By our reporter/ Separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra on Monday arrangements are being made to secure the freedom and prevent rendition to Nigeria of some of its members arrested in Ghana.
They were arrested on Sunday while having their monthly meeting around Mallam Junction in Accra on Sunday by Ghanaian police.
Aloy Ejimakor, one of the lawyers representing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who made the disclosure in a tweet on Monday, said he had sent some documents that would aid the release of the separatists.
“Update on #IPOB Ghana: A few days ago, I sent to the DOS (via @ChinasaNworu) certain legal documents critical to the defense of the faithful currently distressed in Ghana. The goal is to quickly secure their freedom and prevent their “rendition to injustices” in Nigeria,” he tweeted.
Nigerian officials had earlier extradited IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, after he jumped bail and went on the run in 2017.
His family and lawyers say he was illegally arrested in June while in Kenya, tortured, and flown back to Nigeria.
Separatist tensions frequently flare up in southeast Nigeria, where a 1967 unilateral declaration of independence for a Biafra republic by Igbo army officers triggered a 30-month civil war that left many people dead.
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