Why I demand revocation of IPOB as terrorist group, by Ejimakor

Special Counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, at the weekend, demanded the revocation and annulment of the proscription and declaration of IPOB as a terrorist group by the Federal Government.

He told The Guardian that removing the terrorist tag on IPOB has become over due, especially when, according to him, the Abia State High Court and the United Nations had separately and independently disagreed with the declaration.

His words: “When you declare a group that represents millions of people a terrorist group and every nation in the world disagrees with you, you should annul that declaration. Also, when you rendition and detain a man because he is gusty and a court of competent jurisdiction disagrees with you, you should release him.”

Ejimakor, who insisted that it amounted to injustice for the Federal High Court, Abuja, to have ignored the Abia State High Court judgment and held that Kanu jumped bail, said this would imply that “Nigerian government, which forced Kanu out of Nigeria, is judicially allowed to benefit from its own wrong of compelling him to flee Nigeria.”

According to Ejimakor, this scenario can only happen in Nigeria and not elsewhere in the world.