Father of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has accused the Federal Government of plotting to kill his son.
The man, Okwu Kanu, said the government's latest move to re-arrest his Biafra agitator's son was to have him killed.
Speaking
in an interview with The Sun, Mr. Kanu maintained that his son has not
committed any offense that could warrant a call for his re-arrest.
The
Federal Government had filed an application before an Abuja High Court,
seeking the revocation of Nnamdi Kanu's bail on the grounds that he
breached his bail conditions.
But the IPOB leader's father claimed that the bail conditions granted his son are a violation of his fundamental human rights.
He said:
"When they talk of re-arresting him, it means they want to kill him,
but God will not allow them because my son has done nothing wrong.
"I
am using this opportunity to call on the United Nations to call the
Nigerian government to order because they are planning to kill my son.
"Why will they want to re-arrest him? Did he kill anybody? Did he flout the constitution?
"Some
people are saying that my son, flouted the bail condition given him by a
Federal High Court in Abuja, but the question remains, what type of
bail condition was that? Is it possible that a person of my son’s
standing in the society could stay without meeting up to 10 persons in a
day or week?
"So, the said bail condition was against his fundamental human rights.
"The
court in the first place never restrained him from moving about. So, in
the course of going to see one or two of his friends and those people
would organise reception for him, I don’t think there is anything wrong
with that to warrant his being crucified.
"The
question I have been asking since I heard about this planned re-arrest
is whether Nnamdi is running away from the country? There is no way he
would do that. Any day they want him to appear in court, he will quietly
do that."
Okwu added that the federal government's reaction to the northern quit notice is biased compared to the Biafra agitations.
"I
read the other day that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF)
and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami said the Federal Government did
not arrest sponsors of quit notice to Igbo living in the northern part
of the country because of the security implications.
"From
what he said, it was not that the Arewa youths did not commit any
offense, but the issue is that the Federal Government is afraid of what
will come out of such arrests and allowed them to move freely.
"On
the other hand, they are making move to get Nnamdi Kanu, who had done
nothing re-arrested because they believe nothing would happen if they do
that, but they may be making the greatest mistake.
"It
is this treating people from a certain part of the country as being
superior to others that is making the agitation for Biafra to gain
momentum on a daily basis."
Nnamdi Kanu was first arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) and spent 18 months in detention.
He was granted bail on April 25, 2017, by Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja federal high court.
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