The Igbo General Assembly of Spain (IGA) (Asamblea General Igbo España) has totally condemned refusal of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) to produce the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in court.
In an open letter made available to newsmen in Umuahia, IGA’s President, Chief Kingsley Ndibe, said non production of Kanu in court gives credence to the views in some quarters that the activist may not have fair trial in Nigeria.
The open letter, which also, signed by its Vice President, Mazi Iroegbu and Political Strategist, Ifeanyi Okongwu, also condemned what it called the abduction of Kanu in a foreign land in violation of law, diplomacy and basic principles of the rule of law.
The group demanded for the immediate and unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying that the abduction by both the Kenyan government and Nigerian governments shows how desperate the two countries are muzzling opposition and clamping down on activists.
According to it, Igbos have been wrongly and unfairly treated in the geopolitical space called Nigeria, adding that the likes of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB group have consistently frowned and expressed deep disappointment over the marginalization of Igbos under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
It warned the Federal Government of Nigeria against using it as an excuse to clamp down on agitators in the Southern Nigeria, but should use it as a political issue that should be addressed amicably for the interest of the nation
IGA expressed its disappointment over the inability of South-East Governors to end the perilous security situation in the zone and expressed shock and alarm that Igbos in their various communities are no longer safe.
“They’re being abducted and murdered in large numbers in their ancestral land”, it regretted, describing the situation as catastrophic.
It laments the recent massacre of innocent Igbo villagers by suspected Fulani herdsmen at the Obie Aku farm settlement in Uzo-Uwani Local Government of Enugu State on Sunday night, killing many in the process.
IGA laments that South-East governors have failed to protect Igbos, adding that under this cataclysm, Igbo welfare and well-being are threatened.
The group said that Serious, worthy Igbos are baffled by the weak-knees attitudes of South-East governors and are forced to believe that the present administrations encourage the invasion of Igboland.
IGA stressed that the crux of the existing Nigerian structure is the influx of killer herdsmen and bandits to Igboland, stressing that it engenders the culmination of widespread massacres of the Igbo people.
The group frowned at what it termed unserious setting up of Ebubeagu, describing the security outfit as “a sell-out of Igbo security interests” with subordinate attachment to the federal structure, of which it says Igbos have no confidence in its composition as their security outfit.
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“Folks are constrained to engage in their legitimate occupations as violence and death wreak havoc on our people. This is no acceptable choice for our people.
“Igbo interests have been jeopardized, while with docility, South-East governors condone the emasculation of our people.
“Killer herdsmen inflict mayhem on Igbo men, women and children, to the extent that they invade our communities unimpeded.
“No Igbo state has been spared from the atrocities of these bandits, and our people are slaughtered and butchered in their homes and farms; our women and child-girls raped and abducted; our properties looted or destroyed; our homes and communities incinerated; our forests and sacred places occupied or desecrated, etc.”
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