OUR POSITION ON NNAMDI KANU- BRITISH GOVT
The British High Commission in Nigeria, said yesterday, that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, stood ready to provide consular assistance on the issue of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s British nationality.
Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was re-arrested abroad, brought back home and re-arraigned by the Federal Government on Tuesday and thereafter detained by the Department of State Services, DSS, on court order.
The UK assistance pledge is coming as the Kanu matter caused uneasy calm in the South-East, with the IPOB leader’s family protesting what it called the ‘abduction’ of their son from Kenya to Nigeria, describing it as a violation of international law and basic principles of the rule of law.
The IPOB, yesterday, also alleged that its leader was abducted, not intercepted or arrested as claimed by the Federal Government of Nigeria, saying it will expose the details of his alleged abduction.
In Imo, Kanu’s travails have split the leaders as well as followers of the IPOB just as Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former aviation minister and a close ally of Kanu, cautioned the Nigerian government over the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, saying the IPOB leader must not die in custody.
Also yesterday, the World Igbo Congress, WIC, urged the United Kingdom to defend Kanu, its citizen, against illegal abduction and extradition.
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has commended the Federal Government on its move so far, saying, the government is capable of handling the matter.
