Ohanaeze Urges FG to Produce Kanu in Court, Oct 21

Ohanaeze Urges FG to Produce Kanu in Court, Oct 21

Gideon Arinze in Enugu

Apex Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to ensure that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was produced in court on Thursday, October 21, 2021.

The organisation also expressed its readiness for a meaningful dialogue with the federal government alongside the Council of Elders, Council of Traditional Rulers, the Igbo governors, Igbo NASS members, government officials, Archbishops and the Clergy, stakeholders, youth and women wings, town union, to address the plethora of challenges facing the Igbo nation and Nigeria.

The organisation noted that its core objective was a sense of belonging in a country anchored on equity, justice and fairness.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia, on Monday, the organisation said it was necessary to prove to the global community that Nnamdi Kanu was not only hale and hearty but that shady judicial process was not contemplated while on trial.

Ohanaeze noted that the agitation and youth restiveness in the South East of Nigeria was a reaction or an effect of an orchestrated alienation by the federal government over the years.

The organisation maintained that until some of the issues of obvious injustice against the Igbo were seen to be addressed, the chains of catastrophe that threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria may be inevitable.

“History shows that it is extremely difficult to have peace amidst injustice. Emphatically, we need not look elsewhere to know that IPOB is simply an exponent of Igbo collective sentiments and predicaments in our tortuous journey and an unquantifiable sacrifice for one Nigeria” it said.

The organisation noted that its President General, George Obiozor had in his inaugural speech on January 20, 2021, called on the Presidency to consider dialogue as a panacea to peace, insisting that the jackboot approach to the IPOB uprising will rather aggravate the precarious situation.

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