About 50 members of the House of Representatives have written a letter to President Bola Tinubu, seeking the release of the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Ikenga Ugochinyere, the lawmaker representing Ideato Federal Constituency, stated in a message sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday that the lawmakers are seeking the release based on Section 174 of the 1999 Constitution, which gives the Attorney General of the Federation the power to discontinue cases based on “public interest, the interest of justice and the need to prevent abuse of legal process.”
Mr Kanu, who is leading a secessionist campaign for the creation of the Biafra Republic from Nigeria, is being tried at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his separatist campaigns. He recently told the court that he was seeking an out-of-court settlement with the government.
