Following his rearrest, extradition, and subsequent arraignment in a Nigerian Federal court by the Nigerian Government, the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has written the British Consulate in Nigeria to come to his aid.
Nnamdi Kanu has dual citizenship – Nigerian and British – and has therefore implored the British High Commission in Nigeria to protect him as their citizen and equally demand his immediate and unconditional release from the custody of the Nigerian government.
He made the appeal in a letter written by the defense lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, and addressed to the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing. In the letter, he made it clear that he is not a criminal, rather a political being with the right to express a political opinion.
He, therefore, asked the Commissioner to alert the Nigerian authorities of the UK’s interest in the case because he is a British citizen who was arrested while traveling with a British passport.
In the letter titled, “Re: Urgent Request for Consular Assistance to OKWU-KANU, Nwannekaenyi Nnamdi Kenny (a British Citizen)”, Nnamdi Kanu’s legal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, detailed very valid legal, political and diplomatic reasons why the UK should demand the release of their citizen immediately.
Here is the letter below:

Meanwhile, the Kenya government denied reports that they were involved in the rearrest and extradition of Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria. This was first claimed by Kanu’s family and also reclaimed by his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor.
When quizzed, the Kenyan Director General of Immigration Services, Alexander Muteshi, ostensibly denied his country’s complicity but also suggesting that the Nigerian separatist leader may have entered the country illegally.
He said:
“I can’t know that. I am not in the picture of his presence in the country. I am only able to tell if somebody entered the country legally.”
This will not be the first time Kenya would be involved in illegal extraditions as the 2021 case of Selahaddin Gülen, the nephew of US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, readily comes to mind.
There is also the case of Mr Abdullah Ocalan, the founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who was captured in Nairobi in February 1999 and promptly sent to Turkey to face trial.
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