Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called
on the United Nations mission to Nigeria and other global authorities to
prevail on the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari to produce
their leader, Nnamdi Kanu whose whereabout has remained unknown following the
invasion of his home a fortnight ago by Nigerian security forces.
The group also maintains that Kanu’s mother
and father are still missing after the attack on their home which left no fewer
than 28 persons dead.
A statement signed by Emma Powerful, the
spokesman of the group reads in part, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who incidentally holds
British citizenship has been missing since a detachment of exclusively Northern
officers stormed his residence on Thursday 14, September 2017. Ever since this brutal assault that left 28
dead inside his compound including two of his cousins, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu along
with his parents His Royal Majesty Eze Israel Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Nmeme Kanu
has not been seen. The video footage of the assault and the extent of
destruction wreaked on his family home is in the public domain. Video clips and
photographs of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s bedroom riddled with bullet holes from the
guns of the Nigerian soldiers that stormed the palace are evident till today.”
Regretting that the invading soldiers
plundered the home of Kanu vandalizing, looting and stealing everything they
could lay their hands on, IPOB said that from inception of the Python Dance II
against the unarmed Biafran populations, many young men have been killed by the
soldiers with many more unlawfully detained and hundreds missing.
The statement further read: “What the world is
witnessing is a well orchestrated and premeditated mass slaughter of unarmed
civilians with the consent of South East governors. That Umahi, Ikpeazu,
Okorocha, Obiano and Ugwuanyi acquired the cover of Python Dance II to unleash
state terrorism against unarmed people is an indictment on the predatory brand
of politics Biafrans are forced to endure.
“The deceptive lying Lai Mohammed can twist
the facts all he likes but the fact remains that somebody somewhere ordered the
unprovoked military invasion of Kanu’s house where hundreds of rounds of
bullets were discharged and 28 people killed. These are facts that no amount of
carefully choreographed performances and pronouncements by Buratai, Lai
Mohammed and the South East governors, can easily bury.”
IPOB explained that before the invasion of his
house, Kanu was seen chatting with people; but after the military attack on his
bedroom, he has not been seen till date.
“It is the duty of sensible and civilised
nations to ask Buhari, Buratai and the killer governors of the South East what
they did with our leader because we will not stop until justice is done. The
world has a moral duty and obligation to put an end to evil dictatorial regimes
such as we are all witnessing in Nigeria today”, Emma Powerful wrote.
Source: newtelegraphonline.com
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