In letter addressed to Office of the United Nations
Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais des Nations CH-1211, Geneva 10,
Switzerland, a team of IPOB international lawyers based in US and Nigeria have
petitioned UN, US and Russia over the invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s residence and
the recent tension in south-East Nigeria.
The group also claimed Nnamdi Kanu’s rights to freedom of
speech, association and religion, has also been violated.
The petition seeks the intervention of the UN human rights
arm in the crisis in South-East Nigeria. The team of the US-based lawyers led
by Bruce E. Fein, W. Bruce DelValle, alongside their Nigerian-based Attorney,
Aloy Ejimakor, approached the UN human rights on behalf of the IPOB leader,
IPOB members and pro-Biafra agitators.
Here an excerpt from the letter;
On behalf of the 50 million Igbo people of Nigeria,
organized under the umbrella of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by
Nnamdi Kanu, the Nelson Mandela of Nigeria, this office together with Nigerian
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor (IPOB general counsel) calls your attention to the
Nigerian government’s authorized shootings and killings of Mr. Kanu’s guests at
his home by elements of Nigerian Army late Sunday, September 10, 2017.
We are convinced the Nigerian government intended to
assassinate Mr Kanu because of his Igbo ancestry, Judaic religion, and
political views. It’s nefarious designs were thwarted by the unanticipated
presence of numerous visitors to Mr Kanu at the time of his scheduled
extrajudicial murder by the Nigerian Army under colour of Nigerian law.
According to 10 credible Nigerian newspaper reports, many of
the visitors were seriously wounded in the Army attack. Fatalities have been
reported. Due to the developing nature of this incident, definitive information
is unavailable at this time. But enough is known to justify an international
response to prevent convulsion in Nigeria that would threaten international
peace and security.
The whereabouts of the Biafran leader is still unknown.
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