By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned media houses still publishing that its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, jumped bail to desist from peddling falsehood and distortion of facts.

IPOB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, said that if its leader truly jumped bail, that a court of competent jurisdiction would not have ordered the federal government and the Army to pay him N1 billion compensation and make a public apology to him in three National Newspapers for violating his Fundamental Human Rights.

Recall that an Abia State High Court had in a judgement on January 19, 2022, indicted the federal government and the Nigeria Army over the military invasion of the Afaraukwu Ibeku home of IPOB leader in September 2017.

The court, in its judgment, held that Nnamdi Kanu has, by credible evidence, proved to the court that his Fundamental rights to dignity of human person and personal liberty were wantonly violated, and his fundamental rights to life threatened brazenly by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The statement partly read: “So, it will be wrong for any person to continue to claim or write that Kanu jumped bail. Such amounts to contempt of court and we will not hesitate to take legal action against any media platform, print, electronic or blog that continues with such falsehood.

“If our leader truly jumped bail, a court of competent jurisdiction would not have ordered the federal government and the Army to pay him N1billion compensation and make a public apology to him in three National Newspapers for violating his Fundamental Human Rights.

“IPOB is not an unlawful organisation and will not be because Nigerian court said so and we will not take it lightly with anybody trying to give us a fake identity.”

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