Kanu is Seriously Sick, Release Him To Avert Danger – IPOB Tells Tinubu

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have announced that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is seriously sick. They urge the Federal Government to release him to prevent any potential danger.

Emma Powerful, IPOB’s spokesman, stated on Wednesday that the government’s refusal to release Kanu, despite court orders for his unconditional release, is a deliberate provocation.

“The global family of IPOB once again calls for the unconditional release of our leader from DSS solitary confinement over his deteriorating health condition. 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,” the statement read.

Powerful emphasized that Kanu’s life is in danger while in solitary confinement in Abuja. He noted that despite pleas from prominent Nigerians, including religious and traditional leaders, as well as members of the National Assembly, the government remains unyielding.

“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,” Powerful said.

He continued, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had subsisting local and international judgments that ordered for 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 Biafra struggle irrespective of the high-handedness of the Nigerian government against Biafra activists.”

Powerful warned, “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.”

IPOB called on President Bola Tinubu to act swiftly, stressing the urgency of Kanu’s health situation. They reminded the public that Kanu has been held by the Department of State Services since his extradition from Kenya to Nigeria in 2021.

“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,” Powerful added.

In a plea to President Tinubu, IPOB concluded, “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. As John F. Kennedy said, ‘Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable’.”