BRGIE Lauds U.S. Govt. for invoking Accountability Act & sanctions on Nigeria
Recall that Biafra Government In Exile Ably led by Nkere as Acting Prime Minister had submitted a Congressional testimony to the United States Congress Human Rights Commission in response to the June 24, 2025 congressional hearing “Transnational Repression. Also on 18th september 2025 Nkere led over 50 Biafran Citizens residence in the United State of America to the U.S. Capitol Hill White House in what is termed ‘‘First Ever U.S. Congressional Briefing on Biafra’’ where testimonies of Christian Genocides, Religious Persecution & human Human Rights Violations were enumerated in the Capitol against Nigeria.
Below are the Recommendations made by the testimony;
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS: On the basis of the foregoing, we most respectfully request for the following:
(1) Urge the United States to invoke the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of P.L. 114-328) to identify and impose travel and financial restrictions on all officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria and any Nigerian non-State actors implicated in the killings of Biafran Christians in their homeland in Southeast Nigeria;
(2) Urge the U.S. government, including through targeted sanctions and/or tariffs, to pressure the government of Nigeria to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and allow him safe passage out of Nigeria.
(3) Urge the U.S. government to pressure the government of Finland, including through targeted sanctions and/or tariffs, to end its politically motivated trial against pro-Biafra activist Simon Ekpa.
(4)Urge the United States to deny all bilateral assistance and visas to officials of GON if it continues to engage in transnational repression against pro-Biafra activists, and if Simon Ekpa and Nnamdi Kanu continue to be held in detention. Please reach out to myself, as well as our voices in Washington, DC, international attorney Arman Dabiri and Washington, DC political consultant Elias Gerasoulis of Moran Global Strategies, if you need additional information.
This was the first time ever that U.S. Congressional testimony has ever been provided on the Biafra issue in modern history. The testimony is officially a part of the congressional record, and is publicly available for viewing on congressional website. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Committee is Co-Chaired by Congressman Chris Smith and Congressman Jim McGovern. Congressman Smith is a leading critic of Nigeria’s persecution of Christians, and chaired a hearing on Nigerian Christian persecution in the U.S. Congress in March of 2025. Mr. Nkere’s testimony details Nigeria’s human rights abuses over the years towards the Biafrans, and in detail described how Nigeria’s detention of Biafran leaders Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa are examples of ‘trans-national repression’. The testimony accused Nigeria of ‘kidnapping’ Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya, as well as instigating a politically motivated trial against Simon Ekpa in Finland. The testimony recommended to the U.S. Congress that the U.S. government impose visa bans on Nigerian officials as well as sanctions and tariffs, as well as cut off bilateral assistance, if Nigeria fails to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and provide him safe passage out of Nigeria. The testimony also recommends to the U.S. Congress that the U.S. government impose sanctions and tariffs on Finland, if it continues its politically motivated trial of Simon Ekpa.
