The Federal Government has been dragged to an Owerri High Court over the rights of the indigenous people of Biafra to self-determination and compensation for deaths and losses suffered by the people of the South-Eastern Nigeria in the hands of federal forces during the war.
The suit, brought by a human rights group under the aegis of Bilie Human Rights Initiative in suit No. FHC/OW/CS/102/2012, commenced on Tuesday.
The plaintiff wanted the court to give an order “for the self-actualisation and self-determination of the People of Biafra.”
Commenced through originating summons, the suit also sought for compensation for the deaths and losses suffered by the people of South-Eastern Nigeria in the hands of federal forces/government, which they viewed as haranguing, genocidal and economically strangulating.
The group said they were determined to forge a new nation, Republic of Biafra, with its land, littoral and continental shelves.
They sued Nigeria as represented by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney-General of the Federation to Owerri Federal High Court over the inalienable right of the descendants of the ancestors of Biafraland who are the remnants that were not consumed by the 1967-1970 genocidal war in which about three million Biafrans were killed.
They are praying the court to pronounce the territory as it was pre-1967 independent and sovereign in the light of relevant charters on human and people’s rights, the realities of the incompatibility of those who make-up the geo-space called Nigeria among others.
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