BIAFRA NEWS : South-East Senators beg FG for Nnamdi Kanu’s release

 

 

The Senators from the South East Region of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja met with the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to plead with President Bola Tinubu, for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

Addressing judiciary correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the AGF, the lawmakers bemoaned Monday’s sit-at-home order and killings in the South-East.

They stated that the economy and social life in the South East has been crippled due to the continuous attacks by the perpetrators of these deeds. 

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The Senators numbering 15 and led by a former Abia State Deputy Governor, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said the persons behind this mayhem have claimed that unless Kanu is released, the social and economic activities in the South East region will continue to be stagnant.

He said, “These are the South East Senate caucus, we are here to see the minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation on an important matter to the people of the South East concerning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his incarceration.

“The South East Senate caucus just like the rest of the people in the South East, the business leaders, the clergy, the political people, and the rest of the people in the South East are all very worried about it knowing the fulcrum of what is happening in the South East regarding the insecurity. 

 “All the criminals and people going around causing mayhem in the South East have all said that it is because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is being held. We know that this is not the truth it’s just that we have gotten to the point where people are now hijacking a legitimate call for his release and turning it into something that has led to deaths and destruction of properties and so many other indescribable mayhems that is happening in the southeast. 

“So we came to meet with the Attorney-General because we know that at the end of the day, everything that happens in the legal system will eventually come to his office so we came to appeal to him to let Mr President know that all leaders of the South East feel that the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will help in dousing all the tension on everything that is going on in the South East and we are very certain that his duty as the Attorney-General also gives him the powers to not only prosecute but make sure that litigation don’t continue and the sufferings of the people does not continue,” Abaribe said.

Abaribe also disclosed that on behalf of the caucus, he met with Kanu on Monday at the headquarters of the Department of State Service and Kanu has agreed to abide by the terms of any conditional release granted him.

Recall that Kanu was re-arrested in Kenya in 2021 by the Federal Government and brought to the country for trial on terrorism charges.

Although Kanu pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, declined to admit him to bail on the grounds that he earlier jumped the bail granted him where in Senator Abaribe was his surety.

Since his re-arrest, Kanu has been in the custody of DSS even though he filed an application before Justice Nyako to admit him to bail or transfer him to the Kuje correctional facility or the option of a house arrest, the court denied all his requests.