Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada Factional leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Uchenna Madu has chided Southeast governors and lawmakers for not visiting the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Madu, in an interview in Aba, Abia State, at the weekend, said it was regrettable that since Kanu’s detention and trial, no lawmaker, governor or traditional ruler has visited him in Kuje Prison.
According to the MASSOB leader, the stakeholders’ inability to visit Kanu was because they were afraid of being “sidelined”.
“They have not visited him because some of them are cowards and afraid of being sidelined.
“If truly Igbo blood is flowing in them, they are to visit Kanu.
“The Southeast traditional rulers’ council should go and see Nnamdi Kanu. Their visit will show the world that our people are in solidarity with him.”
Commending “Nzuko Umunna” members, led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, for visiting Kanu, Madu urged the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, led by Nnia Nwodo, to visit the Kuje Prisons immediately.
He said: “I’ m expecting the Ohanaeze Ndigbo President to lead a delegation to visit Kanu because Kanu is bigger than Ohanaeze.
“He is the most visible symbol of the Biafra struggle
“He is suffering for our people and our people should not abandon him at this moment.”
Speaking on the relocation of MASSOB’s administrative headquarters, Madu said the decision was a unanimous agreement by stakeholders.
He added that the choice of Enugu was also for administrative convenience and the centrality of the new location, which he said is the capital of Biafra.
“The administration of MASSOB or Biafra shouldn’t be in somebody’s house or village, so we decided to leave that place and allow Ralph Uwazuruike to return to his father’s compound.
“Yes, we have lifted the ban and have forgiven him in the spirit of Biafra. We can’t continue to keep grudges. We have handed his matter over to the ancestors to handle him. We can’t continue to play god.”
