{"id":61077,"date":"2022-03-12T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nnamdi-kanus-detention-while-boko-haram-gets-vip-treatment-is-provocative-afenifere-ohanaeze-others"},"modified":"2022-03-12T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:27:37","slug":"nnamdi-kanus-detention-while-boko-haram-gets-vip-treatment-is-provocative-afenifere-ohanaeze-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanus-detention-while-boko-haram-gets-vip-treatment-is-provocative-afenifere-ohanaeze-others","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s detention while Boko Haram gets VIP treatment is provocative \u2013 Afenifere, Ohanaeze, others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders\u2019 Forum, SMBLF, have called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, pro-Biafra agitator.<\/p>\n

SMBLF said the Federal government was openly displaying double standards by Kanu\u2019s continued detention.<\/p>\n

The group noted that Kanu\u2019s continuous detention and trial was provocative, while Boko Haram terrorists get VIP treatment.<\/p>\n

SMBLF made the call in a communiqu\u00e9 jointly signed by the leaders of Yoruba\u2019s Afenifere, Igbo\u2019s Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Middle Belt Forum, and the Pan Niger Delta Forum, after a meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The communique reads partly: \u201cThe continued detention and trial of Nnamdi Kanu on charges of terrorism and treasonable felony while known Boko Haram terrorists are being given VIP treatments and hosted in Government Houses is not only provocative and perfidious but a bizarre double standard on the part of the Nigerian State.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand, in national interest, the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu and a stop to any further persecution of Sunday Igboho, who is currently on a conditional release in Benin Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kanu has been locked up by the Department of State Services, DSS, since June 2021.<\/p>\n

He is facing charges bordering on terrorism before Justice Binta Nyako-led Federal High Court in Abuja.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders\u2019 Forum, SMBLF, have called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, pro-Biafra agitator. SMBLF said the Federal government was openly displaying double standards by Kanu\u2019s continued detention. The group noted that Kanu\u2019s continuous detention and trial was provocative, while Boko Haram terrorists get VIP treatment. 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