OHANAEZE YOUTHS SEEK BUHARI’S INTERVENTION IN KANU’S ARREST ORDER
The leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the order for the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the arrest of Kanu and directed that his trial on charges of treasonable felony should proceed in his absence. The court also revoked the bail it granted Kanu in 2017.
However, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, and Secretary General, Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement on Saturday,
said such action might destabilise the fragile peace that had returned to the
South-East region.
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo
youths noted that Kanu’s first arrest witnessed widespread instability in the
region, calling on President Buhari to pardon Biafra agitators as a way of
showing compassion to Igbo.
The statement read in
part, “The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide received the
pronouncement and re-arrest order of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by a Federal
High Court in Abuja with rude shock and disbelief.
Weighing the
implications of such action, it may destabilise the fragile peace that have
returned to the southern part of Nigeria, especially the South-East and
South-South after the sad experiences witnessed during his first arrest and
subsequently the untimely death of innocent Igbo youths and women that
characterised his first arrest and detention.
And there is no need to
escalate the tension already established in the South-East over the menace of
herdsmen ravaging parts of Igboland. There is no need to compound our loss by
allowing Nnamdi Kanu return now until Igbo Christians and Traditional leaders
intervene in the process.
We are pleading with
President Buhari as the father of the nation to grant presidential pardon to
Nnamdi Kanu, as a way of showing compassion to Ndigbo.’’
The Ndigbo group noted
that there was no better time to re-unite all parts of the country than now.
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