One year after the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, got missing following soldiers’ invasion of his home in Afaraukwu, Abia State, on September 14, 2017, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has asked the military to explain his whereabouts.
In a statement on Friday, Ejiofor who said he received a distress call from Kanu in the middle of the military operation at his home, also called on various international organisations to activate “possible diplomatic channel” to probe “crimes against humanity.”
The military had in September last year deployed soldiers in the South-East in what it code-named Operation Python Dance to quell the agitation for the actualisation of the Republic of Biafra.
The soldiers, during the operation, invaded the home of Kanu, who was then on bail granted him by the Federal High Court in Abuja where he was being prosecuted alongside others on charges of treasonable felony.
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja, before whom Kanu and others were being prosecuted, had however ruled in a judgment she delivered in January 2018 that there was no evidence showing that the missing IPOB leader was in the custody of the Army.
