The United Igbo Elders Council (UNIEC) has urged the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader, and other political detainees without any conditions.
They have also requested the government to stop illegal arrests, detentions, and unjust killings nationwide, and to lift economic restrictions on Eastern Nigeria.In a statement issued on Saturday by Prof. Obasi Igwe, the Director of Media and Publicity, and Alpha Justice, the Coordinator-General of UNIEC, the group outlined their requests.
They highlighted the importance of peace and stability achieved through restructuring, regionalism, and a referendum, urging the government to implement these steps as a basis for significant progress in Nigeria.
The elders also underlined the significance of reopening Eastern ports to boost economic advancement and growth in the region and other areas.
It read: “It is an indisputable fact that by mid-2015, there was not a single insurgency or war to overthrow the Federal Government or procure a Biafra anywhere in Igbo society and none today, except the one manufactured by a tyrant that made sure that such a war existed, with shoot-to-kill or shoot-at-sight orders openly issued against promising innocent youngsters in full view of all the world, in part to punish the Igbo for their sundry sins.
“We, therefore, demand for the unconditional release of all political prisoners, including the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and his colleagues, with an immediate end to all manner of unlawful, hooded, night and secret arrests, detentions and extrajudicial killings.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been tortured, victimized and dehumanized beyond measure and it confers to a nation no value to continue to keep an innocent citizen in jail.
“Opening up the Igbo/Eastern Ports system equally spills over and triggers development across the Eastern Middle Belt and beyond, while the continual lockdown of the Igbo/Eastern Ports is also having cumulative negative tolls on the entire Eastern half of the country down to Maiduguri.
“Nigeria demands restructuring based on single nationality regions side by side with multi-ethnic nationality regions, and the number in each category to be determined by competitive regional consideration.
“No economic policy or blueprint, however brilliantly formulated, can work beyond a marginal neocolonial glass ceiling without a correct political economy or foundation, otherwise a basis on which the superstructure stands.”
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