The Coalition of Igbo-British lawyers have issued 48hours to Nigerian government to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The group also condemned the illegal detention of Kanu by the Federal Government.
In a statement issued and signed by Attorney E.R Okoroafor on the 30th of June, at his Glasgow residence in the United Kingdom condemned the illegal and archaic manner in which the Kenyan Government acted in the illegal detention of Kanu.
“It is worthy to mention that MAZI NNAMDI KANU entered Kenya with his British passport, and the Kenya government is fully aware of his citizenship status but still went ahead to perpetrate their illegal act which does not only breach the personal human rights of Kanu but also undermine the sovereignty of the British government.
“While this serves as a pre-action notice to the Kenyan Government as we shall be heading to the International Criminal Court to rectify the injustice done as it is trite law that injustice to one is injustice to all.
” We are also by this medium informing the Nigerian government that they have 48hrs to return Kanu to the United Kingdom and if he has any charges to answer, they should as a nation that is governed by the constitution, pass through the legal means of filing an extradiction notice as failure to do so, we shall not hesitate to term this an a declaration of war on not only Kanu and IPOB but on all IGBOS generally, and this we shall vehemently resist with all apparatus of law available at our disposal.
“While all this is been done the Nigerian government is also been warned that no bodily harm whatsoever must be done to MAZI NNAMDI KANU to avoid a total breakdown of law and other in the fast crumbling entity called Nigeria.”, the statement read.
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