Leader of Biafra release

ARRAIGNED: Mr. Nnamdi Kanu,
detained leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, with a Prisons official, at the
premises of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
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BIAFRA: I am ready to negotiate with FG-
Kanu
ON August 13, 2016 10:00 AM / IN
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA —Detained leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, on
Friday, said he was ready to negotiate with
the Federal Government to regain his
freedom from Kuje Prison. Kanu who was
hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra and
Television, has been in detention since
October 14, 2015, when he was arrested by
security operatives upon his arrival to
Nigeria from his base in the United
Kingdom.
He is answering to a six-count treason
charge alongside two other pro-Biafra
agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin
Madubugwu.
Trial Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High
Court in Abuja had on January 20, ordered
that the defendants should be remanded in
prison custody, pending the determination
of the case against them.
Meanwhile, briefing journalists in Abuja on
Friday, Kanu, through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, denied having any links with the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta, MEND.
The IPOB leader said he never gave MEND
the nod to negotiate with the federal
government for his release from detention.
“In the past few days, the media was awash
with news on negotiation going on between
the Federal Government and the members
of MEND, where our client’s name (Nna-mdi
Kanu) conspi-cuously featured.
“It is on that note that we wish to inform
the general public that Nnamdi Kanu has no
connection, contact, ties or any form of
relationship with the members of MEND.
“As such, MEND has no implied, direct or
express authority of Nnamdi Kanu to
represent him or IPOB in any purported
negotiation, going on between MEND and
the Federal Govern-ment. “The general
public is accordingly advised to ignore,
discountenance and disregard the falsehood
being peddled by MEND. Nnamdi Kanu does
not know them!
“However, Nnamdi Kanu is not averse to
political solution, in resolving his present
politically orchestrated ordeal. Kanu
welcomes genuine political solution to this
case.
“The FG does not need to sponsor their
repre-sentatives to travel to far away
Bayelsa State or the creeks of Niger Delta
region, in order to reach Nnamdi Kanu. They
know where they kept him, which is easily
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