Proper Reverend Ikechukwu Egbuonu, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Oji River in Enugu State, has made public his encounter with the chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on the Sokoto Correctional Facility on Wednesday.
Nnamdi Kanu was sentenced to loss of life by Justice James Omotosho final week after he was convicted of all seven prices introduced towards him by the Nigerian authorities.
Some 24 hours after the decision, jail authorities transferred Kanu from the custody of the Division of State Companies, DSS, in Abuja to the Sokoto Correctional Facility.
His authorized workforce has complained bitterly that this might severely hamper Kanu’s entry to attorneys, household, and assist networks.
Rev Egbuonu has now traveled to Sokoto all the best way from Enugu State to see the IPOB chief and afterwards instructed AIT how he met the agitator in jail.
Requested about his first impressions of Nnamdi Kanu, together with his bodily and psychological state when he arrived on the Correctional Middle the place he’s being stored, the cleric stated, “His character is uncommon as a result of, in the midst of that, he’s residing like a person who resides above his state of affairs.
“Although he talked about his coronary heart situation, I don’t know the way he has been taken care of in the jail, however I believe he’s not depressed as I assumed, as a result of we went to consolation and encourage him.
“So I believe, if you happen to ask me, he was even advising and inspiring us, telling me to inform the Igbo youth to settle down and that they shouldn’t take the regulation into their very own palms, that they need to all be in the proper way of thinking, and that they shouldn’t go and begin destroying issues whereas the course of the regulation is taking impact.
“He believes that the judgment was stuffed with injustice and that the Enchantment Courtroom will definitely right it. He confirmed me some irregularities in the judgment in comparability to the sentences.
“A few of the issues he was sentenced for had been issues that occurred whereas he was in DSS custody. So he was asking me, how may I’ve carried out these items whereas in the custody of DSS? From him, I found that there are about three to 4 unknown gunmen in the East. Certainly one of them, in keeping with him, was imported from outdoors to destabilize the South East.
“Quantity two are those he referred to as financial unknown gunmen, those that are earning profits from the state of affairs.
“The opposite one is an individual in Finland, who he stated he wrote a letter to by hand to let him know that he’s not supporting what he’s doing.”
