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(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Nigerian separatist group over the sale of aircraft the plaintiffs say will be used to persecute its supporters.

The two officials, who are the defendants in the case, said a federal court in Washington has no jurisdiction to address the claim brought by the Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, according to their motion submitted Oct. 18.

IPOB filed a complaint against the senior members of President Joe Biden’s cabinet in August, asking a judge to compel them to reverse the recently completed sale of a dozen A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to Nigeria’s air force. The secessionist movement’s complaint argued that the planes will be deployed against their sympathizers.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, which proscribed IPOB as a terrorist organization in 2017, accuses the group of waging a violent campaign against state personnel and assets. IPOB says it’s a peaceful movement working to establish an independent nation in southeastern Nigeria that will defend the Igbo ethnic group against discrimination by the federal government.

IPOB’s complaint said Blinken and Austin violated laws intended to protect civilians from harm caused by U.S. weapons in the possession of foreign security forces.

“It would be inappropriate for the court to weigh in on a sensitive foreign affairs matter,” the U.S. officials said in their response requesting the dismissal of the case.


https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/blinken-austin-seek-dismissal-of-nigerian-separatists-lawsuit

This is why US asks Nigeria to restrict the fighter jet to North..

Indeed IPOB is formidable

The jets will be use mostly in the North East.

It will be in the interest of the Nigerian state of this case is thrown out

Nna men, it seems like IPOB is now fighting Nigeria at the global diplomatic fronts.

For them to be doing all these at same time shows they're well funded and has millions of dollars at its disposal.

I don't see this roforofo fight ending anytime soon

Pikin (Nigeria) wey say him mama (Biafra) no go sleep, he too no go sleep

How dare this miscreants sure or harass the FG in a foreign land... how dare they....




You see with this attitude power will stay in the North



North2023 North2023 North2023

2021 is not 1966. Buhari came with mindset to annihilate kill and destroy Igbos, but little did he know that he is living in a fools paradise

Nigeria must devide

Malami charge will soon charge Nnamdi Kanu for this

Biafrarep:
Nna men, it seems like IPOB is now fighting Nigeria at the global diplomatic fronts.

For them to be doing all these at same time shows they're well funded and has millions of dollars at its disposal.

I don't see this roforofo fight ending anytime soon

Pikin (Nigeria) wey say him mama (Biafra) no go sleep, he too no go sleep

Majority of Biafrans abroad are in support of the movement. The remaining are against the FG.

This won't end well for the Nigeria FG.

Successionist:
This is why US asks Nigeria to restrict the fighter jet to North..

Indeed IPOB is formidable

And you believe the news that the United states said that the fighter jets should be restricted to the north

Na wa...do you think the jets were given free of charge??

Look at this bunch of confusionist hypocrite at it peak. Can't you read.

Successionist:
This is why US asks Nigeria to restrict the fighter jet to North..

Indeed IPOB is formidable

Successionist:
This is why US asks Nigeria to restrict the fighter jet to North..

Indeed IPOB is formidable

By the time we are done with the zoo called Nigeria,Nobody will be proud to be called a Nigerian~Mazi Nnamdi Kanu 2015


With truth i will destroy the zoo called Nigeria~Mazi Odogwu Nnamdi Kanu 2014




If they fail to give us Biafra,somalia will be a paradise to compare the zoo called Nigeria.It's not a threat but a promise~Mazi Nnamdi Kanu 2015.

I'm a proud Niger Deltan but honestly I respect Igbo's a lot.
Igbo's is to black Africa what Jews is to the Arab nation.
Put clearly, the whole of black Africa can't defeat them.

My reason: if they could be this powerful while still under the Nigerian federation, what do you think will happen if they have independence and sovereignty
Now I know why the world is afraid of Biafra.

I must marry an Igbo girl seriously.

johnmartus:
Look at this bunch of confusionist hypocrite at it peak. Can't you read.

pained yoruba Muslim... Igbo remain only formidable tribe in Nigeria.

thebosstrevor1:
And you believe the news that the United states said that the fighter jets should be restricted to the north

Na wa...do you think the jets were given free of charge??

They are already been warned, let them crossed the line given by US and see what happen...

It is glaring that the aircraft was bought against secessionist groups in Nigeria, especially IPOB...