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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Bruce Fein, the United States-based lawyer of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has written to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
He warned the group not to sit on the legal fence, noting that Nigeria plans to imprison Kanu indefinitely without trial.
The letter dated May 31, 2022, was addressed to the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, George Obiozor, and made available to newsmen by Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Tuesday. Fein said, “silence is not acceptable”.
Kanu, a British citizen who leads the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been in detention since June 2021.
He was arrested in Kenya and has since been confined in the facilities of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja.
IPOB, which Kanu founded in 2014, is pressing for the secession of a part of southeast Nigeria where the majority of the population belongs to the Igbo ethnic group. Authorities view IPOB as a terrorist group.
IPOB says it wants to achieve independence through non-violent means.
An attempt by Igbo separatists to secede as the Republic of Biafra in 1967 – the year that Kanu was born – triggered a three-year civil war that killed more than 1 million people.
On May 30, Fein had written on his known Twitter handle: “Ohanaeze and President General Obiozor are Missing In Action (MIA) in demanding the release of MNK, one of their own, from indefinite solitary confinement by a terrorist Fulani government.
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They should be thundering like a hammer on an anvil. Silence from professed Biafran leaders is unacceptable.”
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