The chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, David Umahi has disclosed that the leader of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will soon be released from DSS detention.
Umahi disclosed this in Abakaliki, stating that a political dialogue with President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu from DSS detention has commenced.
The governor while allocating 2.5 hectares of land located opposite the International Market in Abakaliki to the Association of Computer Village Merchants of Nigeria, lamented that many businesses are shutting down in the South-East because of unknown gunmen.
“Why do we still have unknown gunmen in Southeast? This is not the first time it is happening in Igboland. There was a time, it was so terrible in Abia, Abia state, in Onitsha and so many other places, and Igbo man knows what to do.
“We are coming to that point, businesses are moving away from Aligbo, for what? I have gone to President Muhammadu Buhari and initiated a political dialogue over our brother Nnamdi Kanu. And that process is on. And I don’t see any reason why we should be killing ourselves. Fighting our people, making sure that the economy of the south-east is down.
“Some of these people that initiated this sit-at-home are outside the country. They can never do sit-at-home one day there because they work twenty-four hours. And if they do, hunger will kill them” he said
He noted that the Igbos are the enemies to themselves pointing out that until the activities of the gunmen are halted, the region would continue to suffer economic deprivation and stagnation.
Umahi called for a concerted effort towards ending the poor treatment against Igbos by Gunmen, adding that he has met with President Mohammed Buhari on finding a political solution to the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.