Northern youths petition UN, says IPOB, Kanu are terrorists
The Coalition of Northern Group said it has petitioned the United Nation in New York to invoke the relevant statutes to which Nigeria is a signatory and pronounce the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader Nnamdi Kanu terror groups.
The Northern group also demands that the United Nation (UN) should intervene by initiating “processes of peaceful referendum as the only option to finally settle the Biafra issue”.
Recall that the same group in Kaduna had earlier given ultimatum to the Igbos living in all part of the north to vacate which attracted reactions widely.
Addressing a press conference Thursday (Yesterday) in Abuja, Ambassador Shettima Yerima, who spoke on behalf of the group, alleged that Kanu, the leader of IPOB “has finally crossed the boundaries of Nigerian laws and has blatantly breached international laws that specifically frown at the use of terror to achieve a set goal”.
The twenty pages petition dated 12th July, 2017, a copy made available to the press, titled: “Request for urgent intervention brought pursuant to the UN declaration on minorities; European framework convention; UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007 in resolution 61/295”.
The youth group described as peak of insolvency, a statement credited to Nnamdi Kanu that he would order former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his entire family to be killed.
While commending the efforts of the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and other regional leaders toward ensuring lasting peace and stability in the country, Shettima alleged that Kanu and IPOB remained undaunted and “intensified their violent divisive campaign which is the main borne of contention”.
They, however, demanded that “the UN invokes the relevant statutes to which Nigeria is a signatory to pronounce Kanu and IPOB terror outfit proscribe their activities and initiate criminal actions against them.
“Since it is becoming all the more obvious, IPOB and Kanu enjoy massive support from the Igbo back home that the issue of the drive for Biafra nation is still a boiling issue, we urge the UN to intervene by initiating processes of a peaceful referendum as the only option to finally settle the Biafra issue”, the group said.
Tom Okpe, Abuja
