Africa-Press – Nigeria. Right Reverend Ikechukwu Egbuonu, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Oji River in Enugu State, has made public his encounter with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the Sokoto Correctional Facility on Wednesday.
Nnamdi Kanu was sentenced to death by Justice James Omotosho last week after he was convicted of all seven charges brought against him by the Nigerian government.
Some 24 hours after the verdict, prison authorities transferred Kanu from the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, in Abuja to the Sokoto Correctional Facility.
His legal team has complained bitterly that this could severely hamper Kanu’s access to lawyers, family, and support networks.
Rev Egbuonu has now traveled to Sokoto all the way from Enugu State to see the IPOB leader and afterwards told AIT how he met the agitator in prison.
Asked about his first impressions of Nnamdi Kanu, including his physical and mental state when he arrived at the Correctional Center where he is being kept, the cleric said, “His personality is rare because, in the midst of that, he is living like a man who is living above his situation.
“Though he mentioned his heart condition, I don’t know how he has been taken care of in the prison, but I think he is not depressed as I thought, because we went to comfort and encourage him.
“So I think, if you ask me, he was even advising and encouraging us, telling me to tell the Igbo youth to calm down and that they shouldn’t take the law into their own hands, that they should all be in the right frame of mind, and that they shouldn’t go and start destroying things while the course of the law is taking effect.
“He believes that the judgment was full of injustice and that the Appeal Court will certainly correct it. He showed me some irregularities in the judgment in comparison to the sentences.
“Some of the things he was sentenced for were things that happened while he was in DSS custody. So he was asking me, how could I have done these things while in the custody of DSS? From him, I discovered that there are about three to four unknown gunmen in the East. One of them, according to him, was imported from outside to destabilize the South East.
“Number two are the ones he called economic unknown gunmen, those who are making money from the situation.
“The other one is a person in Finland, who he said he wrote a letter to by hand to let him know that he is not supporting what he is doing.”
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