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Stop ‘political persecution’ of Nnamdi Kanu, group tells Buhari
Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA, has said President Muhammadu Buhari should stop “persistent political persecution” of Mr Nnamdi Kanu.
Kanu, the director of the Europe based Radio Biafra and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, has been in detention over alleged treasonable offence. His detention has sparked several protests by the people of South-East Nigeria, majorly youths, with many of them allegedly murdered in brutality by Nigerian security forces.
However, HURIWA, a pro-democracy Non-Governmental Organisation group, in a statement jointly endorsed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affaires Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, said the reported success of yesterday’s “stay-at-home” order by IPOB, and its affiliates in the South East, was a “clear demonstration that it was now more than ever urgent that meaningful and constructive dialogues towards a peaceful resolution to the groundswell of agitations for self-determination are started.”
The group decried the prolonged detention of Kanu, describing it as amounting to, psychological and physical torture against voices of dissent.
The group said, “The pattern of unduly overstretched detention and wilful disrespect to the reported bail orders represents a serious breach of the human rights of the detained leader of IPOB and an abuse of power particularly since it is a notorious fact that twice the government disobeyed a binding bail orders granted in favour of Nnamdi Kanu by competent courts of law.”
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