Petition. To free Nnamdi Kanu 

To Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer 

Foreign Secretary David Lammy 

Attorney-Général Richard Kermer Q.C 

Please, dear readers, sign this Petition to the Government asking them to use all their diplomatic and economic tools to obtain the immediate release of my husband, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a British Citizen, aged 57, unlawfully detained in prison in Abuja, Nigeria for the last three years. 

He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), seeking an end to the oppression of Biafrans, and a peaceful resolution to their problems. 

In June 2021 he was a victim of “ extraordinary rendition” by the Nigerian authorities who kidnapped him illegally from Kenya, drugged, blindfolded and tortured him over 8 days, and forcefully flew him back to Nigeria against his will. This has caused severe damages to his ear and heart, that require urgent medical and surgical attention. 

In spite of the United Nation Working Group recommending his immediate release and the Nigerian Appeal Court declaring his detention unlawful, and ruled that no court in Nigeria has the jurisdiction to trial him, the Nigerian authorities have ignored this verdict. Extraordinary Rendition is unlawful under international law. 

Here in the UK, I and our young children, like him British citizens, are suffering greatly, through grief, abandonment and fear, psychologically, socially and economically. The children are without their father at home, and I am without my husband. The youngest who is 8 years old keeps asking 

…. ”when will Daddy come home to pick me up from school?

Mummy will the new Prime Minister help bring Daddy home for Christmas…I hope so”. 

We are all anxious about his deteriorating health.

I , and our two young sons are being failed totally by the UK government. Their failure to act to safeguard our human rights, rights to family life, to freedom, to safety violates obligations UN Member States have under international laws, as well as under the ECHR. 

Please sign this petition. We need many signatures before we can send it to the Ministers. 

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu. 

I recommend your support of this Uchechi's petition to free her husband, a British Citizen. 

Signed 

Margaret Owen OBE.

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