Kanunta Kanu, the younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has criticised authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) for not visiting his detained sibling in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), or try to get him back to Britain.
According to Kanunta Kanu via his known Twitter handle on Thursday, Nnamdi Kanu, a British-Nigerian, is being subjected to illegal trial by the Nigerian government, hence his second country should have waded in.
“The failure of @FCDOGovUK to visit #MaziNnamdiKanu in #DSS custody or return him to the UK, after he was rendition to #Nigeria, is the greatest conspiracy of the century against #Biafrans @UN. What a shame @UKParliament as they watch Biafra-British citizen go on illegal trials?” Kanunta Kanu wrote.
Kanu is being tried on charges of treasonable felony regarding his separatist activities. The trial is scheduled to resume before Binta Nyako, the trial judge today, Thursday.
The separatist, who was granted bail in April 2017, fled the country after the invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State, by the military in September that year, a situation one of Kanu’s lawyers, Alloy Ejimakor described as the “rule of self-preservation.”
Nyako, subsequently revoked his bail for ditching his trial, and ordered his trial to be separated from the rest of the co-defendants’. While the trial of the rest of the defendants has made some progress, Kanu’s has been stalled since 2017.
On June 29, 2021, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, announced that Kanu had been rearrested and brought back to Nigeria to continue facing his trial.
He said the IPOB leader was “intercepted” days earlier but did not give details.
Although there has been no official disclosure about where and how Kanu was arrested, relatives and lawyers to the IPOB leader, have described how he was “kidnapped” in Kenya under controversial circumstances.
