Nnamdi Kanu Begs UK: I’m A British Citizen, Ask Pres Buhari To Release Me

The detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has begged the British Government to help intervene in his case by asking President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison.

Kanu who is facing treason charge alongside two other pro-Biafra agitators, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, approached the British government through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor.

Kanu, in a letter dated March 24 and addressed to the British High Commissioner in Abuja, described himself as a victim of travesty of justice and gross human rights violation. 

He insisted that the President Buhari-led administration has violently abused his fundamental human rights through his prolonged detention in prison custody.

Kanu said he was ready to answer to the charge against him, but expressed doubt in the government's ability to accord him fair trial, saying he has so far been subjected to immense persecution. 

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Stressing that he is a British citizen, Kanu said he was wrongly arrested and put in detention. 

“It is repeating the obvious to state that our client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protection, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions.

“We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government via this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that our client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving our client a fair trial”.

The Federal government has maintained that Nnamdi Kanu, who was calling Nigeria a zombie republic, will answer for his crimes of promoting hate and sponsoring violence against Nigeria.