The Amnesty World on Wednesday, steered safety companies and participants of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra, IPOB, to verify peace on the burial of oldsters of chief of the gang, Nnamdi Kanu, in Afara Ukwu, Abia State, on Friday.
There were reported presence of army staff within the the city forward of the funeral.
In a observation on Wednesday, Osai Ojigho, Nation Director of Amnesty World in Nigeria, appealed to the army and participants of IPOB to verify there is not any case of violence on the funeral of Kanu’s oldsters to appreciate rights of electorate.
Ojigbo advised IPOB and army to verify lives are safe and steer clear of repetition of September 2017 occasions which ended in lack of 20 lives.
The observation learn: “The Nigerian safety forces will have to workout restraint and save you a repetition of the September 2017 occasions that left no less than 20 other folks killed and a few nonetheless lacking when the army tried to arrest Nnamdi Kanu in his house in Afara Ukwu.
“Whilst regulation enforcement officials are inside of their rights to hold out their lawful tasks, using drive will have to be proportional and strictly restricted to these eventualities the place it’s completely important.
“Each IPOB supporters and safety forces will have to all the time appreciate and offer protection to human rights of all.
“Issues about imaginable violence throughout the funeral will have to be addressed inside the framework of human rights and rule of regulation.”
In a published closing weekend on Radio Biafra, Kanu, who has been at the run since 2017 when infantrymen invaded his father’s compound in Abia State after he used to be charged for treason by way of the Nigerian Executive, mentioned that he would observe occasions from in a foreign country.
The IPOB chief, Nnamdi Kanu had previous threatened to kill the kids of the Abia State Police Commissioner, Enen Okon and the Leader of Military Group of workers, Primary Common, Buratai if someone is killed throughout his oldsters’ burial.
