{"id":83878,"date":"2021-07-20T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83878"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:24:08","slug":"world-igbo-congress-plans-worldwide-protest-over-killings-nnamdi-kanus-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/world-igbo-congress-plans-worldwide-protest-over-killings-nnamdi-kanus-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"World Igbo Congress plans worldwide protest over killings, Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Igbo Congress (WIC), has announced the authorization by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Prof. Anthony Ejiofor, for worldwide protest rallies on Wednesday, July 21 2021, to bring awareness to the world of the insecurity and cycles of killings from Southern Kaduna to Eastern region of Nigeria dominated by Christians.<\/p>\n<p>WIC Public Relations Officer, Basil Onwukwe, in a statement, on Monday, said that the worldwide protests will also serve as a demand for the immediate release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who was arrested by the Nigeria government from Kenya and currently being detained in the custody of the Department for State Service, DSS, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Onwukwe stated that the protest rallies were long overdue because Christians all over Nigeria today live under the spectre of the shoot-at-sight order by the government of Nigeria when they agitate against the lopsided behaviour of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Pan-Igbo group said that the recent insecurity tension in the country could escalate into another religious \/ethnic conflict the way it was going, noting that the British government never thought that Islamic terrorism would become a worldwide phenomenon when they conspired and aligned with Russia and the Arab World, to murder Igbo Christians during the Nigerian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other similar groups are now committed to the destruction of our way of life. In Nigeria, the Jihadists comprise the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), the Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen to kill indigenous people in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorld Igbo Congress is using the protest to alert the international community to stop any agreements or assistance to Nigeria that overtly or covertly has the potential to enable the looming genocide through acts of government and the Foreign Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe also request for an immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (MNK) who was recently illegally arrested by the Nigerian government in connivance with the government of Kenya. He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Demanding fairness and true leadership of his people is not a crime,\u201d WIC stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Onwukwe, \u201cWIC will continue the pursuit of the referendum because it is the inalienable right of indigenous people of the world to self-determination like recently happened in Britain (Brexit) and Scotland to determine our peaceful state of actualization.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Igbo Congress (WIC), has announced the authorization by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Prof. Anthony Ejiofor, for worldwide protest rallies on Wednesday, July 21 2021, to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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