As the trial of the Leader of the indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, enters the critical stage, the American Military Veterans of Igbo Descent, have renewed the call for the unconditional release of Kanu by the Federal Government.
Recall the Prosecution Team, which is the Federal government has closed its case on the matter while the Defense Team are likely to close their case next week.
The American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID)in a statement signed by its Chairman,Chief Dr. Sylvester Onyia, made available to Judiciary Correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday, said Kanu’s continuous
detention, despite multiple court orders for his release, is not a matter of legal oversight but a deliberate attempt and violation of his human rights.
The body called on the United Nations, African Union, and ECOWAS to demand Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s immediate
and unconditional release adding that, the United Kingdom Government should act decisively in defense of its citizen whose fundamental rights have been
flagrantly violated.
On the killings of innocent lives in Benue State, the War veterans described the development as appualing calling the attention of International Community, human rights organizations, and global democratic institutions to the
ongoing atrocities occurring in Benue State and other indigenous regions of Nigeria.
It viewed the massacres as part of a sustained ethnic cleansing campaign that has accelerated since the illegal
abduction and detention of opposition voices in the country.
The body added that the mass killing have exposed the cost of silencing voices of truth noting that, this impending horror, remain the planned domination of indigenous lands through state-sponsored terror disguised as herdsmen attacks.
