– Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention will
stir chaos in the Southeast says Ohaneze
Youths Council (OYC)
– The OYC says ill-feelings are already
brewing up in the region
– OYC claims that it is unfair for unarmed
and harmless pro-Biafrans to be kept in
federal custody
– The group has also warned against the
alleged plots to unseat Governor Okezie
Ikpeazu of Abia state
Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC) has said that
the continued detention of leader of the
Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi
Kanu by the Federal Government was
“escalating tension and ill-feelings” in the
Southeast.
Nnamdi Kanu’s prolonged detention will
spark an uproar in the Southeast, says
Ohaneze Youths Council (OYC).
The group reaffirmed its position on Sunday,
August 7, urging the government to release
Kanu with no further delay.
OYC said that it has intelligence report that
the continued detention of Kanu could spark
off “a total breakdown of law and order in the
entire South East and South South zones
soon.”
In a press statement, OYC noted that Kanu’s
continued detention even against court
orders portrays President Muhammadu
Buhari’s administration as anti-Igbo.
According to the statement signed by its
National President, Mazi Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, the group said: “intelligence reports
available to the Igbo youths indicated that
there could be a total breakdown of law and
order in the entire South East and South South
zones if Kanu is not released soon.”
Vanguard reports that the OYC expressed
dissatisfaction that the Federal Government
would continue to hold Kanu who has never
taken up arms against the state while
captured members of the Boko Haram terror
group were being released from detention.
“It beats the imagination that terrorists who
have been responsible for the death of
innocent Nigerians are being released while
unarmed freedom fighters are kept behind
bars against court orders.
“This bias poses serious threat to our peace
and national unity, and we hope the
President will address it before it becomes
too late”, the group lamented.
On the political crisis in Abia state, OYC
warned against any action that could further
escalate it and urged all parties to wait the
outcome of courts’ resolution of the crisis.
The group however said that it supports the
State’s Charter of Equity principle which
supports recommends power rotation among
the senatorial zones for justice and fair play
to thrive.
“Anything that truncates the zoning
arrangement in the state could pose security
threat which will not be in the interest of any
body. As Igbo youths we can’t afford to sit
back and watch any Igbo state be put into
avoidable crisis.
“Removing Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu who is the
first and only governor from Ukwa/ Ngwa zone
amounts to shortchanging the entire Abia
South zone as other zones have produced two
term governors. We advise that the wise
decision of the founding fathers of the state
who put in place the power rotation
arrangement be respected to give peace a
chance,” the OYC stressed.
Meanwhile, embattled Radio Biafra leader,
Nnamdi Kanu has spoke from his prison
custody on Monday,July 25, claiming that it
was not his choice to stir the agitation for
Biafra, but a call made by God.
The detained leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) insisted that his
decision to restore the nation of Biafra was
not his personal choice but a mandate from
the Most High God (Chiukwu-okike-abiama)
which was assigned to him from time
immemorial.
Kanu maintained that the restoration of the
nation of Biafra is a priority and a project
that must be achieved under the watchful
eyes of the IPOB led by himself, an arduous
task that must be accomplished in order to
lead his people out of the contraption called
Nigeria, without fear of death.
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