Breaking: “If You Call IPOB a Terrorist Organisation You’ll Face Fierce Legal Actions,” IPOB Legal Team Issues Final Warning

The Legal Team of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has released a Legal Notice to the general public, Government agencies and the media, to cease and desist from calling/tagging the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a terrorist organisation/group, otherwise, risk a fierce legal actions.

The legal notice was signed by the Lead Counsel of Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team, who doubles as special counsel to the IPOB leader, Barr. Aloy Ejimakor .

Ejimakor revealed that “there is a subsisting Judgment of a competent High Court in Nigeria (attached herewith) which ruled that IPOB’s proscription/declaration as a terrorist group by Buhari is illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Compliance with this Judgment strictly demands that IPOB should no longer be referred to as a terrorist organization.”

The legal notice reads in full:

LEGAL NOTICE: 7th June, 2024

From: Nnamdi Kanu’s Legal Team

TO: All Media/General Public/Government Agencies

Subject: Henceforth, all should cease and desist from calling IPOB a terrorist group.

The general public, media houses and government agencies are hereby put on LEGAL NOTICE of the following:

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Legal Team is under firm instructions from our Client to issue this final warning to all persons and institutions still referring to IPOB as a terrorist organisation.

Henceforth, any further reference to IPOB as a terrorist organization will be met and countervailed with a muscular litigation and other lawful measures, regardless of who the entity is. This is because there is a subsisting Judgment of a competent High Court in Nigeria (attached herewith) which ruled that IPOB’s proscription/declaration as a terrorist group by Buhari is illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Compliance with this Judgment strictly demands that IPOB should no longer be referred to as a terrorist organization.

Additionally, those calling IPOB a terrorist organization have not adduced a scintilla of evidence that IPOB has ever engaged in any terrorist activity. This is underscored by the verifiable fact that since the so-called proscription of IPOB in 2017, no single alleged IPOB member has been convicted of any terrorist act, despite thousands of arrests, abductions, horrendous torture, false flags and extrajudicial killings levied against its alleged members.

Accordingly, we hereby demand that the general public, Presidency, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police and any erring media houses should forthwith cease and desist from attaching such defamatory and prejudicial label to IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Signed:

Aloy Ejimakor, Esq.

For Mazi Nnamdi Legal Team.