HRM EZE ISRAEL OKWU KANU APPEALS TO THE DSS AND THE FG: release my son without further delay

FATHER of the detained leader and director of Radio Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu Eze, HRM Isreal Okwu Kanu,  has disclosed  that his health condition has become worse since  the news of the arrest of his son was broken  to him two weeks ago.

The monarch, who made the call in Umuahia, on Monday, also disclosed that he had remained silent for sometime because he was not aware of the exact crime committed by his son that lead to his arrest and detention until he recently sent some of his children to Abuja, to confirm the true situation of things.

“My children that I sent to Abuja came back on Thursday and told me he is alive and that he spoke with them, but on the reason why they arrested him, they said it will be made known later. I  have been in pains since his detention. I think my son as an adult has the right to speak his mind. And if that is the reason they detained him, I am appealing to the government to release him for me because we are in democracy which allows freedom of speech in this country,” he said.

On the ongoing protest over Kanu’s release, his father said anybody fighting for his release, should do so in a peaceful manner without any form of violence, adding that nobody has the right to fight government.

He appeals to the Department of States Security and Federal government, stating, “I will first of all start with the Federal Government, I’m appealing to them to release my son, he has not come to wage war against the country and the Nigerian constitution made provision for freedom of speech and nothing will debar him from speaking. President Muhammadu Buhari should understand that the agitation for Biafra did not start with Nnamdi. If Buhari has any bad plans against Nnamdi, he should hands off because all of us want that freedom. As for Ndigbo, they should join Nnamdi in seeing to the actualization of Biafra. I’m not always happy that my son is putting his all in the struggle, the other man, Uwazuruike will be some­where behaving as if Nnamdi is his enemy. I’m also not happy that since Nnamdi was arrested, no governor from this zone or a known politician for that matter has ever asked for his release, it is not good. I don’t know whether they are afraid to speak out”.