Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has argued that the Federal Government no longer has any morality to keep on detaining their son in view of the recent confession by the ex-Niger Delta militants’ Leader, Asari Dokubo, that his (Dokubo’s) men are in oppression in the South-East.
The family which spoke through Prince Emmanuel Kanu demanded explanations from Dokubo what the mission of his said men in the South-East is.
Prince Emmanuel expressed shock over the docility of the Federal Government about the disturbing confession by Dokubo, in addition to his open threat against the Igbo race.
He said that the public admittance by Dokubo after a recent visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja, that his men were in operation in parts of South-East, was a vindication for the IPOB Leader who had been falsely accused of sponsoring the insecurity in the zone.
Kanu’s family said that the Federal Government needed not to look any further for the masterminds of the insecurity in the South-East often blamed on IPOB and operatives of Eastern Security Network, ESN.
The family further said the Federal Government had lost every justification to further hold Kanu in detention when somebody had openly admitted responsibility for certain unknown operation in the South-East.
“Why are they still keeping my brother in detention when somebody has publicly admitted that his boys are in Abia, Anambra, Imo and other parts of South-East?
“The fundamental questions are: what is the mission of the men Asari said he deployed to South-East? Who are these his men? When have Asari’s men become part of the Nigerian security?
“Could these men be the amorphous unknown gunmen ravaging South-East which security agencies label ESN and IPOB? Why is nobody asking the right questions?
“Why will Asari Dokubo, a self acclaimed repentant militant visit the seat of power, and before the view of the whole world make these shocking confessions, threaten to kill the Igbo nation, yet no security agency has invited him for questioning?
“We have always said it that Nnamdi Kanu is a victim of grand conspiracy. The Federal Government cannot deny knowledge of the real source of insecurity in the South-East, yet it keeps pointing accusing fingers at Kanu and IPOB.
“If Asari Dokubo publicly admitted that his men are in South-East, Niger State and up to Plateau State, then why are they still holding Nnamdi Kanu? Is that boast not enough to suggest to us the brains behind the insecurity in these areas with active connivance of compromised security agencies?
“The United Nations should come in and hold Nigeria and Asari Dokubo responsible for the killings in South-East. Nigeria should be made to free Kanu who is unjustly detained while those who should be in prison walk freely making arrogant boasts.”
Kanu was arrested in Kenya and extraordinarily renditioned to Nigeria in June 2021, and has since then, remained in a solitary confinement at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS.
