According to the secessionist leader, the crisis persists because some government officials profit from it.
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, has revealed that insecurity persists in Southeast Nigeria because he is still being detained.
According to the secessionist leader, the crisis persists because some government officials profit from it.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja denied a fresh bail application filed by Kan.
Instead, the court opted for an accelerated hearing in the seven remaining counts which the Nigerian government preferred against him.
But speaking after the court proceedings, on Tuesday, Kanu who has been in detention at the Department of State Services (DSS) facility in Abuja since June 2021 following his extraordinary rendition from Kenya, said peace would be restored to the region when he is released from custody.
Kanu, who condemned the violence in the zone, said, “Anybody committing crime in the East cannot go free, I swear it.
“They are doing it because I am in the DSS (custody). If I were to be outside, nobody can try this.”
"I suspect that some people in government are complicit. They are making money with the insecurity. They know if Nnamdi Kanu is outside, in two minutes, this nonsense will stop,” he said.
According to Kanu, nobody dares speak when he is talking.
“I will give an order in the East who is the idiot that will counter it? Nobody can. I am Nnamdi Kanu.
“Anybody involved in any form of violence in the East in the name of IPOB is a goner, and they know it. Let me come out of this mess, only two minutes, there will be peace in the East,” he said.