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There has been a call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu from the DSS custody by the Igbo leaders, governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo, and major stakeholders from the southeast as a result of the continued detention of the Ipob leader and unrest in the region. This week, all the leaders went to the AGF seeking a political solution to the current issue. Take A LOOK AT THE OUTCOME BELOW.
Senators from the South-East numbering 15, led by a former Abia State Deputy Governor, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, met with the AGF to plead with President Bola Tinubu for Kanu’s release.
They also submitted a letter to the AGF seeking a political solution to the criminal charges against Kanu.
The clamour for a political solution to Kanu’s case has heightened recently with Igbo political and traditional leaders, including the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, pressing the Federal Government to drop the terrorism charges against the IPOB leader.
Kanu, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, has been in the custody of the Department of State Services since June 2021after he was repatriated from Kenya.
The Federal High Court in Abuja on March 19, 2024, rejected the IPOB leader’s bail application.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in a statement last Sunday, tasked all the five South-East governors and traditional and religious leaders to work as a team to push for Kanu’s release from custody.
Also, the lawmaker representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South Federal Constituency in Abia State, Mr Obi Aguocha, sought the intervention of former President Muhammadu Buhari to secure Kanu’s freedom.
A statement issued on Sunday by Aguocha’s media team quoted the federal lawmaker as telling Buhari in his Daura country home, “For the missteps, utterances, and ill gestures of the past, especially on the part of my constituent and brother, Nnamdi Kanu, I am deeply sorry.”
Aguocha recently led 50 members of the House of Representatives drawn from across the six geopolitical zones to sign a letter appealing to Tinubu to direct Fagbemi to invoke section 174(1)(c) of the 1999 Constitution as amended and section 107 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, in setting the pathway to reaching the desired outcome.
Meanwhile, the IPOB leadership warned those frustrating the release of Kanu to desist from doing so, saying their ‘unholy’ acts were being monitored.
The group said this in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday.
The IPOB leader appealed on Wednesday when he appeared for the continuation of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
A viral video captured him denouncing killings in the South-East fuelled by IPOB’s agitation for separation of the Igbo from Nigeria.
In a conversation with his lawyers, who pointed out to him that he needed to speak up to stop the killings, Kanu said, “I condemn any manner of killing. Every manner of killing, I condemn in its entirety.’’
“I want people to understand that IPOB was founded on a non-violent principle and we maintain that up till this very day. Some of these soldiers, we’re told, are also our people. And the families are now in mourning. All the making of young widows is condemned in its entirety. I don’t want it, I don’t want anybody to die.’’
Kanu, through his lawyer, Ejimakor, informed Justice Nyako and the prosecuting counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), that “The defence wants the case settled out of court.” Continue reading.