₦airaland Forum

austin2all:
Bubu still confused since 1984
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danot1030:
[s]if una like make una turn south east to another war zone like North East, Nigeria dey campe![/s]

danot1030:
[s]Oh, I can see that IPOB is a political movement not about the realisation a biafra nation, it is a movement against APC government which indicate that if PDP has remained in government the IPOB agitation won't have surfaced. Kanu ape lewon, and more IPOB mumu youth should be ready to go to their early grave. Mtchew[/s]

Ponponkon:
That man is a good orator.

AFOLABI SOTUNDE/REUTERS

https://d.europe.newsweek.com/en/full/49264/biafra-supporter-nnamdi-kanu-cries-during-rally.jpg?w=480&q=80
A Biafra supporter cries during a rally in support of Nnamdi Kanu in Abuja, December 1, 2015. Dutch lawyers have filed a case against Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for alleged crimes against humanity against pro-Biafran activists.


The pro-Biafran activist group led by the imprisoned Nnamdi Kanu has filed a complaint against Muhammadu Buhari in The Hague, accusing the Nigerian president of war crimes.

Thousands of people in southeast Nigeria have demonstrated in recent months, demanding independence for Biafra. Kanu, the leader of one of the most prominent activist groups—the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—was arrested by Nigerian security forces in October 2015 on charges of ethnic incitement and sedition. He remains in detention and was refused bail by a federal high court in the capital Abuja on Friday.

Goran Sluiter, a lawyer at Dutch human rights legal firm Prakken d’Oliveira, filed the complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Friday. Sluiter tells Newsweek that there has been “an intensification of violence and crimes committed against Biafrans since Mr Buhari became the Nigerian president.”


There have been numerous reports of pro-Biafran protesters being killed in clashes with Nigerian security forces during demonstrations. More than 20 protesters and two police officers have been killed since October 2015, AP reported, with about 200 people detained across the country. Inspector General Solomon Arase, Nigeria’s chief of police, warned protesters in December to stop their activities or face “the full weight of the law.”

“Nigeria is already a long time on the agenda of the [ICC] prosecutor and Nigerian courts are not dealing at all with these crimes. The time really has come for the ICC to act,” says Sluiter.

The complaint was filed on behalf of 17 unnamed victims and alleges to set out evidence of crimes against humanity—including torture and murder—committed by Nigerian security forces against pro-Biafran protesters.

Ndubuisi Osuala, the coordinator of IPOB’s branch in the Netherlands—which he says numbers around 200 official members—says the group wishes to see Kanu released and Buhari prosecuted for overseeing crimes against Biafrans. “What every IPOB member, every Biafran citizen wants is the release of our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is a freedom fighter,” says Osuala. “Secondly, we need the International Criminal Court to bring justice and equity to our case…[President Buhari] has to be prosecuted and face the justice for what he did.”

Osuala also says that his group wants independence for Biafra but is seeking it by peaceful means. “We need to get freedom by peace and that is why we are protesting,” he says. “We are not terrorists, we are not killing people.”

Buhari has previously refused calls for Kanu to be released, describing the activist—who is based in the U.K. and runs the underground media outlet Radio Biafra— as a flight risk.

Femi Adesina, a media advisor to Buhari, declined to comment on the ICC case and told Newsweek that while Kanu’s case was ongoing, the Nigerian presidency would rather not comment on the matter.

The ICC was not immediately available to confirm that the complaint had been filed. Once a complaint is filed at the ICC, the prosecutor can decide to open an investigation if there is a reasonable basis for believing that crimes against humanity have been committed. Nigeria is a signatory to the Rome Statute, upon which the ICC’s jurisdiction in based.

HiddenShadow:
You are funny and a complete double mouth
So crime against an ethnic group is permitted but against Nigeria is not.
Clap for yourself
Leopardd can you hear him

GstringAngela:
Bros, abeg does Court sessions hold on weekends? Tomorrow is a saturday

HiddenShadow:
Is that what the Judge said.?

Progressive01:
Treason is not a bailable offence. He should fire the new lawyer he hired today. The dude must be a clueless ineffectual buffoon that is totally ignorant of the letters of the law.

Arguing for Kanu’s release, Nnoruka Udechukwu, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), urged the court to release him, stating that the offence he was alleged to have committed was a bailable one. Udechukwu argued that the Criminal Justice Act, 2015, stipulated bail for anyone not accused of a capital offence. He said that the offence of which Kanu was accused was a “civil rights” issue, adding that the right to agitate is guaranteed in a democracy. “The right to agitate is inherent in a democracy. People must not be denied of their rights to protest by way of being kept in custody,” he said. “If national security was a ground to throw people into detention the Criminal Justice Act would have said so.” Making his own submission, Mohammed Diri, counsel to the federal government, said he was “seriously opposed to this application.”

Read more at: https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-court-denies-nnamdi-kanu-bail

HiddenShadow:
Someone should list the reasons giving by the court for rejecting Kanu's bail.

onatisi:
so until he kills somebody or bomb somewhere is when they should detain him? Inciting ppl to kill is lawful according to your own law? Well let the court decide

Bhella5:
So those ones are dead?

Brushless:
This is business and should not have anything to do with ethnic bigotry. If an Oba is involve in any scandal as this, he should go in for it afterall he doesn't share the loot with his subjects. More, that a bank is involved and the other party laid down its head for the hammer; it smells of pure fraud on the part of the Oba to have diverted the money. It has no other name than stealing.

bloomstar:
so as a graduate, u will go back to be trained in meson work..nawao for naija

Bhella5:
Bakasi boys? are they ipob too?

ikechu1278:
Oh yes you are the son a slave. You've always been slaves from bini to currently Hausa and Fulani people. A Slave will always be a slave. Look in the mirror and curse the sperm that bore you into this world.

Let me repeat myself, since each time even in your old Id you always calling this poor dein whenever you argue about agbor. I'm making things simplier for you. Claim all of am so at least your attache by force would be easier. Repeat after me: since I, irepagbor, is desperate to be from agbor, I'm the desecendant of all dein in agbor. Say it loud and say it proud. Foolish he goat