A Federal Officer, Ethnic Slur & The Regulation — Half 11 Of 21

Dated September 15, 2025, the petition from Ogbako Ndi Igbo UK was addressed to President Bola Tinubu and signed by its President, Dr. Charles Ukandu, and its Secretary-Basic, Ken Udeoka (ITREALMS On-line, 2025; Exhibit B-42). The Solar reported it on September 17 underneath a listing of signatories that provides the leaders of Nzuko Ndi Igbo Dundee in Scotland and of Igbo unions in Milton Keynes, Yorkshire, Manchester, London, Oxford, Swindon, the North East of England and Liverpool (Rapheal, 2025; Exhibit B-41). Two retailers reported it inside 4 days, they usually agree on its writer, its addressee and its central demand.Reported

Its cost was particular. The petition accused the chairman of reposting, from her verified account, a message that referred to as Igbo folks monkeys and the youngsters of gorillas, and it referred to as the act “a gross and unforgivable dereliction of responsibility” (ITREALMS On-line, 2025; Rapheal, 2025; Displays B-41, B-42). Quantity I established the publish, its time and its attain from the Gazette’s replica (Exhibit B-1). The Solar’s report of the petition attributes an extra insult to the reply, and this file depends on the Gazette’s textual content alone.Reported; Documented in remaining sentence

Elimination “with speedy impact” headed the calls for, adopted by a vote of no confidence in her management. The petition additionally requested the Nigerian Excessive Fee in the UK to sentence the publish in public and distance the mission from it, and it referred to as on civil society and the worldwide group to reply (Rapheal, 2025; Exhibit B-41). ITREALMS reported an extra endeavor. The signatory our bodies now not acknowledged her management of the fee and would attend none of its occasions or initiatives till corrective motion was taken (ITREALMS On-line, 2025; Exhibit B-42).Reported

That endeavor modified the petition’s character. A fee whose work is the engagement of Nigerians overseas misplaced, on the reported report, the participation of organized Igbo communities throughout Britain inside two weeks of a publish its chairman made. The petitioners acknowledged the price in their very own phrases, and the fee has not acknowledged, in any report situated, whether or not it measured it.Inference

Supply ran via Ambassador Mohammad Maidugu, Nigeria’s Excessive Commissioner to the UK, with copies to 4 places of work in Abuja: the Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation, the Senate President, the Speaker of the Home of Representatives and the Director-Basic of the Nationwide Intelligence Company (Rapheal, 2025; Exhibit B-41). ITREALMS doesn’t describe the route of supply, so the copies relaxation on one outlet’s report, and the file labels them accordingly.Reported

These copies alter the ledger Quantity II constructed. Quantity II recorded that no listening to, movement, decision or summons on the publish seems in both chamber within the data searched (Exhibit D-6). If the copies arrived, the presiding officers of each chambers held a written grievance from residents overseas by mid-September 2025, eleven days after Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s grievance to the Presidency (Exhibit B-3). The Senate President can refer a matter to committee, and sections 88 and 89 of the Structure give every chamber the ability to analyze and summon (Structure, 1999, ss. 88, 89; Exhibit A-2). No referral seems within the data searched.Reported; Inference

Discover now arrives from three instructions on the report. Ohanaeze Ndigbo wrote to the Presidency on September 4, 2025, the London petition reached the President and 4 different places of work by mid-September, and New Telegraph printed a name for elimination on September 25, as Quantity I recorded (Displays B-3, B-41). Inside 23 days of the publish, the Republic held complaints from Igbo Nigerians at dwelling, from Igbo Nigerians overseas and from the press.Reported; Inference in remaining sentence

Nigeria’s Excessive Fee in London speaks for the Republic to Britain and to Nigerians in Britain. The petition requested it for one act, a public condemnation, and the searches run for this file situated none, and no assertion from the mission on the publish in any respect (Exhibit D-15). It was the conduit. Whether or not it forwarded the petition, and whether or not anybody in Abuja acknowledged receipt, the report doesn’t present.Documented; Inference in remaining sentence

Silence from a mission carries institutional weight. By its missions, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs receives Nigerians overseas on the Republic’s behalf. When residents ship a grievance a couple of federal officer via that workplace and obtain no reply, the mission has answered for the Republic by withholding one.Inference

In accordance with The Solar, the petition described the publish as a part of a “persistent sample” of disrespect towards Igbo folks (Rapheal, 2025; Exhibit B-41). This file holds no case file that might set up such a sample, and it attracts no inference both means. Its personal report of earlier episodes is narrower. In December 2020, she informed the general public she had misplaced management of her deal with after it carried a false report, and in April 2026 she referred to as a bunch of Peter Obi’s supporters “monsters” and defended her proper to private views (Displays B-5, B-20). Neither episode involved Igbo folks as a bunch.Reported; Documented in remaining two sentences

Counter-evidence belongs beside the allegation. In June 2025, her fee’s media workplace issued an announcement in her title welcoming North Carolina’s proclamation of an Igbo Day and praising Igbo contributions, and Quantity II gave that assertion its place (Exhibit C-5). The petition’s declare of a sample is the petitioners’ allegation. The publish itself is established.Documented

The petitioners cited no statute, they usually wanted none. Part 15(2) of the Structure directs that nationwide integration shall be actively inspired and that discrimination on the grounds of ethnic affiliation shall be prohibited (Structure, 1999, s. 15(2); Exhibit A-2). Part 13 binds each authority exercising government energy to adapt to that chapter, and Quantity I set out its power (Exhibit A-2). The petition requested the President to use the target to his personal appointee.Documented; Inference in remaining sentence

Counter-evidence of one other type sits in Britain itself. NIDO UK, a separate physique of Nigerians in Britain, positioned its continued confidence in Dabiri-Erewa on report in September 2026, a 12 months after the petition, in an announcement that doesn’t point out the publish (Onje, 2026; Exhibit B-43). Two our bodies of Nigerians in Britain now stand on reverse sides of her management. The file studies each and compares neither.Documented

Ten our bodies wrote inside 13 days. They named the act, cited the account it got here from, recognized the workplace accountable for appointing her and routed the grievance via the Republic’s personal mission, asking for a treatment the regulation permits and an announcement inside the mission’s energy. By October 27, 2026, 420 days after the publish, no reply from any workplace the petition reached seems within the data searched, and the mission requested to talk has stated nothing situated. The Excessive Fee ought to state whether or not it forwarded the petition and on what date. The Senate President and the Speaker ought to state whether or not they acquired it and what they did with it. Half 12 turns to the diaspora physique whose branches advocate NiDCOM’s board.Reported; Inference; Demand in remaining two sentences

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