on Kanu as a quasi-judicial body that has the legal mandate of the United Nations to consider and adjudicate human rights petitions against member nations of the UN.
Flowing from the above, Ejimakor argued that failure of Nigeria to release Kanu will trigger a nasty diplomatic conflict with the UN that may convulse the country.
He explained: “Further, the opinion is legally binding on Nigeria because the decision is based primarily on human rights standards set by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Nigeria is a signatory.
“Additionally, Nigeria, in addition to ratifying the UN Charter, has also ratified other human rights instruments that require it to comply with opinions like this. Ratification is a means by which a nation makes itself subject to international laws and treaties. And by the provisions of Section 12 of Nigeria Constitution and a plethora of decisions by the Supreme Court of Nigeria, ratification makes Nigeria subject to whatever it ratified.
“It goes without saying therefore, that as a bonafide member of the United Nations, Nigeria is subject to decisions issuing from all UN bodies. Nigeria is thus duty-bound to implement this decision in its letters and spirit. And it is expected to do so promptly.”
Speaking further on whether the Nigerian Government has taken any actions and what the next line of action would be if the directive is ignored, Ejimakor said he believed that something was being done.
“Given that the decision called for the ‘immediate’ release of Kanu, I wager that the government is already giving it consideration. Nonetheless, if compliance doesn’t happen within a reasonable time, we will consider the many options we can employ to compel compliance.”
“It is never in contemplation that a responsible member of United Nations (such as Nigeria) will thumb its nose at the UN. But wherever such had happened in the past, even so rarely, it opened up a host of legal and diplomatic consequences. It not only brought the international legal and diplomatic order to bear aggressively but the domestic legal regime as well,” he stated.
Saturday Sun was informed that the Opinion, which was issued on July 20, 2022, was forwarded to the Governments of Nigeria and Kenya on July 22, while the advance copy was released to Kanu’s counsel the next day.
Christistruth00: At Independence the Capital was less than 5% of today's lagos , Over95% of which was in Awolowo’s Western Region
The dream that made lagos an Economic Powerhouse was Awolowo’s dream
Awolowo was busy trying to Overtake Europe
It may seem hilarious in today’s Nigeria but that is the Truth
awolowo built Ikeja including its industrial estates From the Scratch out of a jungle where Elephants, leopards, and Gorillas were still roaming around, into the Capital of the western region, Ikeja Province in those days reached the Sea Coast Of Lagos
awolowo was building Modern Cattle Ranches all over the western region with Cattle Imported from Isreal in 1956 !!
Awolowos western region was broadcasting Terrestial Television’ before France !
awolowo had big dreams for his People, Singapore and Dubai were too small compared to what awolowo was aiming for With all humility , awolowo outperformed the British
The dream that turned lagos into an Economic Powerhouse was Awolowos dream
Awolowo was Jailed for that dream
Jakande, Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode, Sanwo Olu continued with that dream
As if we care ! Lagos belong to the Afonja's... No one is disputing that fact..
Igbo will soon move to our dear region in droves and develop it from the scratch when imminent Biafra actualization take place...
franchasofficia: It seems most of you Yorubas have inferiority complex and cowardice wired inside of you.
How is Lagos an Igbo State ? Are you foolish ? How can Lagos be an Igbo state or how can Igbos come all the way from Southeast to take Lagos away from Yorubas, are you guys really okay or you lots have gone bonkers or what? I just cant understand this disheartening hatred and obsession for Igbos by Yorubas. Igbos no send una oh, Igbos only care about excelling in whatever they do, doing their businesses, building good houses, safeguarding the financial future of their children and living a quality life. Any Igbo man that tells you he wants to take over Lagos is only deceiving you because he knows that's what most of you Yorubas hallucinate about all day.
You Yorubas sometimes act like fools by believing in your foolishness. Just imagine the nonsense someone wrote, that Igbos plan to snatch Lagos away from Yorubas hahahahaha and the same Igbos want to secede from Nigeria to leave behind their huge investments and properties in your Lagos which they also did in 1966 without looking back yet you are here deluding yourself and deceiving your fellow gullible Yoruba urchins lolz.
Lagos is a Yoruba state and nobody can change it, stop being foolish nobody is dragging Lagos with Yorubas not till eternity. You Yorubas should stop being jittery over nothing, haba.
How many Igbos have became Lagos state Governor or Oba or LGA Chairman or Iyaloja or any other key leaders of Lagos? Why are most of you Yorubas so scared and cowardly towards Igbos that don't send you.
And stop all these Tinubu made Lagos this and that, who is Tinubu? Lagos made Tinubu who he is by stealing and looting Lagos money yet you fools worship a corrupt man like Tinubu that stole your treasury and giving you hungry lots paltry to hero worship him in the name of being Omoluabi or whatever that means.
Please let me repeat it again, Lagos can never be an Igbo state. Lagos is a purely Yoruba owned state and so shall it be till the end of the world. Igbos have no interest in Lagos. If Igbos do, they won't be asking for independence to go back and build their own nation, get that into your cowardly skull.
The only reason Igbos are many in Lagos is because of some reasons below:
1.) Lagos was the capital city of Nigeria for decades and most government institutions and organizations had their headquarters in Lagos so it was natural to migrate there for economic survival.
2.) Lagos was and still a port city that also doubles as a capital city cum economic hub of Nigeria so it was natural for Igbos known for trade to flood to Lagos to carry out their import and export business since the Nigerian government used one sided and divisive policies to make Lagos seaports the only viable and cheapest ports to carry out imports and exports, sending Calabar, Rivers and Delta ports to the back stage.
3.) Before now, Lagos international airport was the only closest Intl airport closest to Igbos. and Igbos are known for migration and exploring countries, so Lagos intl airport became the only option for them to fly in and out of Nigeria and to also bring in goods after they leave Nigeria.
4.) Foreign country embassies. Before now, Lagos being the capital city of Nigeria became headquarters of all foreign countries embassies and consular offices for Nigerians that wished to travel outside Nigeria to obtain other countries' visas. So it was impossible for any Igbo that wanted to leave Nigeria not to go to Lagos to get visa documentation.
So it was federal government policies that attracted Igbos to Lagos and it was federal government policies that favoured Lagos in so many economic reforms and stuffs that made Lagos the hub of Nigeria's economy it is today not one greedy, corrupt Bola Tinubu.
Ojukwu's father was the richest man in Lagos before Nigeria's independence, Tinubu has not been born then, so stop all those nonsense thrash about Tinubu did this and that in Lagos.
And for this, Igbos grew to become the second largest tribe in Lagos after Yorubas, and Igbos contributed immensely to the development of Lagos state to what it is today. Igbos made Lagos the hub of Nigeria's movie industry all thanks to Alaba marketers. Igbos made Lagos the hub of automobile spare parts in Nigeria and west africa, all thanks to Ladipo used spare parts market and Trade Fair ASPAMDA brand new parts market.
Igbos made Lagos the hub of computer and phone markets, all thanks to Ikeja computer village. and so many others that you already know.
But instead of you ungrateful Yorubas to cherish Igbos, you rather became envious and suspicious of Igbo people's growth and success in Lagos to the extent you cowards started hallucinating that Igbos plan to take over Lagos and make it Igbo state, how?
Have you heard or seen where Biafra agitators mentioned Lagos as part of Igbo or Biafra before ? Igbos abandoned their wealth and propertiers in Lagos in 1966 and went back to Igbo land when the war broke out, did they drag Lagos with you Yorubas? They didn't care about their wealth in Lagos yet they abandoned to go build a new country of their own and what did you hateful Yorubas did? You joined Northerners to fight Igbos and forced them back to join you in destroying what you call Nigeria yet you wicked lots still have the guts to tell Igbos to go back to their region.
How many times have Igbos made efforts to secede from Nigeria peacefully to go form their own country so that you Yorubas can peacefully enjoy your Lagos and Nigeria with your beloved Northerners, yet whenever Igbos make such attempts it is you same hatefilled and wicked Yorubas that will be insulting Igbos and attacking them and calling Igbo land barren and yet you don't want to see the same Igbos you hate secede in peace so you Yorubas can then enjoy your Lagos paradise alone without this useless greedy Igbos.
Honestly most of you Yorubas are naturally wicked and ungrateful.
You claim Tinubu appointed Igbos into Lagos cabinet, what does that mean, does it add anything to Igbo people's individual success? He is only rewarding some fellow corrupt Igbos loyal to him not that he wants to help the generality of Igbos. And you want Igbos to appoint Yorubas and Northerners in Southeast states, how many Yorubas live in Southeast permanently or own estates, markets, schools, industries, firms, etc, etc in Igbo land? Or you want Igbo Governors to go to Oyo to appoint Yorubas that refused to go to Southeast to do business or establish companies and build mansions and help in developing Southeast to become Commissioners, on what basis?
Listen and listen well, Igbos have no interest in taking over Lagos. All the wealth and investments and properties Igbos own in Lagos, they are ready to forfeit it once you heartless ungrateful Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis allow Igbos to secede peacefully and go build their own country. Igbos are not afraid to start from the scratch again, but will you wicked souls allow that? NO!
Now because Igbos for the first time in history of Nigeria are massively supporting an Igbo Presidential candidate to help rebuild Nigeria from ruins that Buhari and his Yoruba political allies have plunged Nigeria into, you hatefilled Yorubas are bleeding from everywhere attacking Igbos, calling them names even when Igbos voted massively for Obasanjo a Yoruba man in 1999 and Anambra people voted massively for Abiola a Yoruba man in 1993 and even after Yorubas have produced President in 1976, 1999 and VP since 2015 you still don't want Igbos to have just one slot, you Yorubas still want to take Igbos turn while Igbos again sit down and clap for you.
God alone is the one that sees all these injustices and He will reward you all in your kind at the appointed time not long from now.
Igbos produced the last President and Head of State of Nigeria in 1966 while Yorubas have produced President and heads of stated in 1976 to 1979, 1999 to 2007, and now VP from 2015 to end in 2023. If anybody will be honest to themselves, between Igbos and Yorubas who should be desperate to produce the next President? Who should be accusing the other of hatred and trying to take their position in Nigeria?
ArewaNorth: If this were your MSc or PhD thesis you would be sentenced to death by hanging . I wonder how you people are deeply ignorant of history and always trying to write others history. The way you think about North, Hausa-Fulani is extremely out of this world. You don't know anything abt Islamic sects, linking it with tribe worsened your poorly written article. Mentioning Muhammad Marwa Maitatsine and Zakzaky movements completely portrayed your delusion!
Abi you want stone am, the way you did to Deborah for saying the obvious...
Stop displaying your terrorist tendency on a public forum..
TylerDurden: But your grandfathers fought a war to include Niger Delta in your OSU republic and till this day you call us fools for rightly rejecting your OSU republic.
That was then, as I said ,we don't need Niger Delta for anything today..
Niger Delta is the biggest loser in the Nigerian project...... The revenue that are being generating from oil from their region are used in developing SW and North, while their region is left with nothing..
SE gas is for Biafra use...... No region will benefit from it.
TylerDurden: Actually, you igbos are the number one unity beggers
Your Biafra agitation has been shown to be fake and geared only towards Niger Delta annexation .
You are the real parasites
Lol ! Says Afonja Muslim...... We don't need Niger Delta for anything , after all the said oil is fast becoming obsolete.. The world is moving away from oil into greener energy of which gas is one of them.......
Gas is the future,and of which SE has the largest deposit in Africa, so we don't need to annexed anyone into our sovereignty ,cos we has all it take to be a country,both mineral and human resources..
buhariguy: and idiotic pig can never rule Nigeria. They will wait till 2050
Yes , Ofcause they will rule themselves forever in Biafra republic forever, while Afonja Muslims pigs and their marauding fulani terrorist counterpart will continue their joint headslamming forever in Nijiara...
Don’t Return To South-East Nigeria From Abuja Without Nnamdi Kanu–IPOB Warns Igbo Elders, Politicians
The IPOB leader, Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 27, 2021 after he was rearrested in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned elders and politicians of from Southeast Nigeria who are based in Abuja, Nigeria's capital never to return to the region without its (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The IPOB leader, Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 27, 2021 after he was rearrested in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria.
Kanu has been facing trial on alleged treason and other offences filed by the government but the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, recently indicted Nigerian and Kenyan governments for Kanu’s arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention without due process.
Meanwhile, following the recent rising cases of terrorist attacks within and around Abuja, IPOB has increased its call for the release of Kanu as the group has alleged plot to attack and kill Kanu in detention.
In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB alleged that terrorists operating in Abuja and other Northern states have mapped out plans to move down to Southwest and Southeast to take over.
The statement read, “As terrorists and insecurity is gradually but surely taking over the Nigeria seat of power Abuja, we the global movement and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to remind the so-called elders and politicians of Igbo extraction of Biafra in Abuja never to return home to Biafraland without Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“It is crystal clear that these terrorists and jihadists after taking over the Zoo seat of power, will come down to the Western and Eastern Nigeria. The entire South is not safe anymore and there is urgent need for the entire South to restrategize and get the already infiltrated terrorists out of our territories without delay.
As there is fire on the mountain and Abuja is being encircled by terrorists, we advise Biafra politicians in Abuja never think of returning to South East Region without coming back with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. They must do all they could to ensure that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is back here in the East with them because Abuja is no more safe again.
“The land of Biafra and our ancestors will not spare them if they return to the East without Mazi Nnamdi Kanu being released unconditionally from the DSS custody.
“We have warned our people severally to understand that Fulani people have prepared to take over Nigeria and forcefully Islamise the country, they never listened. Now "Ugo Eberela na mgbagbu" the Eagles have patched at the point of killing in Nigeria and our people will not escape it without the assistance of IPOB and ESN Volunteers.
“All Eastern politicians, businessmen and women, traditional rulers, Senators and Federal House of Representatives, Religious men and women including Governors must ensure the urgent release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as ordered by the United Nations otherwise the land will not contain us and them.
“We have the records of those useful idiots that colluded with the zoo government to kidnap and extraordinarily renditioned Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria last year June. Unless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is unconditionally released and compensated for the flagrant violation of his fundamental human rights as directed by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, those useful idiots and their generations will have no place in the land.
“But if you people fail to heed to this peaceful advice, we shall also never heed to your plea when the jungle matures. Our people and Nigeria should understand that the peace of Nigeria and especially that of the East lies with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
A stitch in time saves nine. We are warning ahead of time. A word is enough for the wise.”
Femifasola: But you said earlier that ipob has stopped sit at home. Lmao. Confused urchin
The most confused are chronic unity begging like you goons that can't do without Ndigbo in Nigeria....
Very thing will be normalize in SE , soon as the Fulani Jihadist government comply with the UN ordered for the release of Nnamdi Kanu in a space of six months, and of which they have no choice but to comply.
NigeriaIsGreat: Election will not hold in that barren land
Yet , you can't imagine your pathetic life without those from the Imaginery barren land...... The actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra is at hand..
UN Report: Nnamdi Kanu family flays Coalition of Northern Groups Described statement as meaningless
The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has flayed the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) over her statement on the recent United Nations (UN) Rights Group’s call for the unconditional release of Kanu, describing it as meaningless.
The CNG had in a press conference in Abuja at the weekend, rejected the call by the UN for the unconditional release of the IPOB leader, Kanu, accusing the world body of bias.
IPOB, earlier, had in its entirety, condemned the statement credited to CNG, describing it as laughable, disgraceful and unguarded.
In a release on behalf of the Kanu family, Kanunta Kanu said they see the statement as a meaningless diatribe that comports with the self-deception and self-delusion that has guided the so-called CNG since the present era.
Unconditional release: FG knows it can’t dare UN, IPOB tells Northern groups
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described as laughable, disgraceful and unguarded the statement credited to the Northern Coalition Group (NCG) on the United Nations Working Group on Human Rights and Arbitrary Detention’s recent demand for the unconditional release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB, which stated this yesterday in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that NCG is a faceless Northern group that only displayed its idiocy and absolute ignorance in the attack and warning to the United Nations’ arm.
The CNG had on Friday in Abuja at a press conference rejected the call by the UN for the unconditional release of the IPOB leader, Kanu, accusing the world body of bias in its disposition towards certain regions of the country
But IPOB replying the group noted that the NCG statement showed how undemocratic and lawless the members are.
“It is not far from the truth that the … government in Nigeria sponsored this faceless Northern group to attack the UN decisions. They want to test the reactions of the international community.
The world must understand that Fulani people are parasites in Nigeria who are bent on hijacking indigenous people’s ancestral lands and resources in Nigeria, but IPOB won’t allow them. They have hijacked strategic positions in Nigerian government, have deliberately and tactically weakened the Nigeria military while empowering the Fulani terrorists to take over Nigerian government structure and then seize the ancestral lands of all the indigenous people.
IPOB said that the statement by the Northern group attacking the United Nations showed that the members of the group are demented and do not know that “the United Nation’s opinion is not the same as the Nigeria court orders they flout at will,” adding that “attacking United Nations’ opinion shows how clueless, uninformed and inconsequential they are.
”The pro-Biafra group pointed out that the United Nations is the final arbiter in the world, saying that no ranting and undemocratic nature can change the decision of the UN.
“This faceless NCG thinks that they have the temerity to challenge United Nations’ opinion on its core mandate in sanctioning tyrants and human rights abusers in the world,” it said, wondering when the Northern group has become the Federal Government’s spokespersons.
For Nigeria Government to have kept mute since the order from United Nations means they knew what they have entered into. They don’t want to say anything that will go contrary to UN’s decisions as a government. Instead this motley of uninformed Northern elements came out to publicise their ignorance and cluelessness to the world. They don’t know what United Nations stands for in the comity of nations,” IPOB said.`
Tingotoe: I trust Buhari to turn a deaf ear to the UN rights group and by the way it's not the UN that asked the FG to release Kanu but it's human rights organization, and this group has made dozens of such demands on various nation states to release various political prisoners' jailed over the years. All have fallen on deaf ears. They will most likely be ignored
Keep living in delusions....
Clear your myopic mind with this video below, chronic unity beggar..
Ruggedniggaone: UN should allow Nigeria law to settle kanu matter.can toothless UN tell US or RUSSIA to release someone that is undergoing trial? Nigeria is a sovereign state and Nigeria law should be allowed to take care of kanu case
Says chronic unity beggar...... The decision to release him unconditionally is binding to to your Jihadist government..
The bone of contention here is the manner at which Kanu was arrested and extradites to Nigeria without following the international law of extradition and rendition.
The illiterate Fulani Jihadist government is on hot soup
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