Women From Nnamdi Kanu’s Community In Abia Embark On Protest, Demand Immediate Release From Detention

Women of Isiama Afara Ukwu in Abia State, the community of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, have held a peaceful protest against the continued detention of the IPOB leader by the Nigerian government.

The women who were armed with Kanu’s portrait, singing a protest song, demanded immediate release of the IPOB leader from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) where he has been held since June 2021 when he was extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya for alleged terrorism and treasonable felony.

SaharaReporters had reported how the South-East Governors Forum agreed to meet with President Bola Tinubu and engage with the Nigerian government to secure Kanu’s release from detention.

Similarly, members of the Labour Party (LP) caucus in the South-East Houses of Assembly have also called for Kanu’s release.

The lawmakers said the release of Kanu would separate genuine agitators from criminals and kidnappers as well as douse insecurity in the South-East.

According to the lawmakers, Kanu's prolonged detention was emboldening criminal elements posing as agitators to engage in unlawful activities in the South-East region.

Also, no fewer than 50 federal lawmakers from diverse political parties and regions in Nigeria have written to President Tinubu, appealing for Kanu’s release from detention.

The lawmakers urged the President to invoke Section 174 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Section 107(1) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, to facilitate Kanu's release from detention, and expressed belief that the action would significantly contribute to restoring peace in the South-East.

gidgiddy:
These are the women they want you to believe Nnamdi Kanu is terrorising and killing their sons

Nobody in the South East believes Nnamdi Kanu or IPOB are terrorists, only non-South easterners who want to protect their long failed "one Nigeria" believe so

gidgiddy:
These are the women they want you to believe Nnamdi Kanu is terrorising and killing their sons

Nobody in the South East believes Nnamdi Kanu or IPOB are terrorists, only non-South easterners who want to protect their long failed "one Nigeria" believe so

Ojiofor:


Osama Bin Laden have supporters too nothing new.
Boko haram leader has his own supporters.

YorubaNiBaba:
Make dem protest naked, we wan see their hairy chests and yam legs

Broveens42:



Ya but the difference is that kanu’s supporter groups are registered in more than 50 countries, including the United States, but I haven’t heard of boko

YorubaNiBaba:
Make dem protest naked, we wan see their hairy chests and yam legs

Ojiofor:


They are peaceful in those countries and are not a threat.Let them call for sit at home in any of those countries and see what happens.

gidgiddy:
These are the women they want you to believe Nnamdi Kanu is terrorising and killing their sons

Nobody in the South East believes Nnamdi Kanu or IPOB are terrorists, only non-South easterners who want to protect their long failed "one Nigeria" believe so

ZIAZI:


Keep living in self-denial! Do you know how many people died because they were following Kanu's orders? I mean his orders to kill, maim, and destroy. Did you obey the order?

Broveens42:


You sound so incoherent .
They do protest openly, which is same civil disobedience as sit at home. The only difference between you and developed nations is; you see a call for sit at home(civil disobedience) as a call for war


Africa is doomed with your lots