By Raphael Ede
Enugu
Arising from meeting Igbo socio-political organisation, Njiko Igbo Forum (NIF) yesterday called on the federal government to release without further delay all detained Biafra agitators.
The call contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting held at Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat in Enugu attended by over 200 prominent Igbo sons and daughters.
It read: “We appeal for the immediate and unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB, Benjanin Onwuka and his other detainees of the Biafran Zionist Movement and all other pro-Biafran detainees.
“We still wonder why Sen. Ali Ndume who has been enjoying his seat in the National Assembly and even now as the leader of the Senate, went to lesser Hajj this year, yet he is standing trial on a treasonable felony for sponsoring Boko Haram.”
The group pointed out that Biafran agitators are non-violent like Boko Haram and for this reason should not be molested.
“Boko Haram has been more brutal than the armless and harmless pro-Biafran agitators, except our nation Nigeria is an ‘animal farm’ where though all animals are equal but some are more equal than the others.”
The group, who did not hide their allegiance to the Nigerian nation also called on President Buhari, to as a matter of urgent national importance, fast-track the process of implementation of the 2014 National Conference report handed over to him, “as we consider it the only panacea to peace, true federalism and calming of nerves to various monstrous and fired-up agitations that may engulf our nation, Nigeria.”