Bruce Fein, the international counsel and spokesman for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has petitioned the United Nations Security Council over the treatment of his client.

The petition dated April 9, 2022, and jointly signed by Fein and the wife of the IPOB leader, Uche Kanu, is asking the UN Security Council to investigate the complicity of the Nigerian and Kenyan governments in the abduction, torture and rendition of Kanu from Kenya in June 2021.


Kanu was renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya last June under questionable circumstances. Since his arrival, he has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), the secret police of Africa’s most populous nation.

Addressed to Honorable Barbara Woodward, UK Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council, the letter is titled, “Petition to the United Nations Security Council to establish an independent Commission to investigate the complicity of Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents in the criminal kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and indefinite arbitrary detention of United Kingdom citizen Nnamdi Kanu from Nairobi to Abuja and for the establishment of a Special Tribunal outside either Nigeria or Kenya to prosecute the suspects identified by the Commission.”

It reads, “We, the undersigned respectfully petition the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, to pass a resolution establishing an international independent investigation Commission to establish criminal responsibility for Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping, torture, and extraordinary rendition from Nairobi, Kenya to Abuja, Nigeria on or about June 2021, and indefinite, ongoing, arbitrary detention in solitary confinement thereafter by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The resolution should also establish a Special Tribunal to prosecute persons the Commission finds have been responsible for Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and arbitrary detention.

“Convincing evidence in the public domain, direct and circumstantial, implicate Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian Attorney General Abubakar Malami, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, among others, in the above-referenced crimes against Nnamdi Kanu.

“The governments of Nigeria and Kenya cannot be trusted to investigate or prosecute themselves. The universal legal principle that a person cannot be a judge in his own case applies here.

“We submit that Security Council Resolution 1595, which established an independent Commission to investigate the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harari, and

Security Council Resolution 1757, which established a Special Tribunal for the prosecution of the responsible parties found by the independent Commission, should be considered as templates for the corresponding resolutions we are requesting for investigation and prosecution of the crimes against Nnamdi Kanu by Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents.

“We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you or your staff in person or over the internet to further elaborate on this petition.”

Last Friday, a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out eight out of the amended 15 counts bordering on treasonable felony and other related charges filed against Kanu by the Nigerian government.

The judge, Binta Nyako struck out counts 6,7,9,10,11,12,13 and 14.

Kanu is now to stand trial on counts 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 15.

“In this instant preliminary objection application, I have read the counts and counts 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 have not disclosed any offence,” the judge held.

“Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15 shows some allegations. The court shall proceed to try the defendant on those counts.”

Mike Ozekhome, Kanu’s lead counsel, described the charges as “defective and baseless”.

He said his application seeks the “quashing, striking out and dismissing of the 15-count amended charge” for being “incompetent and denying the court of jurisdiction to entertain the suit”.

“You are accusing Kanu of making some broadcast. You didn’t say where these broadcasts were made. Were they made in the spirit world, made in the air or under the ground?” Ozekhome asked.

Emergingnation3:
Las las Biafra will come.

Emergingnation3:
BREAKING: Nnamdi Kanu’s American Lawyer, Wife Petition UN Security Council, Seek Probe Of IPOB Leader’s Abduction In Kenya, Torture, Others
The petition dated April 9, 2022, and jointly signed by Fein and the wife of the IPOB leader, Uche Kanu.

PrinceOfLagos:
Biafra is coming nohwere, stop deceiving yourself

PrinceOfLagos:
Biafra is coming nohwere, stop deceiving yourself

Emergingnation3:
Thesame way you have been decieved by this failed contraption since time immemorial with the hope that things go better,but to no avail.

Biafra actualization is a done deal..

Emergingnation3:
Las las Biafra will come.

obidr:


How old are you ? I hope you will not continue to say this when you are 80. My friend focus on more productive things in your life. No Biafra is coming. I am Igbo like you,...so wake up bro and get involved in more meaningful endeavors.

PrinceOfLagos:

Oga leave story, there is no Biafra or Yoruba nation coming anywhere

Nigeria is one and will not be devided by Kanu or Sunday Igboho

DitariDisciple2:
Ijaw Republic is for all Ijaws unjustly balkanized into the six Nigerian States.
We produce over 90 percent of all Nigeria's crude oil but were unjustly balkanized into six States of which are Nigeria's Ondo,Edo,Delta,Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom States when all Ijaw areas are fully together and share perfect boundaries with each other.
Ijaw Republic our home.

jmoore:
A terrorist that jumped bail was rearrested.

How many petitions have IPOB written?

Lawyers just dey cashout from IPOB foolishness.

PrinceOfLagos:
Biafra is coming nowhere, stop deceiving yourself

Conrod:
He who fought and hoped that nigeria will get better is the most decieved and most hopeless.

Emergingnation3:
Las las Biafra will come.

Sweetplum:
Govt wan keep am till after 2023

PrinceOfLagos:
says a lunatic

Nigeria will get better wether lunatics like it or not

Emergingnation3:
[s]Says fulani muslim, chronic unity beggar, who is suffering from acute delirium..

The federal high court Umuohia has already ruled that Nnamdi Kanu did not jump bail, rather his home was invaded illegal by the Nigerian terrorist security operative with the aimed of killing him, which lead to his escaped for his dear Life..

The court fine FG 10 billion damages in regards to that..[/s]

PrinceOfLagos:
Biafra is coming nowhere, stop deceiving yourself

mogbeyiteren:
Are u scared of letting Biafrans go? Dont behave like king Pharaoh, we should let dem go....period

Emergingnation3:
Cos you're one of those Who are diagnosed with acute imposter syndromes on Nairaland..

Emergingnation3:
Says fulani muslim, chronic unity beggar, who is suffering from acute delirium..

The federal high court Umuohia has already ruled that Nnamdi Kanu did not jump bail, rather his home was invaded illegal by the Nigerian terrorist security operative with the aimed of killing him, which lead to his escaped for his dear Life..

The court fine FG 10 billion damages in regards to that..

jmoore:

Says IPOB cannibalistic terrorist, chronic freedom beggar who is intoxicated with crystal meth.


Same courts that made Uzodimma governor of Imo state. So you now acknowledge court rulings?
Continue waiting for FG to pay damages. [/b]Clowns!!