The Indigenous Folks of Biafra, IPOB, has demanded an “quick clarification” from the British Govt for its failure to intrude within the “persecution and extended detention of its citizen, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in Nigeria”.
IPOB made the call for in a remark by way of its spokesman, Emma Robust, on Monday.
The professional-Biafra team famous that the United Kingdom Overseas, Commonwealth and Building Place of job, FCDO, had said that British nationals detained in another country would possibly require intervention when the world over authorized requirements don’t seem to be met or when prison complaints are subjected to unreasonable prolong.
“But, confronted with the grave violations in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case, Britain refuses to use its personal said coverage,” the remark stated.
The remark learn, “How does Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s remedy meet the world over authorized requirements of legality, due procedure and admire for basic human rights?
“How does the unlawful rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021 meet the world over authorized requirements, in particular when the UN Operating Crew on Arbitrary Detention, in Opinion No. 25/2022, referred to as for his quick unlock?
“How can his endured detention and the complaints that adopted be reconciled with the Courtroom of Attraction’s judgment of 13 October 2022, which discharged him on specified counts?
“How can Britain reconcile his conviction of 20 November 2025 with phase 36(12) of Nigeria’s Charter, when the underlying terrorism law have been repealed? Prong 1 of the Excellent Courtroom judgment made the lifestyles of an extant and subsisting statute a situation precedent to continuation of the complaints. That situation was once no longer glad: the price sheet didn’t expose an offence recognized to extant or subsisting regulation. The Excellent Courtroom judgment relied upon to justify continuation is below problem as having been delivered in step with incuriam.
“How can a conviction stand on a price sheet that discloses no offence below extant regulation and comprises counts up to now discharged by way of the Courtroom of Attraction, a awesome court docket to the Federal Prime Courtroom?
“How can Britain forget about the extended failure to listen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s pending attraction whilst claiming to oppose unreasonable prolong in prison complaints?”
Stressing that intervention isn’t interference, IPOB added, “Diplomatic representations relating to due procedure, basic human rights and unreasonable judicial prolong are official tools of consular and diplomatic engagement, no longer interference with judicial independence. Britain can not cover in the back of “non-interference” whilst its personal citizen faces grave violations of his rights.
“IPOB isn’t asking Britain to dictate the result of a Nigerian court docket continuing. We call for that Britain use its diplomatic leverage to press Nigeria to uphold legality, admire basic rights and make certain that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s pending attraction receives a suggested listening to.
“If the British Govt claims it can not—or is not going to—uphold its coverage to give protection to its citizen from state-sponsored persecution, absolutely the naked minimal it should do is locate its diplomatic leverage to compel Nigeria to checklist and listen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s pending attraction, together with all related fits throughout different tiers of court docket, with out additional prolong.”
In keeping with the pro-Biafra team, by way of refusing to call for even the fundamental scheduling of an attraction, Britain strikes from passive indifference to lively complicity.
It subsequently recommended the British govt to make use of diplomatic leverage to press Nigeria to checklist and listen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s pending attraction and all related fits around the related judicial tiers with out additional prolong.
“Britain should now make a choice: translate its said dedication to protective its voters into significant motion, or divulge that dedication as empty rhetoric when a British citizen of Biafran descent wishes that coverage maximum,” the remark stated.