Anambra State governor Chukwuma Soludo has said that releasing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu from captivity and security intimidation in the South-East are two different things. One segment of stakeholders in the South East has maintained that Kanu’s release would be to deflate the security crisis in the South East.
Kanu has been in detention by the Department of State Services (DSS) for about 5 years since he was arrested from Kenya by the Nigerian government in disregard of several demands for his release.
While speaking in a media chat to celebrate his third anniversary, Governor Soludo, who is among those who have been calling for Kanu’s release said;
“The release of Nnamdi Kanu for me is different from the issue of security, I separate the two, I don’t link the two. Nnamdi Kanu for me is for us to have a conversation of a long-term future for the Igbos and that is a different conversation.
For the criminals who are kidnappers, we have given them an olive branch, come out, we will train you, we will empower you, we will rehabilitate you, if you don’t we take you out.”
Soludo made his continued demand for the release of the IPOB leader with the aim of having him present so that he could be brought into a bigger discussion to establish the future of the Igbo people, “a whole lot of this Simon Ekpa and some of this his band of criminals took over and turned the things into a killing spree, just killing people with reckless abandon.”
Reports indicated that Simon Ekpa, who claimed to have become IPOB leader following Kanu’s detention, was arrested in November last year in Finland where he resides by the Finnish police for what it termed “public exhortation to an offence, committed with terrorist intent.”
Governor Soludo said that he does not know what Ekpa is looking for but to “swindle people for money.”
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