The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu wish to bring to the attention of the public that the Nigerian Government and her lawless DSS have refused to release Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi whom the Abuja Federal High Court have granted bail since 2023. We are demanding his release according to the judgment of the Abuja High Court.
Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi was abducted on transit by the lawless Nigerian Secret Police called DSS along Lagos-Ibadan expressway and taken to Abuja in 2021. He was detained incommunicado until his lawyers went to Federal High Court Abuja to seek an order for his release. The Abuja Federal High Court granted him bail in 2023 and ordered DSS to compensate him with the sum of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000). To date, the Nigeria government and her lawless DSS blatantly refused to release him or pay him compensation in contravention of the High Court order. We are alerting the International Community and Human Rights organizations that the Federal Government of Nigerian have reduced the Nigerian Judges to toothless bull dogs by ignoring their court orders. The fate of Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi is not different from the fate of many IPOB members in the hands of the oppressive Nigeria government and her lawless Security Forces, particularly DSS and Nigerian Army. These two notorious security agencies have taken the constitutional role of Nigerian Police. Nigerian Army and DSS abduct Biafrans, and they take them to unknown locations without access to family members or lawyers. If the abducted Biafrans are lucky to escape the extrajudicial execution, and the Nigerian Court frees or grants them bail, the Nigerian Army and the DSS will decide which court judgement to obey.
We are bringing the attention of the International Community and Human Rights organizations to the level of impunity and abuse of the legal system by the Nigerian government and her lawless security agencies. Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi and many unarmed IPOB members have been subjected to persecution, not prosecution. If they were being prosecuted, the court orders ought to have been obeyed. When it comes to IPOB members and Biafrans, the Nigeria government suspends the Nigerian constitution and the rule of law just to persecute Biafrans. Like many other Biafrans who were forcefully disappeared or dumped in undisclosed detention facilities in Nigeria. Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi was abducted on transit without arrest warrant. Nigerian Government has done everything to criminalize IPOB, including illegal proscription, because we have embarked on a lawful self-determination for Indigenous Biafrans.
The former Fulani murderous government of Muhammadu Buhari wanted to obliterate Ndigbo. Unfortunately, Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government has continued where Buhari stopped.
The persecution and violence against Ndigbo by the Nigerian government is unbecoming. The Nigerian government must understand that no amount of intimidation, abduction, forceful disappearance, and extrajudicial murder of IPOB members and Biafrans will make us back down on our demand for Biafra Referendum. The only thing that can settle the Biafra agitation championed by IPOB is a Biafra Referendum, plebiscite, or outright declaration of Biafra Independence from Nigeria.
IPOB calls on the Nigerian government and the DSS to release Mazi Emeka Ngoanadi according to the ruling of Abuja Federal High Court and do the same for many other Biafrans scattered all over Nigeria jails and prisons. However, if they have extrajudicially executed him in their custody as it is in their nature, his corpse should be released to his family or IPOB movement for traditional burial.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
