Nnamdi Kanu’s wife writes UN Security Council over breach of husband’s fundamental rights
The wife of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) Mrs Uchechi Okwu Kanu, has petitioned the United Nations Security Council over what she called the abduction, rendition and continued detention of her husband Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in breach of his fundamental human rights.
In the petition which was written by the family’s lawyer, Bruce Fein, Mrs Kanu is calling on the world body to also set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the alleged torture of her husband, and punish all those involved in the saga.
“Convincing evidence in the public domain, direct and circumstantial, implicates Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian Attorney General Abubakar Malami, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, among others, in the above-referenced crimes against Nnamdi Kanu.”
The petition reminded the UN that the Governments of Nigeria and Kenya cannot be trusted to investigate or prosecute themselves.
“We submit that Security Council Resolution 1595, which established an independent Commission to investigate the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harari, and Security Council Resolution 1757, which established a Special Tribunal for the prosecution of the responsible parties found by the independent Commission, should be considered.
“We are requesting for investigation and prosecution of the crimes against Nnamdi Kanu by Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents”, the petitioners added.
Below is a full text of the petition obtained by Oracle News:
Honorable Barbara Woodward
United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council 760 United Nations Plaza.
Re: Petition to the United Nations Security Council to establish an independent Commission to investigate the complicity of Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents in the criminal kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and indefinite arbitrary detention of United Kingdom citizens Nnamdi Kanu from Nairobi to Abuja and for the establishment of a Special Tribunal outside either Nigeria or Kenya to prosecute the suspects identified by the Commission
We, the undersigned respectfully petition the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, to pass a resolution establishing an international
Independent investigation Commission to establish criminal responsibility for Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping, torture, and extraordinary rendition from Nairobi, Kenya to Abuja, Nigeria on or about June 2021, and indefinite, ongoing, arbitrary detention in solitary confinement thereafter by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The resolution should also establish a Special Tribunal to prosecute persons the Commission finds have been responsible for Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and arbitrary detention.
