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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, due to his deteriorating health to avert any danger.
This was contained in a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful.
He said the Federal Government was intentionally provoking IPOB by refusing to release its leader even when the courts had ordered his unconditional release.
The statement read in part: “The global family of IPOB, once again calls for the unconditional release of our leader from DSS solitary confinement over his deteriorating health. The Federal Government is intentionally provoking IPOB by refusing to release our leader even when the Nigerian and international courts have ordered his unconditional release.
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“IPOB wishes to reiterate that the life of our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is in danger in the solitary confinement of the DSS in Abuja. We have persistently called on the Federal Government to release our leader as both international and local law institutions have ordered his release.
"It is worrisome that even though prominent Nigerians, including religious and traditional rulers as well as members of the National Assembly, have called for his release, the Federal Government has refused to listen to the voice of reason by refusing to release Kanu, just like his notorious predecessor’s government of Muhammadu Buhari.
“Tinubu’s government has discontinued similar cases of terrorism and treason charges against two Yoruba activists and a Fulani militia leader.
“In the case of an Igbo man, unarmed freedom activist Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, this same government has vehemently refused to release him.
"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had subsisting local and international judgments that ordered his release, unlike the other cases discontinued by the federal government without any court judgment.
“We are enumerating all these injustices to demonstrate that the Federal Government of Nigeria is intentionally provoking the anger of IPOB and Ndigbo. IPOB has maintained a non-violent approach in the Biafran struggle irrespective of the high-handedness of the Nigerian government against Biafran activists.
“Kanu is seriously sick and must be released unconditionally from DSS solitary confinement for him to treat himself before something unpredictable and unimaginable happens to him.”
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services since his extradition from Kenya to Nigeria in 2021.
The statement added: “Kanu has been detained in solitary confinement for over three years. Although no court in Nigeria has found him guilty yet he is being persecuted by the tribal bigot government of Nigeria.
“President Bola Tinubu, please note that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is sick and something terrible can happen to him if he is not released. Nothing must happen to him in the DSS solitary confinement in Abuja."
