Kanu sets to regain freedom – Bianca Ojukwu

Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu will be released from detention, according to details revealed by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

Speaking at the 13th year commemoration service of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in Owerri on Tuesday, Bianca hinted that President Bola Tinubu was committed to peace and will release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from detention.

Kanu was extradited from Kenya by the former President Muhammadu Buhari administration when Abubakar Malami was his Attorney General and Minister of Justice and had been undergoing trial over alleged terrorism from detention since then.

Bianca however, said, she would not rest on her oars, but will do everything possible to ensure that President Bola Tinubu consider releasing the embattled IPOB leader.

“President Tinubu understands the importance of Kanu’s release. It will expose the masqueraders behind the violence and help restore order. I will do whatever it takes to ensure His Excellency grants this request,” she stated.

Bianca stated that the release of Nnamdi Kanu would expose criminal elements who use the group as a decoy to orchestrate violence in the South East, noting that the Igbo people are not known for harming their own and called for collective action to reclaim the region from criminality and insecurity.

“The release of Nnamdi Kanu is paramount to separating genuine freedom fighters from criminals causing mayhem in the Southeast.”

“Our people face existential threats, and we must act to restore peace.”

She also decried the imposition of violent “sit-at-home” orders in the Southeast, which she said contradict the ideals of self-determination and have stifled economic activities in the region.

She said, “Ndigbo are enterprising and their brother’s keepers. We must reclaim our land and continue to propagate the ideals for which Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu stood.”

IPOB leader, Kanu has been in DSS detention after his capture and extradition to Nigeria in 2015.