Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention capable of consuming Nigeria, Ohaneze warns

The youth wing of pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has urged the federal authorities to set Director of Radio Biafra Nnamdi Kanu free, for the sake of peace in the country.

In a statement by its National President Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the OYC added that it will no longer be able to calm the restive pro-Biafra protesters as long as Kanu remains in jail.

“Nigeria is sitting on tenterhook; the looming danger of renewed protests by Kanu’s followers, sympathisers and Biafra agitators is capable of consuming Nigeria and should be avoided. For us, Ohanaeze Youth Council, we are pleading with the Federal Government to, as a matter of sacrifice for the unity of Nigeria, release Nnamdi Kanu.

“This call has become necessary because it will be extremely difficult for us to continue to calm his followers and sympathizers who see his detention as a provocation. We know how much effort it took us to prevail on IPOB and MASSOB members to stop their protests before the court ruling, and we don’t know what to tell them again as Kanu is still in detention four days after he was discharged by a court of competent jurisdiction.

“President Muhammadu Buhari should help save the country from unnecessary tension by prevailing on the DSS to release Kanu since the courts have discharged and acquitted him.”

Kanu was arrested on October 17 by DSS operatives, shortly after he arrived Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom.

Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court had last Thursday, ordered Kanu’s immediate release from DSS detention.

“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by DSS after both Magistrate, Federal High courts have discharged and acquitted him of all the frivolous charges against him shows that Nigerian judiciary is not independent. The independency of the three arms of government is a complete sham, which portrays Nigeria as an undemocratic state”, said leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, in a statement.