February 06 2025 | State Media By the affirmation of the decision of the Federal High Court proscribing Indigenous People of Biafra a terr...
February 06 2025 | State Media
By the affirmation of the decision of the Federal High Court proscribing Indigenous People of Biafra a terrorist group and dismissing the appeal for lack of merit on 30th January, 2025, the Appeal Court of Nigeria has ridiculed justice and equity with commercial systems of judicial control as manipulated by APC Executive government of Nigeria.
In delivering their judgement the presiding judge states that the activities of IPOB predicts security threat to the nation. How does peaceful protest by unarmed IPOB protesters with placards and peaceful rallies constitute threat to security of Nigeria?
IPOB is an organization seeking self-determination by legal means, how has this become an act of terrorism? What proof of terrorism was placed before the court that convicts IPOB?
This judgement contravenes the said same laws of Nigeria and I begin to question the sanctity of the rule of law in Nigeria. There are some provisions by the rule of law as stated in the constitution for proscription of any organization but these conditions were not met before IPOB was proscribed.
A critical analysis of this judgement shows clearly that the court is in clear contradiction with what the law says will happen.
This judgement emanated from chronic hatred and calculated plans of Nigeria government and cheap slave Igbo politicians to destroy the movement that will emancipate an average Biafran and Nigerian people from age long slavery.
It is laughable that the so-called Nigeria Judiciary will wake up one day and declare an indigenous people a terrorist group without proof of any act of terrorism or anybody being charged or convicted of terrorism. And the leader of the same group was serially acquitted and discharged by the same proscribing court.
IPOB simply means "Indigenous People of Biafra". IPOB is duly and legally registered and recognized in over 108 counties of the world and IPOB as a group is part of the government of the host countries. IPOB and its members are law abiding thus has entered Guinness Book of Records as the group with greatest number of peaceful protests, a noble honour which they still hold to date.
Nigeria as a country has employed all within their arsenal to lobby different communities of the world to tag IPOB a terrorist group to no avail. They used their slave corrupt Igbo politicians who created and nurtured different militant groups and infiltrators and assigned them to carry out all sorts of illegal acts in the name of IPOB/ESN only to indict Mazi Nnamdi KANU, IPOB and ESN, but all their efforts proved abortive.
From all indications APC led Nigeria government is running out of time to destroy IPOB which is a clear reason for jumping onto the fast lane of using court to sideline due processes and protocols and proscribed a whole Indigenous nation only to bring IPOB down and jail their leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu despite the fact that this same court vindicated Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of these fabricated and unexciting charges against him and his group IPOB.
Yet the court went on and labelled them terrorist without proof. It's now evident that the script to crush IPOB is playing as uncovered in the statement of Nigeria military. According to them, "appeal court has given them morale to crush and destroy IPOB", a peaceful group that has never hurt a fly.
Nigeria military has never won any war on record, not even against ordinary terrorist in the Northern part of Nigeria, the real terrorists have upper hand in the North killing Nigeria soldiers like Christmas fowl and no bandit have been arrested and prosecuted talk more of proscribing them but here they are tigers against unarmed peaceful IPOB members. The fraudulent pronouncement of the appeal court is irrelevant and holds no water at all.
Written by:
Oliver Tambo
For: Abia State Media
Edited by:
Nkechi Onuoha
For: Abia State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Abia State Media
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