BY AKUDORO GLORIA
The Attorney of the Biafra Republic Government In-Exile (BRGIE), Dr. Jonathan Levy has demanded the removal of Atg. Secretary General of the African Commission in Peoples and Human Rights, Africa Union and Nigeria’s representative, Mrs. Abiola Idowu-Ojo.
This is sequel to the accusation by the Biafran government through its Attorney on Monday that the AU Atg. Secretary General, Mrs. Idowu-Ojo declined BRGIE’s petition for Biafra Self-referendum amid the marginalization and human rights violation by the Nigerian government against Biafrans.
In a follow-up letter issued to the Commission on Tuesday, BRGIE Attorney told the Commission to recuse the Secretary-General on grounds of being biased and unjust to the plight of Biafra liberation.
The letter read in parts: “In May 2024, Biafra filed an urgent communication with the main human rights organ of the African Union, the African Commission in People’s Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, Gambia. The communication detailed and summarised the Extended human right violations in the Eastern region of Nigeria as well as details on the ongoing Biafra Self-referendum set to conclude at the end November, 2024.
“Before the Commission could meet and consider the BRGIE communication, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, a Nigerian citizen and lawyer educated in Nigeria, summarily dismissed the communication on grounds it did not state a case or contain any facts. The procedural rules of the ACHPR that mandate the Executive Secretary explain her position and allow Biafra to amend the communication were ignored. Â Two further requests for instructions from Biafra to the ACHPR Secretariat went unanswered.
“BRGIE has requested the ACHPR Commissioner to recuse the Executive Secretary on grounds that a Nigerian citizen and product of the biased Nigerian educational system including its elite universities, cannot comprehend the plight of Biafra or its people as they have been instructed by the earliest age, that Biafra is never to be mentioned or acknowledged.
“The BRGIE implores that the African Union does not follow the disastrous anti-Biafra position of its predecessor the OAU which misused its position to oppose Biafran independence. The genocide of 1967-1970 must never be repeated. The BRGIE has attempted to place the matter of human rights and the BiaSelf-Referendumndum before the African Union. If the African Union refuses to take up the challenge, that organization must be relegated to the garbage pail of history as a relic of neo-colonialism.
“Biafra stands firm and steadfast and as sure as its rising sun emblem, Biafra will be the beacon for a new Africa free of neocolonialism where every man, woman, and child can live their lives without fear government-sponsored marauders and the voracious kleptocracies which enslave Africans while selling our dearly won resources cheap to the former colonial masters.”