The details of the “vital meeting” involving the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and officials of the United Nations (UN) have emerged.
Kanu said after the meeting that issues concerning his people (IPOB) have been tabled before various arms and agencies of the United Nations (UN).
YaahooJournalist reports that Kanu said this in a statement issued by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, on Thursday, September 19.
At the meeting with UN officials, the IPOB leader said Biafra’s case would no longer be ignored.
The IPOB leader made this statement a day after he had a “vital meeting” with some officials of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
YaahooJournalist recalls that Kanu led a delegation of ‘Biafrans’ to a series of meetings with various United Nations agencies and officials at Geneva where he presented Biafra’s plight to the UN officials.
IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Thursday, said Kanu’s emergence from the meeting was met with chants of eulogy by a congregation of Biafrans.
Mr. Powerful said Kanu demanded urgent action against the numerous rights abuses inflicted daily upon Biafrans and the need to support the undeniable right of Biafrans to self-determination as enshrined in law, statute and various UN conventions.
The statement reads in part: “Every issue concerning our people is now before the various arms and agencies of the United Nations. Our case will no longer be ignored.
“The case of RUGA settlement was also raised and the august body was left in doubt that Biafrans will never allow Fulani terror settlements in Biafraland.
“Incessant killing of Biafrans in their own land by terrorist Fulani herdsmen, extortion and killing of Biafran motorcyclists and commercial drivers by Nigerian army and police over refusal to give #50 bribery.”
Mr. Powerful noted in the statement that Kanu also raised the continued illegal detention of Omoleye Sowore, the relentless persecution of the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria led by Sheikh El-Zakzaky, among other issues.
The statement said the IPOB leader was accompanied by his deputy, Mazi Uche Mefor, Head of Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem and other top echelons of the struggle.
