IPOB gives FG August 8 ultimatum to release Nnamdi Kanu else…

Nnamdi Kanu: IPOB threatens total lockdown in south east

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has given the Federal Government the ultimatum of Sunday, August 8, 2021, to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally or a ‘weekly lockdown’ will be enforced in the southeast.

IPOB in a statement by its Head of Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem said the weekly lockdown will take place from August 9 until the IPOB leader is released hale and hearty.

The statement read partly: “The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra is very much aware of the strategy of the government of Nigeria to subject the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra worldwide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to media trial and to convict him in the public before giving him that public conviction, an official stamp of the compromised Nigerian judicial system.

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“The global community knows that self-determination is not a crime; the Nigerian government knows equally that self-determination does not in any way constitute any known offence stipulated in their constitution and therefore do not have any case against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

“In recognition of the above facts and truths, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra demands herewith an unconditional and immediate release of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on or before August 8, 2021, failing which we shall commence a weekly lockdown of Biafraland, starting on Monday, August 9, 2021.

“For the avoidance of doubt, this total lockdown of Biafraland will take place every week until our leader is released unconditionally. This weekly lockdown is simply one of the measures we shall put in place to ensure that our leader is released hale and hearty.”