The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has urged the Federal Government to release the apprehended leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu over unjustifiable detention.
The group, on Tuesday, noted that Kanu’s court hearing may no longer be guaranteed due to conflicting legal proceedings in different courts.
In a communiqué issued on Tuesday, after its general meeting presided over by the group’s Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, at Isanya-Ogbo, the hometown of its leader, Ayo Adebanjo, the group argued FG that Kanu should be released in the interest of justice and national reconciliation.
In the statement signed by both Olaitan and the National Publicity Secretary of the group Justice Faloye, Afenifere describes Kanu as a political detainee; with no justification for his continued detention without trial.
“Afenifere notes that from all circumstances, particularly since his abduction in 2021 and repatriation to Nigeria and since then subjected to controversial and conflicting legal proceedings in different courts by which his fair trial may no longer be guaranteed in the opinion of reasonable members of the public, it is clear that Nnamdi Kanu is undoubtedly a political detainee”.
Dele Farotimi was also appointed by the Association as the National Organizing Secretary of Afenifere.
“The General Meeting considered and approved the appointment of Barrister Dele Farotimi as the National Organizing Secretary of the Afenifere”.
Afenifere also reiterated the call for state police, adding that the vast territory, population, and federation cannot be effectively and meaningfully secured with a single command of unitary police, and thus the need the restructuring to ensure immediate constitutional institutionalization of state police.