IPOB fumes as court allegedly adjourns Nnamdi Kanu's case

he Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Saturday, July 8, accused the federal government and the judiciary attempts scuttle the trial of its leaders Nnamdi Kanu. The IPOB said the federal government and the judiciary are playing politics with the trail of its leader and three others detained in Kuje Prison.

A statement signed by the IPOB's media and publicity secretary Emma Powerful said it discovered that the federal government has postponed the hearing of the matter scheduled for Tuesday, July 11 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Powerful said: "All the Federal Government and her security operatives especially the DSS are doing is abducting and torturing those suspected to be IPOB members to write an incriminating and confessional statements against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members in order to establish a case without prove." TWe understand that the Federal Government, DSS and Judiciary have no case against our leader and other members of IPOB who are under their custody therefore, we urge the attorney General of the Federation to release those under their custody unconditionally because they have no case to answer. The hearing were to commence on Tuesday 11th July 2017 but the DSS brought in Bright Chimezie who has been granted unconditional bail and compensation of N5 million by Federal High Court Uyo in Akwa Ibom to delay the commencement of the case," Powerful alleged. He said: "This is a Northern prosecution of Easterners who are Biafrans. They have continued with the 1967-70 war against Biafra but only the different is that this time they are using Fulani Attorney General of the Federation, Fulani prosecutor and a Fulani judge to deal our people." He added that it is unfortunate that the the people from the South-East and South-South region of the country are yet to understand the contraption of the British government in Nigeria. He said: "We are calling on all the men and Women of good conscience around the globe, Human Right Watch, Amnesty International and other relevant human rights organizations to prevail on Nigeria Government and her Judicial commission to release Bright Chimezie who have been granted bail by the court of competent jurisdiction and others still in detention centers across the country because they committed no crime against Nigeria state or any human being."