IPOB to South West- Do not Support Secret Trial for Nnamdi Kanu

                                    

The Indigenous Peoples of Bi­afra ( IPOB) has lashed out on the social media commentators particularly of Yoruba extraction against supporting the federal government’s move to try its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, using masked witnesses.

IPOB in a press state­ment issued yesterday by its Publicity and Me­dia Secretary, Emma Powerful, strongly con­demned all advocates of secret trial for Kanu, ac­cusing them of doing so out of envy and hatred.

The pro-Biafra group argued that when the late Yoruba leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was tried and convicted of treasonable felony, his trial was never secret but conducted in the open court.

IPOB also noted that it was the late Biafra leader and warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who released Awolowo from prison custody in Calabar, wondering why it will be the Yo­rubas who are cham­pioning secret trial for Kanu.

The statement reads “If Chief Awolowo that committed treason was tried in the public with full media attendance, how much more Nnam­di Kanu answering to the lesser charge of trea­sonable felony?

“This hypocritical at­titude of some of you social commentators is indicative of the un­derlying pathological hatred you people have towards Igbos, which is largely driven by envy.

“Our question to those who claim to be social media practitio­ners is this: would you have supported a secret trial for your Chief Oba­femi Awolowo?Then why are you in support of secret trial for Kanu”?