Maduako Igbokwe l Monday, May 16, 2022
ONITSHA, Anambra – The Federal Government has been urged to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to speak out on the ongoing sit-at-home, kidnapping and killings in the South-East being attributed to the group.
Anambra State governor, Prof Charles Soludo, who recently visited the leader of the outlawed group at the facility of Department of State Service, DSS in Abuja, said Kanu expressed sadness over the spate of killings and other forms of criminalities in the South-east and offered to prevail on his followers, through a broadcast, to maintain peace whenever he gets the opportunity to interact with them.
A United Kingdom-based Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Paul Onuachalla, who commended Soludo for the move, urged the FG to allow Kanu to make the broadcast in order to checkmate the unrest in the region.
“If he is allowed to make his position known that might help to nip the problem in the bud,” he said
Onuachalla said it was becoming evident that some infiltrators were behind the breakdown of law and order in the South-East. Onuachalla who spoke with journalists in Awka, said the visit by Soludo is capable of bridging the gap between the agitators and politicians.
