HURIWA Asks Buhari To Release Nnamdi Kanu Before 2023 Election

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has said that keeping beleaguered Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu in custody is dangerous.

According to Anaedoonline.ng the rights organization stated in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and the Department of State Services, DSS, had shown no regard for the country’s justice by refusing to free the agitator.

HURIWA chastised the DSS for denying Kanu access to his counsel, purportedly in violation of court orders.

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According to the rights group, the IPOB leader’s continued incarceration and harsh treatment would exacerbate instability in the country’s southeast.

HURIWA encouraged President Buhari to promptly establish a suitable platform for all-out negotiations and conversation on methods to restore peace, security, and stability to the South East, emphasizing that Kanu’s arrest until the presidential primary elections in April was hazardous.

HURIWA believes that if Buhari acts as a true statesman and patriot by unconditionally pardoning all political detainees, including members and leaders of IPOB and Yoruba Nation agitators, before the 2023 presidential primary elections, history would remember him.

According to the rights group, the IPOB leader’s trial is highly politicized, and the Buhari administration has mismanaged the situation.

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The group knocked the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), who according to it, had on many occasions rushed to the media to make allegations upon allegations against the secessionist leader.

“To state a matter of fact, the President has mismanaged Kanu’s case to an extent that it has stoked tension and caused violence in the South East,” the group said.

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