The Campaign for Democracy, CD, South East Zone, has joined the long list of other human rights bodies calling for the immediate release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
The
group also wants the Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh and the former National Security Adviser to
President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) released without
delay.
In a statement in Onitsha, Anambra State, CD also raised
concerns that Buhari had formed the habit of cracking down on Igbo
leaders at any slight provocation.
The
statement by its chairman in the zone, Dede A. Uzor, CD recalled that
Kanu was arrested on October 17, 2015 and a court of competent
jurisdiction granted him bail, yet Buhari refused to release him, just
as he also refused to obey the court order which granted Dasuki bail to
travel abroad for his medical check-up.
It regretted that up till
date, the duo were still languishing in the dungeons of the Department
of State Services, DSS, adding that Tuesday’s arrest of Metuh was viewed
as a clandestine move to silence opposition.
The statement,
therefore, gave Buhari a seven-day ultimatum within which to release the
above named individuals from detention or else CD would mobilize more
than 70 million Ndigbo, both home and in the Diaspora, to carry out a
mass protest against their continued detention.
“Buhari should
tell us how many All Progressives Congress, APC, members he has arrested
for corrupt practices or does it mean that APC members are all clean,
including the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who allegedly spent
over $16 billion on power sector reform without anything to show for
it?”
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