Biafra: Kanu cries out over Switzerland’s refusal to grant family members visa
Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, has berated the
Embassy of Switzerland in Abuja for allegedly denying travelling visa
to members of the family, following an invitation by the United
Nations, UN, to the 116th United Nations Human Rights Working Group on
Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
Kanu's family members were invited by UN as key witnesses of the mass
murder allegedly committed by the Nigerian security operatives when
the family compound was invaded on September 14, 2017, during the
Operation Python Dance ll conducted by the Nigerian Army.
Speaking, Kanu said apart from the family, "key IPOB members who
witnessed the genocide at Afaraukwu were also denied visas."
In a statement, Kanu accused the Embassy of "conspiracy, collusion and
unholy dealings with Abuja to frustrate the family and help the
Nigerian state escape punishment."
He claimed that some "Amazonians fleeing persecutions in the Cameroons
were equally denied visa by the Swiss Embassy," alleging that "it was
a clear indication that the Embassy was colluding with oppressive
administrations to suppress freedom fighters."
Kanu decried what he termed "bad faith of the Swiss Embassy in
constituting itself to an impediment to the family's bid to get
justice over the unprovoked invasion of the family house and the
disappearance of our beloved ones including our parents, Eze Israel
Kanu, the traditional ruler of Afaraukwu community and his wife, Lolo
Sally Kanu.
"Some of our family members who were invited by the United Nations
could not understand why they should be denied visas. Some Amazonians
who fled Cameroun to Nigeria who were also invited to the United
Nations by this same working group were also denied visas.
"For the fact that you house the world body does not give you the
right to deny victims and key eyewitnesses of torture and genocide
visas even when the same world body invited them."
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