The IPOB lawyer said this in a tweet on Sunday while reacting to the CNG’s appeal to President Bola Tinubu not to release the detained separatist leader.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has said the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) must face trial for all the “atrocities and killings done by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria”.
The IPOB lawyer said this in a tweet on Sunday while reacting to the CNG’s appeal to President Bola Tinubu not to release the detained separatist leader.
CNG warned President Tinubu not to be misled by the theatrics of IPOB and asked that Kanu should be tried for all of his “crimes”.
The northern group, through its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, on Saturday, lamented the level of insecurity in the southeastern part of Nigeria, urging federal authorities to resist the campaigns of blackmail to use Kanu's release as a precondition for long-term peace in the country.
Suleiman urged the federal authorities to disregard the unpatriotic calls by Igbo leaders for Kanu’s release and remain resolute in prosecuting the IPOB leader.
Reacting, Ejimakor said since CNG vehemently objected to the release of Kanu, the Nigerian government must also charge the group for accessory to murder.
He said the CNG, as the umbrella body of northern groups including herders’ unions, should answer for the crimes committed by herdsmen in the country.
“As the umbrella body of Northern groups which includes HERDSMEN, CNG is vicariously complicit in every murder committed by herdsmen & thus must face trial as an accessory to murder,” the IPOB lawyer wrote on his verified Twitter page.
NEWS: Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has insisted that NNAMDI KANU must face trial.
MY TAKE: As the umbrella body of Northern groups which includes HERDSMEN, CNG is vicariously complicit in every murder committed by herdsmen & thus must face trial as an accessory to murder. pic.twitter.com/nfqLbyddAy
— aloy ejimakor (@AloyEjimakor) July 16, 2023