Widow of former Biafra Republic leader Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to free the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
Bianca Ojukwu who was recently appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs said releasing Mr. Kanu who was tricked by Department of State Security agents and arrested in Nairobi, Kenya since 2021 will bring peace to the Southeast. Kanu is being tried for alleged treason.
“There are so many killings, unrest and kidnappings going on today in the region, which is not how it used to be,” said Bianca Ojukwu during a memorial for the late Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Tuesday in Owerri. She advised the people of the South-East to look inwards and appraise the Igbo race that made them who they are.
She condemned the act of killing people in the region “in the name of a sit-at-home directive from non-state actors.”
“Many people from the South-East have left the region for other cities like Lagos and other places due to the spate of insecurity in the area. I was sad when an Igbo person in the U.S. told me that they are making donations in America to buy burial grounds to bury their dead relations as insecurity in the region doesn’t allow them to do that at home come home,” the minister stated.
The event organiser, Raph Uwazuruike, urged Mr Tinubu’s government to release the IPOB leader.
Mr Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, stressed that Mr Kanu’s release would help the region experience peace again.
He said the memorial service was to commemorate Mr Ojukwu’s legacies, adding that “all the good things he stood for will not be forgotten.” NAN
