Asari Dokubo, a Niger Delta leader, has urged President Bola Tinubu against releasing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Dokubo gave the advice while addressing journalists on Friday after meeting with President Tinubu at Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.
The Niger Delta leader explained that setting Kanu free means glorifying criminality and gruesome murder of innocent people said Kanu should face the law.
The embattled IPOB leader was re-arrested in 2021 and kept in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
He has been in custody standing trial for terrorism.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had granted him bail in 2017 but he flouted the bail conditions and subsequently fled the country, and was thereafter re-arrested.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari had resisted pressure to release Kanu, but with the entry of a new government, there have been calls for the IPOB leader’s release.
Speaking on Kanu’s detention, Dokubo said, “Releasing Nnamdi Kanu is rewarding criminality and rewarding gruesome murder of innocent people,” he said at the. “He should face the law for the actions and instigations he has carried out.
“On security, I want to clearly say that there are full-scale wars going on in different parts of this country. In the South East, the IPOB/ESN is waging a full-scale war against the government of this country and many local governments, many communities are deserted, schools are closed, and hospitals are closed,” he added.
