Popular Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, a.k.a. Okon Lagos, has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
He made the call in a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast, emphasising that the IPOB leader should be released in the interest of peace and national reconciliation, even if it doesn’t make legal sense.
He claimed that pardoning Kanu would be morally right, arguing that the IPOB leader’s agitation for Biafra’s secession was emotional and fuelled by the perceived marginalisation of the Igbos in Nigeria.
“I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Free him. It may not make legal sense depending on what they have claimed, that the evidences that have been put in the fore of the ‘crimes’ he has committed.
“It [freeing Kanu] doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,” Umoh claimed.
His guest, Nedu Wazobia, asked: “How do you mean by it makes moral common sense?”
Umoh replied: “It is morally right. Of course, he is a human being and he took emotional decisions, and emotional decisions are not right decisions. He felt that his people were being marginalised and he started agitating for Biafra’s secession.”
