President Muhammadu Buhari was reacting to the protest by some persons from the southeastern part of the calling, calling for the independent state of Biafra.
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The PUNCH had reported that the Federal Government had alleged that transmitters for Radio Biafra, spreading secessionist agenda for carving out Biafra region from Nigeria, were found to be installed on MTN masts in Enugu and Anambra states between April and May 2015.
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VEXED by the persistent disrespect of different valid orders of the courts of competent jurisdiction directing President Muhammadu Buhari to free unconditionally and immediately Nnamdi Kanu from the detention facility of DSS, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has criticised the President for dragging Nigeria back to the military style tyranny but quickly warned him that his plot to institutionalise totalitarianism would be actively resisted.
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Calls to his attorneys were not immediately returned. “Obviously we appreciate the expression of confidence in her”, Troiani said. In it he admits to using drugs to dope women with whom he wanted to have sex – but insisted it was with their knowledge.
“The publication was totally false and should be ignored by the general public, no amount of intimidation, harassment, torture, killings, arrest and blackmail can make Kanu apologize for anything he said, nothing will ever make us to stop the agitation for the actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra”, he said.
The case summary reads: “In one of such broadcasts on August 1, 2015, he called on members of IPOB in the Diaspora to identify children of Nigerian dignitaries, their residences and schools, with a view to taking reprisal action against them in the event of attacks against Biafrans by Nigerian security agents”. Kanu is the self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra, which broadcasts from London.
Kanu, however, reportedly justified IPOB’s desire for an independent Biafra, referring to the “incessant hardship, lack of holistic development in the socioeconomic landscape of Nigeria, lack of youth employment, corruption in high offices and economic regression”.
In the statement issued by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, made available to journalists in Umuahia, the pro-Biafra organization said that it was obvious that the alleged apology was planted in the said newspaper by the Federal Government to weaken Biafran agitators.
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Ahmed Mohammed, the trial judge, thereafter withdrew from the case. On December 17, a judge at a federal high court in the Nigerian capital of Abuja ordered that Kanu be granted unconditional bail and released from DSS custody.
