US Rights Groups Demand Nnamdi Kanu’s Release

Three United States-based quality rights and self-determination advocacy organisations person called for the contiguous merchandise of the person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

The groups besides criticised President Bola Tinubu implicit his Independence Day remarks, successful which helium reportedly equated IPOB with the violent radical Boko Haram.

In a associated connection issued by Dr. Sylvester Onye, president of Advocates for Victims of Injustice and Discrimination (AVID), connected behalf of Rising Sun and Ambassadors for Self-Determination, the organisations described the president’s comments arsenic “prejudicial and sub judice.”

According to them, the examination of IPOB to Boko Haram was inappropriate, particularly arsenic IPOB’s ineligible entreaty remains earlier the Supreme Court of Nigeria, portion its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, continues to look proceedings astatine the Federal High Court.

The groups argued that the president should alternatively absorption connected addressing the broader information challenges facing Nigeria.

“Rather than fixating connected IPOB – a non-violent self-determination movement, President Tinubu should nonstop his attraction to convulsive equipped groups who proceed to displace communities and instrumentality lives crossed Nigeria,” the connection noted.

They further maintained that the continued detention of Kanu would not trim his power among his supporters.

“Every further time of his detention lone magnifies his stature,” they added.

The advocacy groups besides called connected the United States Congress and the U.S. Department of State to intimately show Nigeria’s governance and guarantee that antiauthoritarian principles are upheld.

In addition, they urged the planetary assemblage to condemn what they described arsenic “prejudicial utterances” by President Tinubu against IPOB.

The organisations demanded the unconditional merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu, citing erstwhile tribunal rulings successful his favour, and called for Nigerian leaders to beryllium held accountable for what they described arsenic “ethnic persecution nether the guise of nationalist security.”