‘Keeping Nnamdi Kanu in detention is dangerous’ MASSOB, Ohanaeze Cries

In spite of the acquittal of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director Radio Biafra, by a Magistrate’s Court in Abuja, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) is yet to release him.
Even after Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court, on Thursday, ordered Kanu’s immediate release from DSS detention, the security agency is still holding him in custody.

This disregard for the court ruling has drawn the ire of the Movement for the Actualization of the State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Ohanaeze Youth Congress (OYC)

Uchenna Madu, speaking on behalf of MASSOB, said the group will continue to press for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, and will never stop identifying with him.
“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by DSS after both Magistrate, Federal High courts have discharged and acquitted him of all the frivolous charges against him shows that Nigerian judiciary is not independent. The independency of the three arms of government is a complete sham, which portrays Nigeria as an undemocratic state.
“It is a sign of frustration on Nigeria because of Nnamdi Kanu, agitators for Biafra represents the very truth Nigeria knows but always avoids to identify with it. I know Nnamdi Kanu. He is a real Biafran, who can never succumb to intimidation, deviate or compromise.
“His illegal detention will worsen the already battered image of Nigeria. MAASOB will never relent in identifying with Nnamdi Kanu. We shall continue to press for his release with every legitimate action supported, backed by internationally recongised law, decrees and charters. MASSOB must maintain our non-violent stance, although we have found out that the DSS wants to re-arraign him on fresh trumped-up charges which we will resist.”
The Youth Wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo speaking through its National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, warned of the dangers associated with holding Kanu in detention.
“Nigeria is sitting on tenterhook; the looming danger of renewed protests by Kanu’s followers, sympathisers and Biafra agitators is capable of consuming Nigeria and should be avoided. For us, Ohanaeze Youth Council, we are pleading with the Federal Government to, as a matter of sacrifice for the unity of Nigeria, release Nnamdi Kanu.
“This call has become necessary because it will be extremely difficult for us to continue to calm his followers and sympathizers whose see his detention as a provocation. We know how much effort it took us to prevail on IPOB and MASSOB members to stop their protests before the court ruling, and we don’t know what to tell them again as Kanu is still in detention four days after he was discharge by a court of competent jurisdiction.
“President Muhammadu Buhari should help save the country from unnecessary tension by prevailing on the DSS to release Kanu since the courts have discharged and acquitted him.”