Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has claimed that the detention of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has nothing to do with insecurity challenge facing South East region.
Recall that the IPOB’s leader had been detained by Department of State Services for about 5 years since his arrest from Kenya by former president Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, despite calls from different quarters for his release.
Meanwhile, many Nigerians, including civil society groups have been calling for the release of Kanu, saying that his release would reduce level of insecurity in the Southeast.
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Speaking on Monday during a media chat to celebrate his third anniversary, Governor Soludo said that Kanu’s release and unrest in the region are two different things.
He said: “The release of Nnamdi Kanu for me is different from the issue of security, I separate the two, I don’t link the two.
“Nnamdi Kanu for me is for us to have a conversation of a long-term future for the Igbos and that is a different conversation.
“For the criminals who are kidnappers, we have given them olive branch, come out, we will train you, we will empower you, we will rehabilitate you, if you don’t we take you out.
“A whole lot of this Simon Ekpa and some of this his band of criminals took over and turned the things into a killing spree, just killing people with reckless abandon.”
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