Tension is hovering in the South-East geopolitical zone, over the continual detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
This came as a group of Human Rights Activists, under the aegis of Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, CHRSJ, on Monday, September 19, threw its weight behind the open protest slated for Friday this week, by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, against President Muhamamdu Buhari.
The group described the incarceration as, “illegal and unconstitutional, which must be stopped at all cost.”
Recall, that IPOB had lamented the long detention, torture and likely death of Kanu in Kuje Maximum Prison, Abuja.
As a result, IPOB had called on all Igbos, and all those who believed in the Biafra ideology in the country, to sit-at-home and shutdown their businesses on Friday, September 23, in protest.
The Activists were drawn from: The Christian Awareness Mission Group, CAMG, Passengers Fundamental Rights Group, PATRGIA, the Islamic Political Awareness Group, TIPAG, Centre for Social Justice and Equity of Nigeria, CESJEN, Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEOS, Veteran Groups for Operation Clean Crusade, VGOCC, Apata-Aiyeraye Social Political Volunteer Group, ASPVG, De-Mainstream Independent Group, DMIG, and Coalition Against Illegal Arrest & Unlawful Detention.
Others were: Centre for Constitutional Rights and Counter Corruption Crusader, Save Lagos Group, SLG ,The Conscience Mainstream, TCM, African Masses Voices for Survival, AMVS, The Christians Youths for the Peoples’ Rights and Development, CYPRD, Islamic Movement for Muslims’ Rights, IMMR, Divine Nigerians Liberators for Peoples’ Fundamental Rights, DNLPFR, and The Christians Volunteers Groups for Good Governance in Nigeria, TCVGGGN.
Speaking on behalf of the group, its Coordinating Leader, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, in a statement declared their total support for the proposed peaceful protest to be embarked upon by the members of the IPOB, in demanding the unconditional release of Biafra Radio Director (Kanu), from the custody of the Federal Government.
It strongly condemned the illegal continued detention of Kanu, which it stated that was against the principles of democracy, that gives the citizens freedom to assemble and express his or her opinion, without any hindrance, showing concern on what may happen on the continued detention of the Biafra Leader.
It then called on all lovers of democracy in Nigeria and Diaspora to guide against using brute force of despotic days of military era on the innocent citizens of the country by Buhari’s government, describing the proposed protest as a welcome development in the right direction.
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