Wife of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB and Director of Radio, Mrs. Uchechi Okwu-Kanu has said that the
arrest and continued incarceration of her husband is a catalyst for new Biafra
agitation.
Nnamdi Kanu’s wife, Uchechi Kanu In a statement from United
Kingdom made available to Vanguard, Mrs. Kanu said “the absence of my husband
is mind-bending, it is inexplicable. I am practically a zombie but I am holding
up, but it has not been easy since October 2015 he was arrested in Lagos”.
“The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu is the catalyst driving the new
agitation. Hence, what could have taken years to achieve in terms of awareness
and mobilization was achieved within a short frame of time. And this is
testimony to the fact that IPOB through Radio Biafra did a lot of ground work
prior to the arrest.
“If you recall I mentioned in December that most people are
awaken by the call of this cause but you will agree with me now that almost
every being in the whole world has Biafra on their lips both ‘for’ and
‘against’,”Okwu-Kanu continued.
Okwu-Kanu said she has lost faith in the Nigerian system,
especially the judiciary, which she no longer believes is independent from the
“executive and the legislative arms”, adding that the President Muhammadu
Buhari once again proved to the world that he has not dropped military behavior
even as a President of a country practicing democracy.
“Buhari controls the law so there is no faith in the
judiciary, if the masses cannot get justice from where it should be given
because it is controlled by the government, then there shouldn’t be a court
after all.”
She however expressed satisfaction with her husband’s new
defense team, headed by Chuks Mouma, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, adding
that “the new team is working tirelessly to ensure the right justice is given.
They have taken the trial to another level, the Ecowas Court. The Nigerian
government has always maintained that Nigeria’s unity was a priority for the
country and that although peaceful pro-Biafran protests were welcome, but
demanding the breakaway of the Biafran territories was against the Nigerian
constitution.
