Missing IPOB leader, produce Kanu or face sanction, IPOB loyalists warns

The proscribed and labelled terrorists group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)  on Monday frankly threatened to take up arms against the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari if it failed  to produce its national leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, dead or alive, on Tuesday in the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria.

Accordingly, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is facing several counts of charges, one of them is treason. Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail in April by the presiding judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja with an precise directive from the Court that he Nnamdi Kanu to report back to court on the next adjourned date which is Tuesday to face his trial before Justice Binta Nyako on October 17.

the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in a statement on Monday, made available to our newsmen in Awka, the capital of Anambra State by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said it was gradually losing its patience with the Nigerian government.

The statement read in part, “The barefaced lies of the Nigerian Defence Minister, General Mansur Dan Ali,  and that of the Buhari regime against our leader and organisation is beginning to unravel before the eyes of the world.

“By admitting publicly that soldiers were sent to Isiama Afaraukwu to look for our leader without any order or warrant from a court of law confirms the contempt in which the Nigerian government holds the rule of law and their judicial process.

“It is therefore incumbent upon civilised nations of the world and organisations alike to ask the APC-led Nigerian government why they decided to send armed soldiers to invade Kanu’s residence.”

The group added, “One outcome is guaranteed in all this, should Nigeria not produce our leader in court on the 17th of October 2017, there will be inevitable confrontation on a scale the human mind cannot imagine, at a time and place of our choosing.”

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