{"id":369161,"date":"2021-06-30T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369161"},"modified":"2021-06-30T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:05:35","slug":"breaking-uk-govt-meets-fg-over-nnamdi-kanus-rearrest-pledges-to-assist-ipob-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369161","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: UK govt meets FG over Nnamdi Kanu&#8217;s rearrest, pledges to assist IPOB leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The British High Commission has said it will engage the Nigerian Government over the rearrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Hurlock, a spokesperson of the British High Commission, disclosed that the commission is \u201cin the process of seeking clarification\u201d from the federal government over Kanu\u2019s rearrest.<\/p>\n<p>In the message, Hurlock said the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office \u201cstands ready to provide consular assistance\u201d, TheCable reports.<\/p>\n<p>The IPOB leader, who has a British passport was arrested by Nigerian security agents and extradited to Nigeria on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu was extradited to continue his trial before the Justice Binta Nyako-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The IPOB leader is facing trial for committing treason.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu\u2019s brother, Emmanuel had disclosed that the IPOB leader was picked up in Kenya over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Commission has said it will engage the Nigerian Government over the rearrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Dean Hurlock, a spokesperson of the British High Commission, disclosed that the commission is \u201cin the process of seeking clarification\u201d from the federal government over Kanu\u2019s rearrest. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[1442,516,518,1021],"class_list":["post-369161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-abubakar-malami","tag-ipob","tag-nnamdi-kanu","tag-uk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/369162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}