Igbo Group Seeks Release of Kanu, References Igboho, Sowore

The group under the aegis of the Concerned Igbo Citizens Council (CICC), has called on the Federal Government to approve the unconditional release of all pro-Biafra activists and other Nigerians incarcerated for self-determination agitations. 

CICC pleaded in a statement signed by its interim National Coordinator, and interim National Secretary, Comrade Ukachukwu Obioha and Mazi James Okorie. 

They commended the government for the unconditional release of Sunday Igboho, a pro-Odua Republic agitator, and Omoyele Sowore, and that the same gesture must be extended to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and all other Nigerians currently detained for similar activities. 

CICC maintained that the continued detention of Kanu and hundreds of Igbo youths over Indigenous People of Biafra activities while their Yoruba counterparts have been granted reprieve by the present administration gives “an unsavoury ethnic and sectional colouration” to the Federal Government’s action.