The family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has written an open letter to South East Governors, seeking their immediate action and intervention to secure his release.
This is coming barely one month after the family had accused Igbo political elite of abandoning the IPOB Leader to his fate.
Prince Emmanuel Kanu who wrote the letter on behalf of the family, raised the alarm that his brother “is gravely ill”, and should not be allowed to die in custody.
He said that history would not be kind to the Governors if they keep quiet and do nothing to secure Kanu’s release who has been unlawfully incarcerated since June 2021.
Prince Emmanuel said his brother’s arrest and continued detention were politically motivated and aimed at suppressing his voice as a freedom fighter.
He insisted that his brother committed no crime by seeking justice for the marginalisation Igbo tribe and other Biafrans.
According to him, Kanu’s continued detention is because the South East Governors have not come together as a people to sincerely demand his release.
He noted that if the Governors fail to act swiftly and allow his brother to die in detention following his deteriorating health, they shall be held accountable for their docility.
“By allowing this flagrant violation of human rights to persist, your offices are complicit in the suppression of justice. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is gravely ill and dying slowly .Biafra land will hold you all accountable should anything happen to him”.
Prince Emmanuel pleaded with the Governors to set aside their political differences, and unite as one people and engage the Federal Government for the release of his brother who he lamented, “is critically ill”.
He wondered why the Federal Government had continued to release terrorists under the guise that they had repented but failed to release his brother whose crime was challenging the injustice against Biafrans.
Prince Emmanuel alleged there was a plot to kill allow Kanu die in custody and permanently silence him.
Nnamdi Kanu Should Not Die In Detention – Family Writes To South East Governors
