The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said efforts are ongoing to secure the release of the leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu.
The PUNCH reports that Kanu has been in detention at the Department of State Services since 2021 following his arrest in Kenya and repatriation to Nigeria.
The Supreme Court, on December 15, okayed his trial on the charges of terrorism filed against him by the Federal Government.
His trouble began in 2015 when the Federal Government arrested him and arraigned him alongside four others on 11 counts bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory matter, illegal possession of firearms and improper importation of goods, among others.
A few months after he was granted bail on health grounds, Kanu fled Nigeria in September 2017, after the military invaded his family’s home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State.
He was on the run until 2021 when he was arrested in Kenya and repatriated to Nigeria.
There have been calls, especially by the Ohanaeze Indigbo, for a political solution to the issue.
