The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has described the recent bench warrant issued against the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by a Federal High Court in Abuja as an invitation for trouble.
Recall that Justice Binta Nyako had issued the order on the grounds of Kanu’s continuous absence from court to face trial.
In a statement signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, Secretary General, on the apex Igbo organization noted that the order if put into effect would spell doom.
The group said it received news of the arrest order with “rude Shock and disbelief,” adding; “Weighing the implications, such action may destabilize the fragile peace that has returned to Southern Nigeria, especially Southeast and South/South after the ugly but sad experience(s) witnessed during his first arrest, and subsequently the untimely death of innocent Igbo Youths and women that characterized his detention.”
The statement said further; “There’s no need to escalate the tension already established in the Southeast over the menace of herdsmen ravaging some parts of Igbo land; there’s no need to compound our loss by allowing Nnamdi Kanu return now until Igbo Christian and Traditional leaders intervene in the process.
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“We are pleading With President Buhari as the father of the Nation to grant Presidential Pardon to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as a way to show compassion to Ndigbo. We are aware of the Presidential release of over 500 inmates of suspected Boko Haram detainees in Kano Prisons.
“Presidential Pardon to all Biafra agitators, including Nnamdi Kanu will save a lot of Billions of Naira that would’ve been used for peacekeeping, in the imminent collapse of peace and civil disturbances that will follow immediately if he’s re-arrested.
“Such billions can be used on alternative Road Projects in southeast, because Aba, Port Harcourt, Asaba, Abakiliki, Enugu, Onitsha, Nnewi and Owerri may become ungovernable as we witnessed during the last arrest of Nnamdi Kanu.”
