Release Pro-Biafran Activist, Nnamdi Kanu From Nigerian Detention.
Igbo People, UK - Prince Chidi
Release Pro-Biafran Activist, Nnamdi Kanu From Nigerian Detention.
Igbo People, UK - Prince Chidi


On October 17, 2015 Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a Nigerian pro-Independence group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO and a Director of the online radio station, Radio Biafra was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria, by the Department of Security Services (DSS) on arrival from the United Kingdom where he resides.

The IPOB movement is agitating for the independence of Nigeria’s former Eastern Region – proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967 and re-annexed to Nigeria three years later, following a civil war that claimed over three million lives.

The Pro-Biafra group are non-violent and according to Article I of the Charter of the United Nations, these nearly 79 million people are covered under the Self-determination Right of international law to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Irrespective of our political disagreements and leaning, Nnamdi Kanu's freedom and over 600 detained IPOB members cannot be infringed by the Nigerian government under any pretext and their continued detention should condemned by all.

We call upon international communities and organisations, especially the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, the United States President, Barack Obama, other world leaders, House of Commons, US Senate & Congress, EU and the Security Council of the UN to demand the immediate release of Mr Nnamdi Kanu and intervene in this matter in accordance with International law.

For the Nigerian government, the arrest and detention of IPOB members, including Mr Kanu and the extra-judicial killing of our members in government custody will not prevent the demands for referendum and Independence for the Biafran people. The government's current draconian approach is only attracting sympathies and support from those that do not share these noble idea and struggle.

We demand that Mr Nnamdi Kanu, all detained IPOB members to be released immediately from detentions camps and bodies of our members executed by Nigerian government's secret services and the Prisons be exhumed wherever they were dumped, and returned to their families. Their freedom, right of association and expression must not be subject to contest.
This petition will be delivered to:

President
Barack Obama
MP Camberwell and Peckham
Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP
U.S. Senate.