Uche Okafor Mefor, estranged Deputy-Leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday said he wants Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the group, released by Nigerian authorities, so that he can “see the effect of the violence, horror and terror that he initiated”.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Mefor berated IPOB members for protecting their own human rights, but violating other people’s.
He demanded that ‘anyone who asks for equity, must also go with clean hands’.
“Let us face facts here and sentiments apart! There is no doubt that Nnamdi Kanu was tortured and his human rights violated (when he was brought from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021), but why is it that the criminal gangs he inspired unconscionably , brutally target,TORTURE AND MURDER THEIR VICTIMS AND DENY THEM THE ENJOYMENT OF THE OWN HUMAN RIGHTS?” Mefor wrote on his official Facebook page.
“Nobody should be denied of his or her human rights. Justice for Kanu but what about justice for the victims of IPOB-ESN-UNKNOWN GUNMEN inspired by Nnamdi Kanu? I want Kanu to be released to see the effect of these violence, horror and terror that he initiated against all wise counsel.”
Mefor added: “Of note, this same human rights violations including that of prohibition of “torture” that the Indigenous People of Biafra under Nnamdi Kanu (IPOB) are talking about today is the same human rights that they argued that it did not exist in freedom fighting when it suited them in order to justify their despicable conducts.
“The same they argued on democracy and used it to try to discredit, lie and blackmail us by launching the ESN ( that’s after renaming the volunteers to ESN), which went on to assume different names/aliases and form other networks and alliances to unleash unprecedented, systematic human rights violations against other vulnerable Biafrans.
“Today, the trails they left behind are that of insecurity as against security that they bragged about; it is horror and terror; it is enforced disappearances and it is extra-judicial killings and targeted assassinations of Igbo Biafrans on Biafran soil.
“In summary, it is incomprehensible, unconscionable and self-serving that the Indigenous People of Biafra under Nnamdi Kanu (IPOB) talks of human rights when it affects them but not when it concerns other people.”
