IPOB demands release of Kanu, amid security threat in Abuja

The Indigenous People of Biafra, a separatist group in Nigeria has demanded for the release of Nnamdi Kanu who has been in detention, saying that the capital city is no longer safe.

The group’s call was at the backdrop of Federal government’s directive to close down Colleges in the Federal Capital Territory as a result of security threats.

Making the call in a statement which was signed by the IPOB’s Spokesman, Emma Powerful, the cautioned the Nigerian authority not to allow anything happen to the detained separatist agitator in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

IPOB said, it has taken note of schools closure owing to security threats, claiming that terrorists who are threatening to tear the nation apart are those Fulani people who were groomed to take over Abuja and entire Nigeria.

The statement said: “We are reminding Nigeria and her security agencies that the world, through the UN Right group, has mandated the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the appropriate compensation paid to him without delay because he committed no crime against Nigeria and her sovereignty.

“The UN Group warned that if anything untoward happens to him it will be disastrous to Nigeria, and IPOB is ready to carry this order to the letter.

“We are advising the Fulani terrorists government of Nigeria to urgently release Mazi Nnamdi KANU unconditionally before their planned jihad in Abuja.

“We are monitoring them and the shenanigans they are playing with their terrorist collaborators to take over the government. IPOB is neither bothered nor interested in the plan of the terrorists to overrun the Nigerian government which we have rejected; our concern is the safety of our leader. We therefore, demand that the Nigerian government must release the leader of IPOB now because he committed no crime as enunciated by the UN Right group.

“As Nigeria is closing schools, businesses, and other activities because of Fulani terrorists’ threat to attack Abuja, it clearly shows that Abuja is no longer safe for people to live.”