Jarvis Johnson, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 139, on Monday, wrote to the United States (US) government led by President Joe Biden, urging authorities to facilitate the “immediate release” of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained British-Nigerian leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
In the letter sighted by POLITICS NIGERIA, Johnson asked the American government to “get involved to stop the genocide” in Nigeria’s Eastern region.
Johnson had written to Biden last November, accusing the Nigerian government of failing to comply with legal mandates.
“Kanu’s only offence is that he is the leading for freedom of all oppressed Nigerians, and for a referendum on the Biafran cause,” the House of Representatives member said in his new letter.
He added: “The illegal kidnapping, torture, and solitary confinement of Mazi Kanu offends our democratic norms. So does the willful disobedience of the judgments of its own courts by the Nigerian governments.
“I am demanding for the immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“The government of Nigeria needs to comply with the UN mandate and the orders of its own courts.
“The Nigerian government is carrying out another form of genocide, one citizen at a time.
“I am calling on the American government to get involved to stop this genocide. We have protected other countries around the world to help vulnerable populations; we need to do same for Nigeria and its Biafran citizens.”
