Aloy Ejimakor, the particular counsel to the detained chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged President Bola Tinubu to implement the order of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group to launch the IPOB chief.
Ejimakor stated the president mustn’t comply with within the footsteps of his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari, who ignored the UN’s orders to launch Kanu.
The IPOB chief’s lawyer acknowledged this in a press release issued on Saturday.
Kanu has been within the custody of the Division of State Providers since June 2021.
In July 2022, the UNHRC by a landmark opinion issued by its Working Group directed Buhari’s administration to free Kanu.
The group additionally requested that the ex-president ought to accord him a pathway to compensation for Kanu’s arrest and rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.
Referring to the order on Kanu’s freedom, Ejimakor stated the Federal Authorities was certain by the directives and orders from worldwide legal guidelines and treaties due to the nation’s membership.
Ejimakor stated, “Nigeria is duty-bound to implement this determination in its black letters and spirit. And it was anticipated to take action promptly.
“Nonetheless, it’s by no means too late to behave, at the same time as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has, for 3 and half years, endured the horrendous rigours of a detention that’s bereft of any authorized justification.”
The lawyer known as on Tinubu to free Kanu, saying the president didn’t want any courtroom order to let the IPOB chief regain his freedom.
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