Release Kanu To Restore Peace In South East, Ohanaeze Youths Beg Tinubu

The Federal Government has been urged to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to restore peace to South East.

Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He has been in the custody of the State Security Services since 2021 when he was renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya by Nigeria’s intelligence agency.

He is accused of jumping bail in 2017, running a proscribed group and inciting troubles, among others.

He was denied bail on Tuesday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Binta Nyako rather pledged an accelerated hearing in his trial.

The position of Ohanaeze youth wing was contained in a statement by its National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike. Nnabuike, in the release, which he appealed to President Bola Tinubu government to leverage on Kanu’s statement during a press conference on Tuesday that his release would bring peace to the South East.

Nnabuike stated that Kanu’s continuous detention was not doing the country any good, adding that, “It was in the overall interest of Nigeria’s security that he should be granted bail and allowed to attend his trial from home.”

He continued, “Nigeria has been contending with all manners of insecurity from different quarters for years now, even before President Tinubu came on board, but any non-kinetic approach that would bring about peace should be speedily embraced by the government.

“We have no doubt that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has the capacity to call those behind the insecurity in the South-East region to order.

“Our appeal to Mr President is that he should not behave like former President Muhammadu Buhari who acted in a manner that made him look like he was happy with the carnage going on in the South-East.”

Nnabuike appealed to President Tinubu not to listen to individuals or groups that might advise him against releasing Kanu.

Quoting him, “Those calibre of people do not mean well for the president and his government. Their interest is to make every part of the country continuously unsafe, thereby derailing the government’s renewed hope agenda.”