The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not being held by the Nigerian Federal government.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kany & The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
This is coming just many days after the Nigerian army clashed with IPOB in Umuahia, Abia state after it launched a military exercise tagged Operation Egwu Eke II or Operation Python Dance II in the south Eastern states of Nigeria.
Ever since the clash which many reports claimed the Nigerian army invaded the IPOB leader’s home and allegedly shot dead many of his supporters, the whereabouts of Kanu has been unknown.
The Nigerian armed force has however discredited the cases it attacked Kanu's home nor slaughtered anybody.In actuality, the armed force blamed IPOB individuals for assaulting its work force with "stones, molotov mixed drinks, cleavers and broken jugs, among others on a military watch on Sept. 10, 2017."Kanu is right now on safeguard pending the resumption of his trial in Abuja one month from now on charges of treasonable felony.
Nnamdi Kanu's supporters assert the military took away the IPOB pioneer after the guaranteed invasion.But in a meeting with AFP not long after the arrival to Nigeria from London by President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Mohammed said the IPOB pioneer could be sequestered from everything. Chatting on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's wellbeing condition, the Minister revealed that President Buhari is not in any commitment to unveil his wellbeing conditions to anyone regardless of the possibility that his hospital expenses are paid by the state.
According to him, "He's not being held by government by any means." He said Kanu had "crossed a line" with his unsettling for Biafra and that he (Mohammed) suspects the IPOB pioneer could be "in hiding."On the President, he stated, "I believe there's such a great amount of theory in the matter of what he's been dealt with for."I figure we would rather regard his security. On the off chance that Mr President craves telling the world his disease, so be it. I don't believe he's under a commitment to reveal to anyone."Recall that the South-East governors had banished the exercises of IPOB in the locale after the armed force's profession that IPOB is a fear monger organisation.
Further on the prohibition, the government of Nigeria had similarly and still demands that IPOB is a psychological oppressor association, keeping up that the gathering had printed its cash and was blackmailing cash from honest natives of Nigeria.It gave these explanations behind sponsorship IPOB's categorisation as a fear monger association, keeping up, notwithstanding, that not even the Fulani herders answered to have conflicted with and killed agriculturists, assaulted ladies and devastated cultivate grounds could be put on a similar level with IPOB which it said had cut out its very own domain inside Nigeria.In truth, the government had even said it had started procedures of blocking outside wellsprings of financing to IPOB.
Nigeria had similarly blamed both the administrations for France and the United Kingdom of being in help and subsidizing IPOB's exercises in Nigeria yet the two legislatures of France and UK denied the allegation.Recall likewise that scarcely 24 hours after the Nigerian armed force articulated IPOB a fear monger association, the President of the Nigerian eighth Senate, Dr. Saraki censured the categorisation of IPOB as a fear based oppressor association, saying it was unconstitutional.However, after Saraki's remarks, the Federal Government of Nigeria had instantly taken its mission for IPOB's prohibition to court where it got a court's request banishing IPOB.
The arrange the government acquired from a Federal High Court in Abuja, decided that IPOB is a psychological oppressor organisation.But IPOB had similarly moved toward the court, requesting it to subdue the request, saying the court arrange that said it was a fear based oppressor association was a bootleg market order.It contended that the said arrange disregarded its entitlement to flexibility of gathering, articulation and a privilege to request opportunity as cherished in the United Nation's sanction on Human Rights and in addition other national and worldwide rights bargains to which Nigeria is a signatory.Despite its contention, the Nigerian government keeps up IPOB is a psychological militant association, particularly with the marking of the gathering's ban by the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.
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