Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), a pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, has tasked Igbo leaders to continue to press it on President Bola Tinubu to ensure the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
The president of NUF, Chief Augustine Chukwudum, told newsmen in Enugu on Tuesday that the release of Kanu would end Monday sit-at-home permanently in South-East.
According to Chukwudum, Kanu’s release from detention would reduce all the atrocities going on in South-East, where criminals commit crimes on the pretense of self-determination.
“We mandate South-East governors, senators, House of Representatives and prominent traditional rulers, Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Ambssador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, prominent Umuada Igbos from the seven states to meet with President Tinubu on this vital matter,” he said.
The NUF boss also pleaded with President Tinubu to heed to clarion call to release Kanu to check billions of naira traders lose each Monday and other days when speculations of sit-at-home were rumoured.
“The insecurity in the region has deprived our children education, thereby taking us backward academically.
“We are also recalling various appeals made to former President Muhammadu Buhari by elder statemen like late Chief Mbazurike Amaechi and late Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu,” he added.
