No bombs, guns, attack plans – IPOB reacts to evidence presented against Nnamdi Kanu

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the alleged incriminating grounds the Nigerian authorities presented astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja against its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB said the items presented amusement that the Nigerian authorities has nary grounds to enactment its accusations against Kanu.

The radical said nary bombs, guns, grenades, oregon onslaught plans were recovered oregon presented against Kanu.

Kanu is presently facing charges bordering connected coercion earlier the tribunal presided implicit by Justice James Omotosho.

During today’s proceedings, the prosecution presented its witnesser to attest against Kanu.

Some items—such arsenic 4 boxes containing Kanu’s idiosyncratic belongings, wristwatches, a microphone, a transmitter, cables, Arabian perfumes purchased for his parent and mother-in-law, a brownish shoe, laptops, chargers, and phones—were besides presented successful court.

Dismissing the items presented, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, successful a connection said: “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) privation to code the planetary assemblage pursuing the tribunal proceedings contiguous astatine the Federal High Court, presided implicit by Justice Omotosho, successful the proceedings of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Today, the prosecution presented what they claimed to beryllium ‘incriminating evidence’ against Mazi Kanu, a British national and the person of IPOB, to warrant their long-standing persecution of him and the proscription of our movement. To the daze and dismay of each present, including planetary observers, the alleged grounds consisted of 4 boxes containing Mazi Kanu’s idiosyncratic belongings: wristwatches, a microphone, a DJ mixer (falsely labeled a transmitter), cables, Arabian perfumes purchased for his parent and mother-in-law, a brownish shoe, laptops, chargers, and phones. No bombs, guns, grenades, oregon onslaught plans were found—because nary exist. This revelation lays bare the truth: determination is nary grounds to enactment the sedate accusations leveled against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“The items presented successful tribunal are not weapons of coercion but mean possessions of a antheral who has consistently and openly declared his ngo arsenic a state combatant dedicated to the liberation of his radical done peaceful means, including a referendum. Since his apprehension successful October 2015, Mazi Kanu has boldly and unapologetically stated his God-given purpose—to alleviate the suffering of the Igbo contention and different taste groups successful Biafraland.

“His resoluteness was reiterated adjacent nether duress, arsenic evidenced successful the interrogation videos we impulse the Nigerian authorities to merchandise for nationalist scrutiny.

“We commend the beingness of representatives from the United Kingdom authorities successful tribunal today, witnessing firsthand the baseless quality of the charges against their citizen. We besides explicit our profound gratitude to Mazi Kanu’s caller defence team, fortified with immoderate of the finest ineligible minds, for their unwavering committedness to information and justice.

“With the utmost humility, IPOB calls connected the Federal Government of Nigeria and the United Kingdom to extremity this charade masquerading arsenic a trial. The persecution of Mazi Kanu and IPOB, which has led to the nonaccomplishment of countless lives, including his parents, indispensable cease. We bash not question to humiliate immoderate enactment but to affirm that IPOB’s ngo is rooted successful the pursuit of dignity, freedom, and a amended beingness for Biafrans, the achromatic race, and Africa arsenic a whole.

“The lack of immoderate incriminating grounds contiguous underscores what we person ever maintained: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a violent but a noble advocator for the oppressed. We impulse each stakeholders to recognise this information and enactment toward a conscionable resolution. Let america physique a aboriginal wherever the aspirations of each peoples are respected, and the dignity of beingness is upheld for everyone.”