…Makes fresh demand for his release
From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged President Ahmed Tinubu to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who was exactly at the weekend four years in DSS detention facility in Abuja since his extradition from Kenya.
National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Ezechi Chukwu, who made the fresh demand in a statement released to newsmen at the weekend, regretted that the IPOB leader has been in detention for four years without justice.
The statement reads in part: “27th June 2025 marks four years of Nnamdi Kanu’s unlawful arrest and detention in Kenya, prior to his extradition to Nigeria. Here in Nigeria, the question of Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention poses a moral burden on the corporate integrity of the Nigerian judicial system.
“Since the Judiciary is a principal arm of the government, Kanu’s custody by extension, therefore, gives rise to the interrogation of the strange mannerism of the Nigerian government’s adherence to the tenets of rule of law, compliance with the prevalence of fundamental human rights, conformity to normative regulations and subscription to body of statutes, irrespective of social stratum, religion, ethnicity and other avoidable mundane prejudices and institutional biases.
“The world is watching the extent the Nigerian authorities wish to procrastinate the imperative of releasing Nnamdi Kanu.
“Since his process of extradition from Kenya is unlawful and the basis for his arraignment questionable, one wonders the rational for detaining Nnamdi Kanu for four years without justice.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo at his juncture, therefore, urges President Tinubu to deploy his constitutional powers and diplomatic instruments to release him, in the spirit of equity, fairness and inclusive justice.