Thursday, July 4, 2024 -Okonkwo stated this while speaking on Arise Television on Wednesday, July 3. The Labour Party chieftain said Kanu has not committed worse crimes like other separatists whose cases in court have been dropped.
“Nnamdi Kanu has not done anything
that other people from other zones have done. We know about Sunday Igboho of
the Yoruba nation agitator. We know of the Boko Haram people who say that they
want a different country where Western education is an abomination.
These people have been released, not just
that they have been released; in the case of Boko Haram, they have been
reassimilated into society and given plum jobs. Why is Nnamdi Kanu’s case
different? There is an ethnic and some unnecessary bias that is keeping that
man in jail.
The
government should be wise enough to release this man. You can release him
conditionally or unconditionally. As a lawyer, I have watched the legal issues
very clearly, and I saw that even in the courts, from the high court to the
supreme court, there are discordant tunes amongst them. Even in the issue of
bail, some of the tiers of the court have granted him bail. Even in the issue
of the charges, some tiers of the court have quashed all the charges.
So, you can
see that the government has a lot of places it can stand to release the young
man and bring peace to the South-East.
He is now
more like a political prisoner. The longer Nnamdi Kanu is in prison, the taller
he becomes and the shorter the government becomes,” he said
Recall that the IPOB leader has been
in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, since he was
extradited from Kenya in June 2021. Kanu is currently facing terrorism charges
filed against him at the federal high court.
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