The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has given the Federal Government 11 days to free its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, unconditionally.
IPOB Head, Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem, said the Southeast would be totally locked down daily, if Kanu is not released before August 9, 2021.
Edoziem, in a statement issued yesterday, explained that the lockdown is to ensure government released Kanu “hale and hearty.”
The statement reads partly: “The global community knows that self-determination is not a crime, the Nigerian government equally know that self-determination does not constitute any known offence stipulated in their constitution and therefore do not have any case against the leader of IPOB, Mazi Kanu.
“In recognition of the above fact and truth, the Directorate of State of IPOB, demands herewith an unconditional and immediate release of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on or before the 8th day of August 2021, failing which we shall commence a weekly Lockdown of Biafra land starting from 9th August, 2021.
“For the avoidance of doubt this total lockdown of Biafra land will take place every Monday until our leader is released unconditionally.
“This weekly lockdown is simply one of the measures we shall put in place to ensure that our leader is released hale and hearty.”
Kanu is currently detained under the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS.
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He has been in DSS custody after he was rearrested and repatriated from an African country, believed to be Kenya.
Upon his return, Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court had remanded him in custody of the secret police.
On Monday, DSS, however, failed to produce the Biafra agitator in court due to reasons of logistics.
According to a report, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has given the Federal Government the ultimatum of Sunday, August 8, 2021, to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
Threatening to enforce a total lockdown of the Southeast region of the country should the ultimatum is not heeded, the secessionist group urged governors and leaders of the region, who allegedly had a hand in the arrest and abduction of Kanu from Kenya, to pray that nothing untoward happens to him in detention.
In a statement addressed to the Nigerian government, IPOB’s Head, Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem said should anything hurtful happen to Kanu, the land of Biafra would not accommodate anyone of them.
The statement read partly: “The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra is very much aware of the strategy of the government of Nigeria to subject the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra worldwide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to media trial and to convict him in the public before giving him that public conviction, an official stamp of the compromised Nigerian judicial system.
“The global community knows that self-determination is not a crime; the Nigerian government knows equally that self-determination does not in any way constitute any known offence stipulated in their constitution and therefore do not have any case against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
“In recognition of the above facts and truths, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra demands herewith an unconditional and immediate release of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on or before August 8, 2021, failing which we shall commence a weekly lockdown of Biafraland, starting on Monday, August 9, 2021.
