By Umar Audu

Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu, has vowed to ensure that President Bola Tinubu release the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who has been in detention since 2021.

Mrs Ojukwu disclosed this at the 13th memorial anniversary of her husband Odumegwu Ojukwu in Owerri on Tuesday.

Mr Kanu is facing charges bordering on terrorism, treason among others at the Federal High Court in Abuja

According to Vanguard reports, the minister said the release of the IPOB leader will reveal the masquerade behind insecurity in the South-East region.

“President Tinubu understands the importance of Kanu’s release. It will expose the masqueraders behind the violence and help restore order. I will do whatever it takes to ensure His Excellency [Tinubu] grants this request,” she stated.

“The release of Nnamdi Kanu is paramount to separating genuine freedom fighters from criminals causing mayhem in the South-east. Our people face existential threats, and we must act to restore peace,” she said.

Delivering her remarks on the theme: “Unifying the Igbo Race”, Mrs Ojukwu called for an end to the violence in the South-east.

The minister argued that Igbo people are not known for harming their own, stressing that there was a need for collective action to reclaim the region from criminality and insecurity.

She lamented that, years after the death of her husband, a revered Igbo leader, the South-east has become a hotbed of violence and insecurity.

“Communities are empty. Our illustrious sons and daughters have fled. Kidnappers now abduct their brothers for ransom. This is not what Dim Ojukwu fought for,” she said.

Mrs Ojukwu also criticised those who impose violent sit-at-home in the South-east, saying that “Sit-at-home contradicts Igbo ideals”.

She said the illegal order contradicts the ideals of self-determination and has stifled economic activities in Igbo land.

“Ndigbo are enterprising and their brother’s keepers. We must reclaim our land and continue to propagate the ideals for which Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu stood,” she stated.

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