The pan-Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has again called on President Bola Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu, as reported by PUNCH.
Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and he has been in detention for almost four years.
The call followed a recent ruling by the High Court of Kenya.
The court declared Kanu’s arrest and transfer from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021 as illegal and against the law.
Kanu was arrested in Kenya on June 27, 2021, and brought to Nigeria shortly after.
He was formally detained on June 29, 2021, he was charged with terrorism, treason, and inciting violence.
Since then, he has remained in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja.
Despite several court rulings and appeals, Kanu has not been released.
The Kenyan court, on June 24, 2025, said the way Kanu was arrested, hidden, tortured, and moved to Nigeria violated his rights.
Ohanaeze said the continued detention of Kanu without justice questions the fairness and integrity of Nigeria’s judiciary.
The group believes that the case shows a failure to respect the rule of law and human rights.
The group also said the world is watching how Nigeria handles the matter.
They asked President Tinubu to use his power to find a peaceful and diplomatic solution.
Benjamin Obidegwu, President of Igboekulie, a group promoting Igbo culture, also called for a political solution.
He said Kanu’s case is not just legal, but political, and should be treated that way.
“Since the judiciary is a principal arm of the government, Kanu’s custody by extension, therefore, gives rise to prototypical interrogation of the Nigerian government’s adherence to the tenets of rule of law, compliance with the prevalence of fundamental human rights, conformity to normative regulations and subscription to body of statutes, irrespective of social stratum, religion, ethnicity and other avoidable mundane prejudices and institutional biases,” he said.
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