Following the terrorist attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja on Tuesday night, the Indigenous People of Biafra have asked that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, be transferred to a prison in the east.
IPOB was concerned about the safety of its members imprisoned at the Kuje facility and questioned the Federal Government’s ability to safeguard them.
The demand was made by IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, in a statement issued on Thursday, stating that its members who were wrongfully imprisoned should be released.
He said, “We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, under our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, wish to let the world know that IPOB members were profiled and detained in Kuje Prison yards for simply being indigenous to Biafra and of Igbo race.”
He also stated that if anything happened to any of the IPOB members, it would not be taken lightly.
“We have their (IPOB members) details and want them alive because if anything untoward happens to our comrades, who are detained in Kuje, IPOB will never take it easy.
“It is high time these innocent folks are released. Nigeria cannot continue to detain them indefinitely while allowing terrorists and bandits to come and slaughter them under disguised arrangements.
“A very pertinent question to ask is how can bandits and terrorists be rampaging the North, even supposedly attacking the President’s convoy and breaking into prison yards to release their colleagues, while the government deployed and continue to deploy battalion of soldiers to occupy many peaceful communities in Biafraland?
“Our intelligence unit uncovered an evil plan against our leader. We are, therefore, demanding that our leader, Kanu, be transferred immediately to a prison in the Eastern region for his safety.
“If anything untoward happens to him, Nigeria will see and feel total and consuming madness. Even after the Biafran nation’s freedom is fully achieved, they will never have peace.”