The following news report from The Guardian, Lagos, Nigeria, 15 August 2016, is forwarded unedited: The Editor, “IPOB ties peace deal to Kanu’s freedom”, The Guardian, Lagos, Monday 15 August 2016(Nnamdi Kanu: ... leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and freedom broadcaster, Radio Biafra ... must be released unconditionally)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
has declared that there cannot be genuine peace in the country unless their
leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is unconditionally released.
Restates pact with Niger Delta Avengers
IPOB also reiterated its partnership with the Niger Delta
Avengers, saying that both organs are inseparable in their quest for Biafra
restoration: “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby categorically state
that we and our brothers, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), are inseparable in
our quest for Biafra restoration,” IPOB said in a joint statement signed by
Emma Nmezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya yesterday. The statement continues:
“Just as NDA stated in their demands, which the Nigerian
government is very much aware of, but has chosen to ignore, there will be no
negotiation if there is no freedom for the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Nigeria will avert imminent doom only if Buhari is
compelled by civilised nations to obey existing court orders and release Nnamdi
Kanu unconditionally… South-South and South-East are united in this noble quest
for freedom and no amount of media manipulation can alter this fact.
“If only Buhari knows who Nnamdi Kanu truly is or
the amount of influence he commands among the people of South-East and
South-South, he won’t listen to lies…”
IPOB, which disclosed that its lawyers spoke out of
tune in a recent press conference, stressed that they were also aware that a
certain South-East governor had been working as front for the Presidency to
penetrate and compromise IPOB’s governance structure and its lawyers.
The group alleged that some of the lawyers retained
by it are currently undergoing investigations by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) on land case settled years ago so as to unsettle them
sufficiently and make them become informants for government.
IPOB further alleged that the move was to undermine
the legal defence of its leader, as was the case with Vincent Obetta: “We are
aware of the grand conspiracy orchestrated by this governor to penetrate IPOB
by any means.”
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