Ohanaeze flays S’East govs over Kanu’s continued detention

• HURIWA calls for end of incarceration

The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, insisted that Igbo should hold South-East governors responsible for the delay in securing the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, noting that the delay is a signal that he has been sacrificed for 2027.

MEANWHILE, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on President Bola Tinubu to end the continuous detention of Kanu, describing it as unjust.  

HURIWA argued that the prolonged detention and continued judicial proceedings against the IPOB leader are clear violations of his fundamental human rights and an abuse of judicial processes.
  
HURIWA emphasised that the government has no concrete evidence linking him to any crimes yet continues to detain him under humiliating conditions.  The group stated that Kanu’s medical condition often deteriorates in detention, and securing permission for his doctors to attend to him requires intense legal battles against the Department of State Services (DSS). 

The National Coordinator of the rights group, Emmanuel Onwubiko, asked: “Why is Kanu being treated like this in the 21st century? It is unfortunate that a democratically elected government, which claims to promote good governance and fundamental freedoms under the 1999 Constitution, continues to violate the rights of a man who has committed no crime.”