By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised alarm over the incessant attacks and killings going on in Nigeria, especially in the South-East Region.

It demanded that Nigeria should set a date to conduct referendum to give Biafrans the opportunity to determine whether or not they want to continue to be part of the union and the mistake of 1914.

The group in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, requested world leaders, men and women of good conscience across the world to ask the Nigeria and Kenya governments why they are yet to give clarification on how its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was abducted in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria.

The statement partly reads: “Their inability to explain how our leader was abducted and renditioned to Nigeria has only confirmed their culpability in the whole saga no matter how clever they think they are in denying any involvement.

“It’s a known rule that airports across the world are safe place for all law abiding citizens. But Kenya has allowed its International airport to serve as abduction ground for the oppressive Nigerian Government that kidnapped our leader who traveled to Kenya with British passport.

“This is nothing but travesty of justice should our leader be put on trial without first clarifications on his unlawful kidnap and rendition. DSS should explain its role in our leader’s abduction and rendition. IPOB will not relent in fighting this injustice against innocent citizens.

“In Nigeria today, many innocent men and women are being kidnapped, tortured and locked up by DSS and other security agencies for weeks, months and in some cases for years without taking them to court. Many people have died in the process. Many of them are being held in solitary confinements and locked up in secret cells all over Nigeria security facilities without people knowing their whereabouts.

“These detention centres have turned into Abattoir where detainees are killed and their organs harvested and sold to the highest bidder by the wicked security operatives. Detention facilities of the various security agencies have become another abattoir where they slaughter human beings like cows. It’s horrible that security agents who are supposed to protect them have become their worst nightmare.

“In fact, there is no difference between the detention cells of the Nigeria security agencies particularly the DSS and Army cells and the Nazi Gestapo detention camps during the second world war.

“We are therefore, calling on the international community to ask Nigeria government and Kenya government to explain their roles in the abduction and extra ordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria.”

The group insisted that Kanu did not jump any bail or commit any crime known to law to warrant being treated like a criminal.

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