Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has declared that no Nigerian deserves to be in prison in the country if killer herdsmen, Boko Haram insurgents get arrested, are freed, and rehabilitated by the government.
Kanu made the declaration in a tweet on Monday.
“If Miyetti Allah terror herdsmen & other murderous #Fulani groups, including Boko Haram insurgents, can be arrested, freed and rehabilitated by this neo-colonial Fulanised, @NGRPresident, then no single soul deserves to be in any prison in Nigeria.
“If you know you know! #UGM,” Kanu tweeted on his handle.
Kanu’s tweet came as unidentified gunmen early Monday morning invaded Imo Prisons and the Police Command Headquarters, setting free prisoners and suspects.
The invaders set free over 2,000 prisoners and another 600 suspects held at the Police facilities in Owerri.
They also set the police operational vehicles parked at the state headquarters.
Meanwhile, IPOB has dissociated itself from the Monday attack, saying it is a peaceful organization.
“The attention of IPOB has been drawn again to the fallacious and fabricated news that IPOB and ESN are involved in the attack of prison and police,” its spokesman, Emma Powerful, said in a statement Monday.
“IPOB and ESN are known groups, not unknown gunmen. ESN is in the bush chasing Fulani terrorists, why linking IPOB and ESN to this attack. IPOB and ESN were not involved in the attack in Owerri Imo State. and the recent attack on Onitsha Owerri road at Ukwuorji junction. It is not our mandate to attack security personnel or prison facilities.
“The Nigeria Government and her compromised media outfits should stop linking IPOB and ESN to the multiple attacks going on in Nigeria now. IPOB was formed on principle of peace and we are still in it. Unknown gunmen is (sic) a different people which we don’t know them (sic) and they not IPOB or ESN security outfit,” he said.
