TERRORISM: UK receives petition to extradite Nnamdi Kanu – Report

A group of activists from the South East region of Nigeria has reportedly written a petition asking the United Kingdom to extradite Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed terrorist Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to Nigeria for what has now been widely seen to be his incitement of violence in Africa’s most populous country.

The group, Igbo Youths in Nigeria and Diaspora, submitted the petition to British High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria.

Chukwuma Dike, the spokesperson of the group said the petition to the high commission was because Kanu, a British citizen, is bent on destabilizing the Nigerian polity.

”We are calling on the British government to extradite Nnamdi Kanu, they should open a case, let him face justice. We are calling for justice, the death is enough,” the group said.

The group furthered accused Nnamdi Kanu of being behind the killings and disappearances of former members of the group who were opposed to his violent tactics.

Dike said Kanu was turning the South East region into a war zone, pointing out that about 16 youths belonging to the ESN were recently killed by soldiers in Abia State.

He stated that the military and the police were clamping down on innocent people in the region over crimes committed by the IPOB.