Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinnaya Abaribe has again expressed willingness to stand as a guarantor for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Abaribe made the remark while addressing journalists after his visit to Governor Alex Otti of Abia State.
The senator also urged President Bola Tinubu to listen to the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi and other stakeholders over their calls to release Kanu.
Abaribe informed Tinubu that releasing Kanu would put a stop to the issue of criminalities in the South-East.
“I expect that the president will listen to his AGF and every one of us who have been agitating that the issues in the South-East; first of all the insurgency, the sit-at-home on Mondays and every other thing we have noticed in the zone, what we now know in the South-East is that criminals and other people who advocate for violence have taken over and are using the name of Kanu to perpetuate these despicable acts.
“We know that Tinubu, being a listening president, will also look at all the issues that we have presented to him and do the needful, so that it will put a stop to these things that are happening in the South-East.
“So he needs Kanu out so that those things that are holding us down in the South-East, that have made us not produce as much as we ought to do, will not be there.
“So, we continue to call on President Tinubu to release Kanu and we are ready and willing to be guarantors for him so that life can come back into the South-East and take it away from criminals, kidnappers, 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 Kanu’s name as their reason.”
Kanu has been incarcerated since June 2021 when he was rearrested and subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.
Upon his return to Nigeria, the Appeal Court in Abuja ordered his release, but the Nigerian government refused to let him off the hook.
