By Don Silas The South East Revival Group (SERG) has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately comply with the resoluti...
By Don Silas
The South East Revival Group (SERG) has urged the Federal
Government of Nigeria to immediately comply with the resolutions of the United
Nations, UN, Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, on the
detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to
avert a fresh war front, amid the current insecurity in most parts of the
country.
The UN recently indicted both the Nigerian and Kenyan
Governments for the extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of
Kanu without due process.
Consequently, the UN agreed and recommended to the Federal
Government to immediately release Kanu unconditionally.
However, in a statement signed by the President and National
Coordinator of the SERG, Chief Willy Ezugwu, at the weekend, the group called
on the Government to be responsible and reasonable in handling the
recommendations of the UN as part of the bitter pills Nigeria must take to
reduce armed struggle in the country.
The statement read in part, “For the United Nations to ask
the Federal Government to pay adequate compensation for the arbitrary violation
of the fundamental human rights of Nnamdi Kanu, it then becomes clear that the
world body has found grave infractions in the process of rendition and
detention of the IPOB leader.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari administration must be
proactive enough to immediately free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and open a channel for
addressing the root causes of the renewed Biafran agitations in the South East
in the general interest of peace, security and national integration.
“The Federal Government must learn lessons from the
unfortunate but avoidable insurgency in the North East, which has spread to
other parts of the country and escalated as a result of the arbitrary killing
of the Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf.
“We, therefore, call on President Muhammadu Buhari to
immediately order the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and open a
channel for dialogue with aggrieved citizens, not only in the South East but
across the country, in order to find lasting peace in the country.
“This has become expedient as the Nigerian security forces
will eventually be overwhelmed if avoidable war fronts are opened in all parts
of the country, which will be inimical to national peace and development.”
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