… Demands written clarification
BY AKUDORO GLORIA
The Biafra Republic Government In-Exile (BRGIE), has allegedly claimed that its petition on Biafra’s declaration for self-rule to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, an organ of Africa Union has been trashed.
The Biafran government blamed the unjust declined of its petition to the Commission’s Acting Secretary-General, Abiola Idowu-Ojo and Nigeria’s representative.
Lamenting on Monday in statement through his official X account, the Prime Minister of BRGIE, Simon Ekpa, through the Biafran government Attorney demanded for written clarification from the Commission as to why its petition was declined.
According to him, despite the successful 23rd of May 2024 and the response received on the 19th of June, the Commission had allegedly trashed its petition for Biafra Liberation amid rights abuses by the Nigerian government on Biafrans.
Ekpa explained that the reason given for not acting on the BRGIE petition was unfair and the commission had defaulted on its own rules.
He raised the alarm that the development may escalate tension in the region as impunity and injustices strive.
“The Biafra Government wants to officially inform the Biafra people and the world that the Nigeria representative, Abiola Idowu-Ojo at the African Court has trashed the filing of the Biafra Government.
“This development will escalate the tension in the region, it is corruption and impunity taken to the highest level at the AU by the Nigeria state appointee.
“We Successfully filed the communication on the 23rd of May 2024 and on the 19th of June, we received a response that the communication would not be seized, the reason being the failure to comply with rule 115(2)(d) of the 2020 rules of procedure.
“When you check the rules of procedure, failure to comply with rule 115(2)(d) subsequently requires rule 115(4) to be fulfilled and not the response we got”.
“Further investigation reveals that the Secretary to the Commission is a Nigerian, Abiola Idowu-Ojo and has violated the rules of procedure which she amended according to the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.
“We have further demanded an explanation as to how the procedure was not followed according to the rules and the commission never responded. We are also taking the matter up but we decided that the public must become aware of the corruption by the Nigerian representative”, he stated.
The development came after Ekpa-led BRGIE issued out an invitation to South-East political class to the upcoming declaration of Biafra liberation convention scheduled to commence 29th November to 3rd December 2024 in Lahti, Finland.