Ifeanyi Ejiofor, legal adviser to Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra has confirmed that the residence of the IPOB leader is currently “under siege by trigger happy soldiers acting under the direct instruction of the Chief of Army Staff.”
Ejiofor in a statement on Tuesday said the IPOB leader had been placed under house arrest and that the soldiers were shooting sporadically into the air, adding that there casualties.
According to the lawyer, at the moment, he does not know if Kanu is dead or alive.
He said, “Casualties are being counted as the unprovoked assault progressed. The figures can’t be ascertained now. They drove in their thousands to arrest and maim him. I just got a distressed call from him now. Further efforts to establish contact with him has remained unsuccessful.
“As it stands now, I can’t confirm whether he is dead or alive. The operation python dance presently launched by the Buhari led administration in the south east, principally targeted at eliminating my client, is yielding the desired result to the presidency, having launched a man hunt for my client and unarmed members of indigenous people of Biafra. Let the world know that the federal Government has practically abandoned their case in court in search of a brute route to eliminate my client. As I type this statement, his residence has been cordoned off by the military, a majority of whom are of Fulani extraction.
“The world should hold Buhari led federal government responsible if anything untoward happens to Nnamdi Kanu. The situation is very tense at the moment.”
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