Nnamdi Kanu's court appearance: IPOB to storm Abuja today. Insists on Kanu’s freedom

Nnamdi Kanu's court Appearance: IPOB storms Abuja tomorrow. Insists on Kanu’s freedom

The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has called on its members and other pro-Biafra groups to mobilise in Abuja today in solidarity with their detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, whose release they demand.

This follows the news that Kanu, who is also Director of Radio Biafra, will likely appear in court at Abuja to answer to fresh charges of treasonable felony levelled against him by the federal government.

IPOB’s National Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Emma Powerful, made the group’s plan known in a statement made available to The AUTHORITY on Sunday via text message.

According to Powerful, IPOB members will storm Abuja to express their anger over the reported continued maltreatment being meted on Kanu by the Department of State Security (DSS) which has detained him since 14th October, last year.

IPOB members and their sympathisers therefore plan to insist on their demand for Kanu’s immediate release.

He said that the pro Biafra group was worried about reports that the DSS officials have continued to torture Kanu and deny him access to his lawyer, his doctor and even denied him newspapers.

Powerful said that Kanu has been compelled to sleep on the bare floor, which has made him not to sleep well, and described such treatment as pure wickedness aimed at terminating his life. The pro Biafra spokesman said that the wicked acts being meted on Kanu has negatively affected his health condition, warning repeatedly that IPOB would not take it lightly if anything happened to him.

“We have on several occasions told president Buhari and DSS to release our leader and that we will not keep silence and sleep if anything happens to Kanu.

“Let me use this opportunity to repeat that the world will see the full wrath of IPOB if anything happens to Kanu in DSS cell,” he added

In the same vein, the pro- Biafra group has warned politicians of the All Progressive grand Alliance (APGA) and All Progressive Congress (APC) to watch their tongues and avoid making derogatory statements about IPOB and the Biafra struggle.

The group accused the said political parties of associating IPOB with politics, which undermines the dedicated and committed efforts towards realization of independent statehood for Biafra.