Breaking: Nnamdi Kanu May Be Released Soon

Indications have emerged that the detained leader of the Indegenous People’s of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu may be released soon.

The indication was given by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu

 Kalu, in a statement signed by his chief press Secretary Levinus Nwabughiogu in Abuja said that talks were ongoing to free Nnamdi Kanu from detention.

Recall that the Supreme Court recently ordered the retrial of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) who has been in detention for a long while now.

The Deputy Speaker, had while on a virtual programme on the “South East political Roundtable”, a current affairs radio programme on FLO FM in Umuahia on Tuesday, said talks were ongoing to free Nnamdi Kanu.

Calling for support to enable the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deliver he said the president was interested in the affairs of the southeast, and in the case of Nnamdi Kanu.

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“We can’t put all our programmes and plans on social media. He’s my brother. Is he in the mix of what we are trying to do? Yes! It’s one of our agendas to ensure he’s released. Who wants their brother to be in jail?

“We are working underground. There’s a detailed strategy. It’s not by violence, you can’t coerce the government through violence. It has never worked and won’t work. Let’s be wiser. The wisdom is in peace. Let’s quench the violence.

“If it’s chaotic, it won’t work. Let’s cool down. Let the man see that you’ve recognised he didn’t contribute to locking him up and that he has not done anything to the south east. We should support him and his government and not attack him. I’m standing firmly against the voice of violence, preaching peace.

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“That is what I’m here for, this voice of peace will echo through the Villa and he will come out. Mr President was happy with what happened in Bende. That the whole country can gather together and support this project.

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“We can bring you in to the rebuilding that we are doing. We can bring you in to the reconciliation. We can bring you in for rehabilitation and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is interested in the Igbos.

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“Look at what he has done by giving us the Chief of Naval Staff which we never got in the last eight years. Did I just mentioned the Naval Chief, what about the minister of works, Senator Dave Umahi, my good friend?

“Mr President gave the minister of works to an Igbo son that proves himself in Ebonyi and he said, come and build what you did in Ebonyi in the entire Nigeria starting from the five states of the South East and the only way we pay the president back is to say there will be no work on Monday?

“Look at what happened for the very first time, 15 billionaires of Igbo extraction gathered in Bende. That is to tell you that they are ready to bring their industry here, they are ready to build factories that will employ you, so why do you scare them away?

“Government cannot do everything for you. Our brothers who have money want to bring it back home. Some of them want to do it but you are scaring them away. How long are we going to sell fear to our people?”, he said.