The wife of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, has lamented that none of the family members has been able to reach him since he got into the custody of the Department of State Services.
Uchechi added that Kanu is believed to be beaten and tortured by the security agencies both in Kenya and Nigeria, which gives all of them great worry.
The IPOB leader’s wife, who is currently in the North of England, stated this in an interview on Sunday she granted to United Kingdom newspaper.
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Speaking for the first time since the arrest of Kanu, the wife, 40, lamented, “It’s hard for me to speak. I’m extremely devastated. He has been beaten and tortured and I am scared for his life.”
She said she and the family had had no contact with him since his arrest.
Uchechi said, “I was always worried about Nnamdi. When you’re asking for freedom from dictatorship, you are a target. But when I saw what happened in Belarus and how no one did anything, I knew nowhere was safe.
“The Nigerian government carrying out this rendition is a crime. We’re not even talking about independence,” she said.
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“We’re just calling for a referendum exactly like Scotland did with UK and UK did with the EU but the Nigerian government wants to exterminate our whole family. It’s a scandal and thing of shame that Britain is not acting to secure their own citizens.”
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