Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, has shared his strong desire to help bring peace to the Southeast by offering to stand as a guarantor for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Speaking to reporters on Monday, January 6, after a visit to Governor Alex Otti of Enugu State, Abaribe urged President Bola Tinubu to listen carefully to the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, and other key voices calling for Kanu’s release.
Abaribe emphasized that releasing Kanu could help end the violence and criminal activities that have been troubling the Southeast for a long time. “I expect that the President will listen to both his Attorney General and everyone of us who have been agitating that the issues in the Southeast; first of all the insurgency, the sit-at-home on Mondays and every other thing we have noticed in the Southeast, what we now know in the Southeast is that criminals and all other people who advocate violence have taken over and using the name Nnamdi Kanu to perpetuate all these their despicable acts,” he said.
The senator continued by stating that Kanu’s release would bring stability back to the region, helping restore Southeast Nigeria to a productive and peaceful place. “We know that the President, being a listening President, will also look at all the issues involved which we have presented to him from various mediums and that he will do the needful and release Nnamdi Kanu so that it will put a stop to all these things that are happening in the Southeast and bring back the Southeast as the hub of production in Nigeria,” Abaribe added.
Abaribe, who is ready to be a guarantor for Kanu’s release, believes that this action will help stop the dangerous criminal activities in the region, including kidnapping, cultism, and violence that have been falsely linked to Kanu’s name. “So, we continue to call on President Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu and we are ready and willing to be guarantors for him to be released so that we can have life coming back into the Southeast and take it away from the criminals, kidnappers, the cultists and dangerous elements that are floating around us who have made it a point that they would perpetrate violence, do criminal activities and use Nnamdi Kanu’s name as their reason,” Abaribe stated.
Since Kanu was re-arrested and brought back to Nigeria in June 2021, the legal battles for his release have continued. Despite a court order for his release, the Nigerian government has kept him in custody.
