Obidigbo had criticised some Igbo politicians for politicising the call for Kanu’s release, saying that their actions were worsening the situation.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Special counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday insisted that releasing the IPOB leader was not a security issue as claimed in some quarters.
Ejimakor said that those “peddling the fallacy that the matter of Nnamdi Kanu is a “security issue” should stop,” stressing that “The truth is that his matter is a “self determination” issue which is within the purview of the President/Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), not the National Security Adviser (NSA).”
According to him, “Nobody is killed by mere broadcasts.”
Ejimakor said this while reacting to the claim by Chike Obidigbo, an industrialist and President of Osisioma Foundation, who said that President Bola Tinubu was not responsible for Kanu’s detention and that Kanu’s situation was purely a security issue.
Obidigbo had criticised some Igbo politicians for politicising the call for Kanu’s release, saying that their actions were worsening the situation.
Ejimakor noted that self-determination was not a political offence, stressing that self-determination is not a crime in any part of the world including Nigeria under Article 20 of Nigeria law of that same African Charter.
He added that Kenya had a companion law.
According to him, the United Nations has a companion law.
“When you take anybody to any court in any country in the world and you tell that court you want the person in your country because he wants a Biafra, they will tell you to go to hell. You are a kidnapper extraordinaire. Whether you are a government or not, you are a rogue. You should not try anybody in court for wanting a separate nation.
“That is how Nigeria was founded in 1960. That was how the Midwest region was created in 1963. That is how Nigeria lost Southern Cameroon tio Cameroon. It is either called referendum or plebiscite and that is how Nigeria got Adamawa, the former Southern Cameroon into Northern Nigeria.
“Why should that of Biafra be different? It is only a crime in Nigeria. IPOB is only a terrorist organisation in Nigeria but not a terrorist organisation all over the world. That needs to tell you we hold something in Nigeria and that is why Nigeria dodged and went by night, ambushed Nnamdi Kanu and kidnapped him.
“We cannot take a government to criminal court and jail a government but we can call a government to answer to civil courts of this country. The Nigerian government must answer to these courts.
“Upon what document did the Nigerian government arrest Nnamdi Kanu in Kenya and upon what document did you bring him back to Nigeria?
“Until they have answered that question, Nnamdi Kanu remains a person that was kidnapped by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and that will not stand in law. That is the fact.”