Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has issued a stern warning to the public, organizations, media outlets, and government bodies to cease referring to IPOB as a terrorist organization. This warning was conveyed by Kanu’s legal team on Friday.
In a statement signed by Aloy Ejimakor, Esq., acting under Kanu’s direct instructions, the legal team threatened legal action against anyone continuing to label IPOB as a terrorist group. The statement emphasized, “Henceforth, any further reference to IPOB as a terrorist organization will be met and countervailed with a muscular litigation and other lawful measures, regardless of who the entity is.”
The statement referenced a ruling by a competent High Court in Nigeria, which declared the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organization by the Buhari administration to be illegal, discriminatory, and unconstitutional. “This is because there is a subsisting Judgment of a competent High Court in Nigeria (attached herewith) which ruled that IPOB’s proscription/declaration as a terrorist group by Buhari is illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional,” the statement read.
Kanu’s legal team further argued that those calling IPOB a terrorist organization have failed to provide any evidence of the group engaging in terrorist activities. “Additionally, those calling IPOB a terrorist organization have not adduced a scintilla of evidence that IPOB has ever engaged in any terrorist activity. This is underscored by the verifiable fact that since the so-called proscription of IPOB in 2017, no single alleged IPOB member has been convicted of any terrorist act, despite thousands of arrests, abductions, horrendous torture, false flags and extrajudicial killings levied against its alleged members.”
The legal team urged the general public, the Presidency, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police, and media organizations to immediately cease using defamatory and prejudicial labels to describe IPOB.
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