The younger brother of the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Emmanuel Kanu has lamented that the trauma of the invasion of the Kanu family compound in 2017 by the military led to the death of his parents, Eze Israel Kanu and his wife, Ugo Eze Kanu.
This is also as he claimed governors of the South East region have not taken a convincing step to meet President Bola Tinubu and demand for the release of his brother, Nnamdi Kanu.
Emmanuel Kanu, who stated this during his interview with ABN TV, “Political Perspective” on Monday, said that the governors and most leaders of the South East have not shown enough interests in working for the release of the detained IPOB leader the way Yoruba leaders worked for Sunday Igboho’s release.
The younger Kanu, who thanked the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu for appealing to President Tinubu to free Nnamdi Kanu, maintained that his brother committed no offense to warrant his continued detention.
“The South East Governors are yet to meet Mr President as a body. What are they afraid of?
“Let them go and meet Mr President and demand for the release of Nnamdi Kanu”, he said.
He also alleged that a lot of criminal activities being said to be committed in forests, including organ harvesting in Igboland were not committed by genuine members of the IPOB.
According to him, many of those being paraded by security agencies were not from Igboland.
Emmanuel Kanu said that many criminal elements who were not members of IPOB were taking advantage of Kanu’s continued detention to operate camps in the forests, but said that such would end if his brother was released.
He further said that the Kanu family were in support of the refusal of Nnamdi Kanu not to allow Justice Binta Nyako to handle his case, having earlier recused from the case.
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