Biafra: Ohanaeze urges FG to release Nnamdi Kanu

Biafra: Ohanaeze urges FG to release Nnamdi Kanu

By Our Reporter  on November 30, 2015
◾IPOB, MASSOB boycott meeting
From Petrus Obi, Enugu

OHANAEZE Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organization rose from its ‘imeo­bi’ meeting yesterday in Enugu and called on the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, detained Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
However, representatives of MASSOB and IPOB boycotted the meeting.
Spokesperson for both MASSOB and IPOB, Uche Madu and Emmanuel Pow­erful, said decided not to meet with any group until Kanu is released.
In a communique read by former Health minister, Prof. ABC Nwosu, the Igbo body said his release will arrest cur­rent Biafra agitations and protests.
Ohanaeze also urged government to treat Kanu’s matter as a political issue rather than a security matter and con­demned attempts to drag the situation and public expression of Ndigbo over their exclusion from the Nigerian nation into the realm of partisan politics.
The statement condemned public pro­tests and argued that all actions and ac­tivities which threatens the security and harmonious co-existence of all Nigerians, wherever they may be domi­ciled, is dangerous, which must not be encouraged.
The Imeobi, which is the highest policy organ of Ohanaeze, expressed desire that dialogue replaces public pro­tests and called for immediate creation of an ad-hoc national platform, which would address immediate causes that have triggered the present public pro­tests, revisit and address latent and long-standing issues, which threaten the evolution of Ni­geria into a modern and united nation.