Abaribe: Ohanaeze Kicks, Says Only The Army Knows Kanu’s Whereabout

The Igbo apex cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has kicked against the arrest of Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe by the State Security Service (SSS) on Friday, saying only the army can explain what happened to the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu of the proscribe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Ohaneze in a statement by its president general, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said: “The circumstances prevailing at the time of the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu are beyond the contemplation of the law that a surety can guarantee the production of an accused person.

“The army in the name of “Operation Python Dance” invaded Nnamdi’s home and destabilized normalcy there.

“It is only the security agency that can disclose Nnamdi’s whereabout. Senator Abaribe has no capacity, nor has any surety in the circumstances to know the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu.”

Nwodo noted that what happened in Umuahia, Kanu’s hometown, “was an invasion, a war of a kind,” stressing that “Nnamdi may have been killed or captured in the imbroglio or even escaped into hiding.

“The onus lies on the security forces to disclose his whereabout.”

He expressed the worry that the “judiciary is beginning to tow the line of the executive by throwing the law overboard in matters that affect the South East,” noting that every Nigerian is equal before the law.

Nwodo called for the release of the senator without delay.