Detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has written to the president of the United States of America, drawing his attention to his travails in the hands of the Nigerian government as well as the alleged cases of genocide against Christians of Igbo extraction.
Kanu, in a letter to Trump recalled how he was kidnapped from Kenya in what he called an extraordinary rendition operation, an act that violated Kenyan and international law, as condemned by a Kenyan High Court ruling (Petition No. E282 of 2021).
“Despite this ruling, I was illegally transported to Nigeria and thrown into solitary detention in Abuja, without a valid subsisting charge and for the sole crime of defending my people’s right to life, faith, and self-determination under international law.”
He added: As a practicing Jew and a believer in the Judeo-Christian heritage that shaped Western civilization, I was honored to attend your campaign event in Des Moines, lowa, in January 2020. Your bold declaration on October 31, 2025-that the United States is “prepared to act” militarily and cut aid if Nigeria fails to protect its Christian population-has ignited hope in the hearts of millions who have been abandoned by the world.
“You have seen the truth: Christians in Nigeria face an existential threat. I write to you now to reveal that this genocide is not confined to the North-it has metastasized into the Igbo heartland, where Judeo-Christians are being systematically exterminated under the guise of counter-terrorism.”
Kanu took time to outline what he called the various levels of genocide against Igbos and asked Trump to take decisive actions to stop the actions.
Hear him: “The same extremist-backed forces you have condemned in the North-Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Fulani militias-operate with state complicity in the South-East and Igbo-speaking territories of Benue, Kogi, and Delta. But here, the Nigerian military itself is the primary perpetrator, shielded by a false narrative that blames victims.
These atrocities are irrefutably documented:
- Nkpor Biafra Heroes Day Massacre- 30 May 2016
- Amnesty International (2016): “At least 150 peaceful Christian worshippers killed… bodies dumped in rivers.”
- UN Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard (A/HRC/47/33/Add.2, Para. 48): “Security forces opened fire on demonstrators at St. Edmund’s Catholic Church… at least 60 killed, over 70 injured… victims shot in the back while praying.”
- Intersociety (2016 field report): “True death toll exceeds 900, with mass graves discovered near Onitsha.” →This was not a clash. It was a massacre of worshippers commemorating their fallen.
- National High School Aba Massacre – 9 February 2016
- Amnesty International: “22 killed on-site; 13 bodies exhumed from a borrow pit near Aba-Port Harcourt Road.”
- UN Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard (A/HRC/47/33/Add.2, Para. 45): “Soldiers from the 144 Battalion fired indiscriminately into a crowd of young Christian students praying and singing hymns. No evidence of armed resistance.”
- Children were executed for singing “Sweet Jesus.”
- Operation Python Dance II-12-14 September 2017
- Amnesty International (2025 “A Decade of Impunity”): “150+ killed in raid on Kanu’s home in Afaraukwu. No soldiers died.”
- UN Callamard Report (Para. 51): “Asymmetric use of lethal force… enforced disappearances… part of a continuum of state violence.” →I survived the third assassination attempt that day. 28 unarmed civilians did not.
- Obigbo Massacre – October 2020. Amnesty International: “At least 13 civilians killed, including children; mass burials; rape used as a weapon.” A Christian town was punished for protesting police brutality.
- Port Harcourt (Igweocha) Trump Solidarity Rally – 20 January 2017. IPOB eyewitness accounts & local reports: “Hundreds of Judeo-Christian supporters gunned down by soldiers under Islamist-sympathetic command.”
He urged the US president to “launch a U.S.-led independent inquiry into state-sponsored massacres of Judeo-Christians in Eastern Nigeria, with full access to mass graves, military logs, and survivor testimonies and also convene emergency Congressional hearings on the Igbo Christian genocide, featuring:
He also wants Trump to “support an internationally-supervised referendum on self-determination for the Igbo people the only peaceful path to ending this cycle of violence, as affirmed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Article 20).
“Mr. President, history will judge us by what we do when genocide knocks. You have the power to stop a second Rwanda in Africa. One tweet, one sanction, one inquiry could save millions. I remain steadfast in peace, faith, and non-violence even from a prison cell. IPOB rejects every form of violence. We seek only justice, truth, and freedom.
“May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-who delivered Israel from Pharaoh-grant you wisdom and courage to deliver His people once again.”
