LEADER OF IPOB, KANU CLAIMS FALSE PERSECUTION

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has described his continued detention by the Federal Government as a gross violation of his human rights. According to him, he was ready to stand a fair trial and not persecution.

In a statement by one of his counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the Kanu who has filed a suit before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), against the violation of his rights, said he was wrongly arrested and put in detention.

According to Ejiofor, his client was unlawfully detained from October 14, 2015 till January 20, 2016, without any lawful orders of the court, and in flagrant disobedience of orders of courts of competent jurisdiction, all ordering his unconstitutional release and discharge, amounting to a gross violation of his fundamental human rights.