Biafra: Ohanaeze rejects court’s judgment on IPOB
The group
described the court’s judgment, which declared IPOB as a terrorist group as
height of nepotism and denigration of the nation’s judiciary system.
A source reports
that a Federal High Court sitting Abuja had on Thursday dismissed the
application by the pro-Biafra group, requesting for the reverse of the court’s
order proscribing it and designating it a terrorist organisation.
The Acting
Chief Justice, Abdu Kafarati, while delivering his ruling on IPOB’s
application, resolved all the three formulated issues against the group, and
held that September 20, 2017 proscription order was validly issued.
Reacting to
the judgment, Nnia Nwodo, the President General of Ohaneze, said the verdict
was unfortunate.
He said, “It
is unfortunate that our courts are allowing themselves to be used for unlawful
and political ends. IPOB has done nothing to qualify, as defined by international
standards, to be called a terrorist organization.
“Sadly The
Federal Attorney General in his parochialism, unmitigated bias and calumny has
not found it necessary to classify The Fulani herdsmen as terrorists inspite of
their classification by the Global Terrorist Index as the fourth deadliest
terrorist organization in the world. Ohaneze frowns at this nepotism, this
denigration of our judiciary and this stigmatization of our children.”
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