{"id":4682,"date":"2017-12-13T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T23:14:04","slug":"4682-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/4682-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Missing&#8221; Kanu Nnamdi\u2019s lawyer wants Buhari to pardon detained IPOB members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4685\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/105932-c01ce0cd9f9931fb674123f65f50571e-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/105932-c01ce0cd9f9931fb674123f65f50571e-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/105932-c01ce0cd9f9931fb674123f65f50571e-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/105932-c01ce0cd9f9931fb674123f65f50571e.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/>DECEMBER 13, 2017:\u00a0The lawyer\u00a0to the \u2018missing\u2019 leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to grant state pardon to youths of Igbo extraction he said were arrested and locked up in various prisons for exercising their constitutional guaranteed rights to self determination.<\/p>\n<p>IPOB members on solidarity march Kanu\u2019s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, in the letter he wrote to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, decried that \u201chundreds of innocent and defenseless IPOB members who are mostly youths\u201d, are languishing in different prisons in the South East states and Kuje Prison in Abuja, based on \u201cphantom, frivolous and cooked-up allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further drew attention of the AGF to the fact that one of the alleged pro-Biafra agitators, Mr. Bright Chimezie, has been in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, without trial, despite a judgment of the Federal High Court in Uyo which ordered his release and also awarded him N5million damages for the violation of his fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Ejiofor noted that President Muhammadu Buhari had barely a week ago, granted state pardon to over 500 prison inmates detained on various violent offences in Kano Maximum Security Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 13, 2017:\u00a0The lawyer\u00a0to the \u2018missing\u2019 leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to grant state pardon to youths of Igbo extraction he said were arrested and locked up in various prisons for exercising their constitutional guaranteed rights to self determination. 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