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Detained IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu
The family of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has decried the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer’s continued silence over the detention of their son who is a British citizen, in Nigeria.
A statement by Kanu’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu on behalf of the family, said it is baffling that the UK Prime Minister, a human right lawyer by profession would keep such studied silence over the detention of Kanu in Nigeria over offence he allegedly committed in the UK.
Kanunta said it was wrong for Mr. Starmer to be silent over Kanu’s incarceration, unless he was trying to toe the lines of his predecessors including the former PM Harold Wilson who he alleged to have supervised the death of over three million Biafrans during the Nigerian civil war.
“The UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, you are a Human Right Lawyer by profession, you can’t be silent in the persecution of my brother Nnamdi Kanu, a Biafra/British citizen for a crime he allegedly committed in the UK.
“Unless if you have decided to follow the same foot steps of your predecessors including the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson that supervised the death of over three million Biafran’s during Biafra/Nigeria genocidal war between 1967 to 1970”.
Questioning why the UK Government always turn its back, when things got to do with Biafra, Kanunta recalled that on December 15, 2023 the Supreme Court sent back his brother’s case to the Federal High Court for trial.
“For avoidance of doubt, that was not the only decision the Supreme Court made. It also decided that his bail should not have been revoked and it went on to state clearly that the judge exhibited significant and unacceptable bias by revoking his bail.
“In a sane society, one would expect that when the High court received his case from the Supreme Court and hankered down for trial, it was also duty-bound to restore his bail in line with the pronouncement of the apex court. But that did not happen.”
The family said but instead, “the Court connived with the federal government to continue Nnamdi Kanu’s detention in violation of Section 287 of the Nigerian Constitution while they plotted to railroad him through an unfair trial that already has a predetermined verdict”, Kanunta stated. (Daily Sun)
