Nnamdi Kanu
Intimidation and harassment are also being
employed by the officials of the Kuje prisons to break his spirit all in
a bid to make him renounce the struggle for a free, and independent
Biafra.
Meanwhile, the Ogurushi Igbo, Chief Rommy
Ezeonwuka has warned of the dire consequences of holding the leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in detention.
The detained leader, he said, has not done
anything wrong to deserve the ill-treatment and continued incarceration
and reminded the Federal Government that the present agitation which it
seems to be making light of will escalate into a full-blown crisis in
Nigeria should anything thing untoward happens to the detainee in
prison.
“The agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra will enter into a
dangerous dimension if anything untoward happens to Mr Kanu in prison. I
do not think that young man has done anything deserving of the
suffering he is going through in prison. I do not think that somebody
without a gun or any dangerous weapon who is protesting in his own way
the marginalization of his people and demanding that they be allowed to
be on their own deserves to be incarcerated this long”.
“Boko Haram insurgents are being tried and
released even in the face of killing people, but Kanu was not caught
with arms, neither was he training any violent group. So on what basis
should they continue to hold him? He is only saying that his people are
marginalized and therefore should be allowed to have their own country.
That has not called for the kind of trial he is going through. Which
treason are they talking about? I advise the Federal Government to
release him unconditionally,
It will be better for the authorities in Nigeria
to heed this warning and plea to release him now without any condition
attached before the situation snowballs into an armed conflict, he
warned.
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