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Kanu’s American Lawyer, Fein, Writes Facebook, Demands Ban On Nigerian Govt

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Bruce Fein, an international lawyer and spokesperson for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has requested that the Nigerian government be banned from Facebook.

He branded President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as a criminal business that is perpetrating genocide and crimes against Biafrans and other ethnic and political groupings.

It also requested that Facebook criticize the government for attempting to suppress IPOB’s free speech.

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Fein made the requests in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the social media website Facebook and its parent firm Meta Platforms, dated May 18. (formerly Facebook, Inc.).

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The American media magnate is also the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder of the company.

Fein’s letter obtained by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, reads, “I represent the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader Nnamdi Kanu. For more than a century, Biafrans have been denied their international law right to self-determination, i.e., government by the consent of the governed, successively by the United Kingdom and the radical Fulani-controlled Government of Nigeria. IPOB’s ongoing campaign for self-determination through a United Nations conducted referendum is protected free speech and association under international law.

“I am aware of the Nigerian government’s high decibel clamor for Facebook to ban IPOB and its members from the social media platform for allegedly inciting violence. The clamor is predicated on the Nigerian government’s proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organization in September 2017. The whole story is more revealing.

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“The proscription flouted due process. IPOB was denied notice and an opportunity to respond. The proscription was the fact-free ipse dixit of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Despite

Nigeria’s hectoring for more than four years, no other country in the world has proscribed IPOB, including the United States and the UK. Indeed, five human rights experts of the United Nations Human Rights Council wrote President Buhari in October 2020, asking for evidence that IPOB was complicit in terrorism. They were ignored. “Meanwhile, President Buhari threatened a reprise of the 1967-1970 genocide of Biafrans if IPOB did not surrender their right to self-determination under Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and otherwise.

“Accordingly, I am respectfully requesting that Facebook rebuke the Fulani-controlled Government of Nigeria for seeking censorship of IPOB’s free speech. Facebook should also consider banning the Government of Nigeria as a criminal enterprise featuring genocide and crimes against humanity against Biafrans and other ethnic or political groups. The incriminating evidence is voluminous and will be supplied on request.”

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The Nigerian government urged Facebook and other social media sites on Tuesday to cease enabling IPOB to use their platforms to purportedly foment violence and ethnic hate in Nigeria.

According to the government, any social media outlet providing a forum for IPOB, which has been designated as a terrorist organization, is unacceptable.

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From June 5, 2021, until January 13, 2022, President Buhari banned Twitter activities in Nigeria, accusing it of endangering the country’s business survival.

 

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