The Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government In-Exile, Simon Ekpa has allegedly that its petition on Biafra’s jdeclaration for self-rule to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, an organ of Africa Union was blocked unjustly by the Commission’s Acting Secretary-General, Abiola Idowu-Ojo and Nigeria representative.
Ekpa made this known in a statement through his official X account on Monday.
According to him despite the successful 23rd of May 2024 and the response received on the 19th of June, however, the Commission had allegedly trashed its petition for Biafra Liberation amid rights abuses by the Nigerian government on Biafrans.
Ekpa stressed 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 rm 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”.
This is as Ekpa demanded a further explanation on why the BRGIE petition was not attended to by the Commission.
“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 comes as the Ekpa-led BRGIE announced the December 2, 2024, Biafra liberation declaration after years of neglect.
This comes as the Nigerian government on several occasions hinted at plans to extradite Ekpa from Finland.
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