A member of the House of Representatives, Obi Aguocha, has decried the treatment of Ndigbo in Nigeria when compared to other tribes.
The member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency, Aguocha, said the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, ought to have been granted the same privilege given to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore.
In an interview with Arise TV on Tuesday, Aguocha stated that while Igboho and the former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Sowore, enjoyed the privilege of Section 174 of the 1999 Constitution, it is not the same for Kanu.
He disclosed that Kanu’s detention remains an injustice that has been condemned by stakeholders.
“I can tell you, a whole lot of things have been done, not just by me, but well meaning Nigerians, stakeholders who have found this to be an issue of injustice.
“The last time I was there, I said it would appear that there are two sets of rules in Nigeria, one for every other Nigerian, another one for the Igbo man. Where every other Nigerian will scale certain circumstances, the Igbo man will find it very difficult to scale.
“What we thought would have been more meaningful is the invocation of section 174, of the Nigerian constitution that allows the Attorney General before the determination or a judgment of the court that he can write to withdraw the matter.
“There are precedents that are already been set on this. So we are just asking, Well, the way they have done for Igboho, the way they have done, for Sowore and many others, that Nnamdi Kanu is entitled to those fundamental rights, right as a citizen,” Aguocha said.
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