The Lawyer of Simon Ekpa-led Biafra Republic Government In-Exile, Jonathan Levy has demanded the removal of the Nigerian representative at the African Commission in Peoples and Human Rights(Africa Union’s organ), Acting Secretary-General Abiola Idowu-Ojo.
Levy was made known in a protest statement letter to the Commission seen by our correspondent on Tuesday.
This comes as the pro-Biafra agitator on Monday accused Idowu-Ojo of refusing to attend to BRGIE’s petition for Biafra self-rule amid the marginalization and human rights violation by the Nigerian government against Biafrans.
In a follow-up, BRGIE in a letter by its Attorney told the Commission to recuse the Executive Secretary, Idowu-Ojo on grounds she’s biased and unjust towards the plight of Biafra Liberation.
“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. 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”, BRGIE’s lawyer, Levy stated.
