Incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to release unconditionally from detention.
Kanu, in the letter written on his behalf by his lawyer Mike Ozekhome urged the President to abandon the case and pursue a political solution to the IPOB agitations. Kanu was seized by the Department of State Services during a sting operation in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2021.
He was arraign at a Federal High Court in Abuja on charges of treasonable felony and terrorism, the case has dragged with no sign of reaching a conclusion soon.
“We are Solicitors to Nwannekaenyi Nnamdi Olewu Kanu (“Nnamdi Kanu”: “our client”: “Kanu”), on whose clear instructions we write this urgent petition to your good self. The petition is to humbly urge you to order the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu through a more productive “political solution.”
“Your Excellency must avoid these unhealthy reactions by ensuring that Kanu is RELEASED IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY NOW. The moral burden of insisting on keeping Kanu in detention is too expensive and too offensive to embrace, especially with his fragile and deteriorating health condition which his custodians (the DSS) have not been able to manage properly. Do not let Kanu die in detention, sir,” the letter read.
