By Nwabueze Okonkwo & Chimaobi Nwaiwu

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its Directorate of State, DOS, yesterday described as a welcome development, the call by Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly, SNPA, on President Muhammadu Buhari to release its leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, and other Biafra activists detained by the Federal Government.

Demonstrators from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group wave flags and hold a sign reading “Freedom for Biafra” during a protest calling for the release of pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, on September 23, 2016, in the Abidjan suburb of Treichville.
Near one hundred Biafran Nigerians protested on September 23 in Abidjan, calling for the release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, according to an AFP .

IPOB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Emma Powerful, said: “We praise the courage of SNPA for having the boldness to speak out the truth concerning the illegal detention of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members and other Biafra activists, who were granted unconditional release by the court of competent jurisdiction in Abuja and are still in detention.

“The leaders of the SNPA, including the former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, foremost nationalist, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, former Federal Minister and leader of Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, Archbishop Gbonigi, Chief Femi Okurounmu, and others, who were in that meeting in Umuahia, have done SNPA people proud, for standing up to say it the way it is.”

“These few group of men have shown that they deserve respect from the Southern Nigerian people; we praise them for the truth they have told the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC government. They are really fathers and elder statesmen, who know the real foundation of this country.”