{"id":154355,"date":"2025-03-08T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ekpa-nigeria-lacks-jurisdiction-to-designate-agitators-as-terrorists-funders-biafra-group"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:25:33","slug":"ekpa-nigeria-lacks-jurisdiction-to-designate-agitators-as-terrorists-funders-biafra-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ekpa-nigeria-lacks-jurisdiction-to-designate-agitators-as-terrorists-funders-biafra-group","title":{"rendered":"Ekpa: Nigeria lacks \u2018jurisdiction\u2019 to designate agitators as terrorists funders \u2013 Biafra group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Simon Ekpa-led group, known as the United States of Biafra has tackled the Nigerian government, claiming that it lacks the necessary jurisdiction and power to designate Biafra agitators as terrorist funders.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ngozi Orabueze, known as the Deputy Prime minister of USB and Chief of Staff, disclosed this in a statement through her X account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Her comment comes as the Nigerian government, through its Nigeria Sanction Committee, designated the group\u2019s leader, Simon Ekpa, and 16 others as terrorist financiers.<\/p>\n<p>However, Orabueze claimed that Nigerian authorities lacked the morale and jurisdiction to designate Biafrans who engage in activism and liberation agitation as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that Biafrans were not terrorists and would not succumb to intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough legislation passed by the USB Cabinets in February 2025, a law was passed that bans any government, foreign or local, from tagging any Biafran that engages in activities to restore Biafra as a territory,\u201d Orabueze claimed.<\/p>\n<p>She added that, \u201cIt is laughable and a double standard of the Nigerian government headed by President Ahmed Tinubu, who currently supports and executes a policy that reintegrates known terrorists into the Nigerian and Biafran system, including the banking sectors, and is now designating Biafrans as terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orabueze accused the Nigerian government of misplaced priority and bias for designating Biafrans as terrorists while kidnappers causing havoc on citizens through ransom collection and murder go scot-free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria\u2019s government has refused in most cases to publicly track and list these terrorists\/kidnappers as terrorist financiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent case of a local government chairman who was featured publicly begging for ransom to safeguard his life from terrorists is an example where the Nigerian state has not publicly identified or listed terrorists as financiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ploy to list innocent Biafrans as terrorist financiers is a tactic used by the Nigerian state, which has been indicted for several human rights violations, abuses, and killings to suppress Biafrans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither PM Simon Ekpa nor those innocent Biafrans listed by President Tinubu as terrorist financiers are terrorists and we implore the public and any international group or country to disregard these false and negative allegations from the Nigerian state,\u201d she further stated.<\/p>\n<p>She urged those whose names were listed by President Tinubu as terrorist financiers not to panic or fret.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the USB will file human rights abuse charges against the Nigerian government at the appropriate court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build a country where innocent citizens who fight for freedom and their nation are not tagged as terrorist financiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnited States of Biafra will file the necessary documents with the right organisations on this intimidation, false accusation, and economic strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States of Biafra Mission office in Washington DC will be inaugurated on May 30th, 2025. Part of the event will be a peace summit for Biafrans across the world and a commemoration of Biafra Heroes and Heroines,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Simon Ekpa-led group, known as the United States of Biafra has tackled the Nigerian government, claiming that it lacks the necessary jurisdiction and power to designate Biafra agitators as terrorist funders. 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