The household of the detained chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has exonerated human rights activist Omoyele Sowore from any involvement in the arrest and detention of Kanu’s youthful brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, and his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, throughout Monday’s #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in Abuja.
The household additionally denied claims that any medical panel from the Nigerian Medical Affiliation, NMA, visited Kanu for a medical take a look at as directed by Justice James Omotosho.
This was contained in a press release by Kanunta Kanu, who spoke on behalf of the household, condemning the arrests and demanding the rapid launch of Prince Emmanuel, Ejimakor and different protesters who had been detained throughout what he described as a peaceable demonstration.
Kanunta expressed shock that some people had been accusing Sowore of complicity in the arrests, describing such allegations as mischievously incorrect.
He accused sure political elites from the South-East of sponsoring false narratives in opposition to Sowore out of disgrace {that a} non-Igbo had the braveness to do what they might not.
“These pointing accusing fingers at Sowore ought to cease it. Saying that he bought out Barrister Aloy Ejimakor and Prince Emmanuel Kanu is inaccurate.
“He did what he was imagined to do by mobilizing Nigerians to protest in opposition to injustice. Some Nigerians and Igbo politicians are peddling this lie as a result of they’re ashamed that Sowore did what they didn’t do,” Kanunta stated.
The household additional accused the Federal Authorities of connivance in what it described because the continued persecution of Nnamdi Kanu and the Igbo nation.
