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Modupe Shodeinde
The family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the federal government to resolve the growing agitation for Biafra through negotiations and not by the use of force against the agitators.
Prince Emmanuel Kanu who spoke in a media interview urged the federal government to release the IPOB leader and engage him in dialogue, arguing that the issues he raised are germane.
He stated that, ” Nnamdi Kanu is only asking for three things – justice, equity and fairness. You can’t achieve peace with guns and bullets. It’s impossible!
”Dialogue is the only way out. We are Biafrans. You can’t take that away from us. Nnamdi Kanu is the face of the agitation because the issues he is raising are genuine.
“People are no longer happy. The only person they can listen to is Nnamdi Kanu. If they are telling you to release him so that they can stop what they are doing, why can’t you harken to the voice of the people?What I want is fairness, equity and justice. If Biafra will bring me that, that’s what I stand for. But make no mistakes, where my brother stands, that is where I stand!”
According to Kanu’s family, some selfish politicians who see the IPOB Leader as a threat want him to be held perpetually behind bars.
He stated that those trying to ensure the IPOB leader remains behind bars are those who were benefiting from what was happening before now and are selling wrong narratives about him.
He said that contrary to blackmails in some quarters, the Eastern Security Network, ESN, established by Kanu was inuagurated to contain attacks by killer herdsmen and bandits.
Kanu’s family further said that some fifth columnists are behind the insecurity in the South East in their desperation to implicate IPOB.
”How about what happened in Owerri where a police officer shot a security personnel thinking he was an unknown gunman? How do you reconcile that?
“We play very dirty politics in Nigeria. You see a political party killing members of another political party and at the end of the day, they tag in on IPOB. But we are not buying into that.”
The family also said that IPOB founded by Kanu remains a non violent movement seeking the restoration of Biafra contrary to blackmails by those against the movement.
“When you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. IPOB is not a violent group but a peaceful movement.
”When people choose to stay at home and some others take a walk to their business centres, what happens is that one or two politicians will send people to go and kill them and tag it on IPOB”
