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US lawmaker demands Kanu’s release from detention

The member representing District 139 in the Texas House of Representatives, Jarvis Johnson, has asked the Federal Government to immediately release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. In a statement released on Monday, Johnson accused the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), regime of engaging in “genocide and crimes against Biafrans.” He called on the US government to compel the Nigerian government to immediately release the “foremost freedom fighter.” “Mazi Kanu is the foremost Freedom Fighter for the rights of oppressed people in Nigeria. For over 19 months, after he was kidnapped in Kenya, tortured, and illegally taken to Nigeria, he has been in solitary confinement. In July 2022, a United Nations Working Group, after its deliberations on his matter, called for his unconditional release. “The Nigerian Government has not complied. On October 22, several Nigerian trial and appeals courts, acquitted and discharged him of all the bo...