A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Nations League (BnL) has again asked the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to drop its charges against the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement sent to POLITICS NIGERIA on Monday, Ebuta Takon, Deputy Leader of BnL, warned that failure to release the IPOB leader would lead to more problems in the Eastern region.
Recall that President Buhari had during a bilateral meeting with Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister on the margins of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda, last Thursday, reiterated his earlier position that Kanu jumped bail in 2017 while he was being tried in court.
He also suggested that the IPOB leader would still jump bail if he was to be granted bail again, insisting that he must defend himself in the court.
Takon, while reacting to attacks on oil vessels and equipment in Bakassi Peninsula by militants loyal to BnL said that the group would not call for a ceasefire in the region unless the Nigerian government release all detained persons connected to the Biafran struggle, warning that all oil companies that have refused to shut down operations at maritime borders in the Gulf of Guinea will soon be forced to comply.
