British Government To Ask Buhari To Release Him

The pioneer of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the previous chief of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the British government to request that President Buhari discharge him from jail.
                                
                               
                                                 IPOB pioneer Nnamdi Kanu

Mr. Kanu, a native of both the United Kingdom and Nigeria, is confronting conspiracy charges, alongside individual Biafrans Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.

In a letter tended to the British High Commissioner in Abuja, Mr. Kanu and his legal advisor, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, contend that President Buhari has damaged his human rights by keeping him in jail authority. Mr. Kanu expressed that he is set up to confront the charge against him, however he is indeterminate that his trial would be reasonable.

Mr. Kanu was captured and confined from October 14, 2015 through January 20, 2016 with no legal request from a court. He was then denied abandon January 29, 2016 by Justice John Tsoho and was therefore come back to detainment.

In December 2015, President Buhari had declared that Mr. Kanu couldn't be conceded safeguard, contending that he had entered the nation without a substantial voyaging travel permit.

As per Mr. Ejiofor, the court's decision on his customer's safeguard was affected by President Buhari's declaration.

"In spite of the fact that exceptionally lamentable and to a great degree heartbreaking, Nnamdi Kanu was denied abandon January 29, 2016. In declining him and different litigants safeguard, the court additionally refered to the actualities of his ownership of double travel permits as a flight chance, and all things considered held that he can't be allowed safeguard."

In spite of the court's decision, double citizenship is a privilege ensured to every Nigerian native under area 28 of the 1999 Constitution.

Mr. Ejiofor spoke to the British government to mediate on Mr. Kanu's benefit, underlining that his customer's British citizenship qualifies him for insurance under British laws.

"It is rehashing the conspicuous to express that our customer is a full British native, by righteousness of which he is qualified for all rights, benefits and insurance ensured under the British laws and traditions," he clarified.

"We are in this manner compelled in the situation to formally advise the British government… that our customer is experiencing oppression in the charge above alluded, and think outline by the persecutors to disappoint each exertion of the resistance group went for giving our customer a reasonable trial."