The Nigerian government’s reluctance to follow the orders of the Appeal Court that discharged the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has prompted some women in Aba, Abia State, to take to the streets in protest.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of Security Service (DSS) in Abuja since he was arrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in June 2021.
The Court of Appeal had on October 13 ordered the IPOB leader’s release, having dismissed the remaining six-count charge levelled against him by the federal government.
The federal government had asked the Court of Appeal to stay the execution of the judgment discharging Kanu, pending the resolution of an appeal it filed at the Supreme Court.
The protesting women demanded the immediate release of Kanu, describing his arrest and detention as unacceptable.
Most of the women, masked, displayed placards that bore various inscriptions such as ‘release our son’, ‘Freedom for Biafra’,’ free Nnamdi Kanu’.
They also used the opportunity to also denounce the terrorist movement killing innocent people in Nigeria’s southeast region.
