{"id":162462,"date":"2025-05-14T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/biafra-nnamdi-kanu-is-a-prisoner-of-conscience-unlawfully-detained-ipob"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:27:26","slug":"biafra-nnamdi-kanu-is-a-prisoner-of-conscience-unlawfully-detained-ipob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/biafra-nnamdi-kanu-is-a-prisoner-of-conscience-unlawfully-detained-ipob","title":{"rendered":"Biafra: \u2018Nnamdi Kanu is a prisoner of conscience, unlawfully detained\u2019 \u2013 IPOB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra has slammed what it described as the latest desperate attempt by the Federal Government and some sections of the media to divert public attention from the alleged disgraceful collapse of their case against its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n

IPOB, while describing Kanu as a prisoner of conscience, being unlawfully detained in violation of local and international law, accused the Federal Government of concocting and fabricating lies to nail him instead of reporting on the embarrassing cross-examination of their witness, known as PW-BBB, who admitted under oath that no investigation report exists to support the politically motivated charges.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Powerful, titled \u201cFederal Government\u2019s Propaganda Fails Again,\u201d the group rejects media diversion tactics with what it called the worthless death certificate of Ahmed Gulak.<\/p>\n

IPOB stated further that the Federal Government was trying to link Gulak\u2019s death to the group or Kanu, who knows nothing about it, in order to further delay the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, categorically condemns the latest desperate attempt by the Federal Government and its compromised media to divert public attention from the disgraceful collapse of their case against our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than report on the embarrassing cross-examination of their confused witness, known as PW-BBB, who admitted under oath that no investigation report exists to support the politically motivated charges, the media is awash with irrelevant stories about the tendering of a death certificate.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet it be known that the so-called death certificate of Ahmed Gulak, former aide to ex-President Jonathan, has no evidentiary value whatsoever in the context of the ongoing trial.<\/p>\n

The Federal Government\u2019s prosecuting counsel, Awomolo SAN, acting with shocking dishonesty, attempted to reintroduce evidence after closing his examination-in-chief\u2014an unethical and unacceptable legal manoeuvre designed only to mask the shame of a failed prosecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to set the record straight: The sit-at-home observance declared by IPOB for the annual 30th May Remembrance Day in 2021 was held on Monday, 31st May 2021, not Sunday the 30th. Gulak was murdered on Sunday, a full day before the observance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis timeline alone dismantles the fabricated claim that IPOB had any involvement in his death. The attempt to retrofit this tragic event into their crumbling narrative is not just deceitful, but it is criminal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remind the world that this is not the first time the Nigerian state has weaponised misinformation and historical revisionism to justify ethnic prosecution,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra has slammed what it described as the latest desperate attempt by the Federal Government and some sections of the media to divert public attention from the alleged disgraceful collapse of their case against its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 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