Ejiofor in a statement said all the killings, kidnappings and other criminal activities going on in the Southeast would have been averted if the Nigerian government had released Kanu two years ago as ordered by the Court of Appeal.
Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has blamed the killings and criminalities in Southeast Nigeria on the continued detention of the IPOB leader.
Ejiofor in a statement said all the killings, kidnappings and other criminal activities going on in the Southeast would have been averted if the Nigerian government had released Kanu two years ago as ordered by the Court of Appeal.
He said, “It took only a handwritten note of about 50 words to end the criminality of a rogue in faraway Finland. This is proof that had Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu been released before now in line with the Appellate Court’s judgment, all the tragic and unfortunate deaths and needless destructions recorded over the past turbulent two years in Igbo land, would have been averted because his endeared people listen to him.
“If this level of peace can be achieved with a mere written note from solitary confinement in the SSS gulag, imagine what Onyendu’s physical presence will accomplish.”
Calling on the residents of the Southeast region to adhere to Kanu’s cancellation of Monday sit-at-home order in the region, Ejiofor said the Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, who has continued to order the enforcement of the sit-at-home goes to work every Monday in Finland and that his children go to school but he was preventing the people of the Southeast from enjoying the same right in their country.
“The criminal proponent of sit-at-home in Finland goes to work every Monday, if at all he is meaningfully engaged, and his child, that he had with a Finnish lady, goes to school every Monday.
"But children in Igbo land are prevented from going to school on Mondays and parents are prevented from going out to seek for their livelihoods to feed their families, particularly in this period of unimaginable economic hardship. What height of hypocrisy and wickedness!
“This goes to show that those behind the insecurity in the South-East and benefitting from same, are the same people obstructing the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” he said.