Bruce Fein, a United States lawyer of Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded with Facebook to ban the president Muhammadu Buhari-led federal Government.
The lawyer said the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company should consider banning the Nigerian Government for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and the people of the southeast.
This was in reaction to the call by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, saying Facebook was not doing enough to bar IPOB from inciting violence using the platform.
Reacting in a letter he addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, Fein Fein accused the Nigerian Government of proscribing IPOB and denying the group the right to defend itself.
Hid letter reads partly: “I am aware of the Nigerian Government’s high decibel clamour for Facebook to ban IPOB and its members from the social media platform for allegedly inciting violence. The clamour is predicated on the Nigerian Government’s proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organization in September 2017. The whole story is more revealing.
“The proscription flouted due process. IPOB was denied notice and an opportunity to respond. The proscription was the fact-free ipse dixit of Nigerian President Muhammdu Buhari.
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“Accordingly, I am respectfully requesting that Facebook rebuke the Fulani-controlled Government of Nigeria for seeking censorship of IPOB’s free speech.
“Facebook should also consider banning the Government of Nigeria as a criminal enterprise featuring genocide and crimes against humanity against Biafrans and other ethnic or political groups. The incriminating evidence is voluminous and will be supplied on request.”
