Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have said that they would soon resume protest in the South-East and parts of South-South zones of the country, to press home their demand for the release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
Kanu is being tried by the Federal Government for treason following his arrest in Lagos in December by officials of the Directorate of State Security (DSS). IPOB’s Head of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, who stated this in a statement at the weekend, pointed out that the group had endured enough waiting for the Federal Government to set Kanu free.
He said: “We have endured, we will start the protest that will bring the government to its knees,” he said, adding that the protest was earlier called off “not out of cowardice and fear but to show maturity and professionalism in what we are doing and to allow the federal government to release our leader, Kanu unconditionally.”
Emma hinted that in the temporary halt of its protests, the group availed the Buhari-led Federal Government an opportunity to take a decision and “release the man who did not commit any crime.”
The IPOB spokesman said the violent crackdown by security agencies during IPOB protests would not deter the group as “we know they will kill us as they used to do before now but in the end we will be free.”
