Africa-Press – Nigeria. Igbo women group, under the aegis of the Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, has said the country seems to have a different set of laws applicable only to the South-East region.
The group made this statement following the conviction and life jail sentence handed to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Trial Justice James Omotosho, in his judgment, found Kanu guilty on all seven-count terrorism charges the federal government slammed against him.
Reacting, the women, through their National President, Lolo Nneka Chimezie, said the judgment was not based on any fair logic, alleging that it appeared to have been written even before the trial started.
According to Lolo Chimezie, who was at the court, Kanu is innocent of the charge preferred against him.
“This is unacceptable, and we are kicking against the injustices that are being meted out on Igbo people.
“It is as if the Nigerian government from 2014 to 2019 created a different law for the Igbos. The law they apply to the Igbos is not the same as the law they apply to other Nigerians, which played out yesterday,” she said.
On his part, President General of the Igbo community Association, Engr. Ikenna Ellis-Ezenekwe, said, “The judiciary may have decided on its own to unravel the painstaking peace achieved in the South East by its singular act of declaring Kanu guilty without affording him the opportunity to defend himself.
“The Igbo community in Abuja is saddened and disappointed by this ruling. We call on the spirit of patriotism and on patriotic Nigerians to rise and speak up against the continued detention of Kanu.”
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