Lawyer writes Finnish ambassador over IPOB’s activities

Osuagwu Ugochukwu, a human rights lawyer, has alerted Finland over the conduct of a Nigerian lawyer based in the country with known affiliation to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

This was contained in a letter addressed to the Finnish government, through its ambassador to Nigeria.

A video urging south-easterners to quit the Nigerian military following an alleged capture and execution of troops by Boko Haram insurgents had trended on social media last week.

In a press statement on Friday, however, Ugochukwu described the claim as “false” aimed to “cause disaffection and destabilize the Nigerian troops”.

He said having thoroughly examined the video, the “said soldiers are certainly not Nigerians and the location not identified as Nigeria”.

He described a “ misguided Nigerian lawyer in Finland who, not living in Nigeria, wants to put the country on fire”.

Ugochukwu, therefore, called on the Finnish authorities to look into the activities of the lawyer while urging Nigerians to ignore the video.

The letter below:

The video publication on December 10 2019 claiming that the Soldiers being tied and shot in the bush by Boko Haram are Nigerians and thus urging Easterners to resign from Nigeria Army is most shocking and a threat to National Security.

I have examined the purported video and the said soldiers in the footage are certainly not Nigerians and the location not identified as Nigeria. Thus the wild claim that Nigeria Soldiers are being killed indiscriminately by Boko Haram based on the so called video is False and malicious publication against the institution of the Nigerian Army and Nigeria as a whole. Such publications are mischievously designed by a Lawyer based in Finland, to cause disaffection and destabilize the Nigerian troops.

He is a misguided Nigerian Lawyer in Finland who, not living in Nigeria, wants to put the country on fire by such hate speech and hate publication.

We call on the Embassy of Finland to look into the activities of this lawyer who lives in Finland and hides there to cause disaffection and aim at maligning the leadership of the Nigerian Army. We urge the Finland Ambassador to by this notice take steps in initiating action against him.

Nigerians should thereby ignore the said viral video as its manipulated and never a scene involving Nigerian soldiers. He surely would soon be brought to book by the relevant state security service and justice will be meted to him in no distant time for engaging in acts capable of destabilizing Nigerian troops and threatening National security.