BY PRINCELY ONYENWE, IMO
The National Assembly has sat to profer possible solutions to grant release to Mazi NNAMDI KANU.
9News NIGERIA reports that a lot of calls are trooping in from various camps calling on FG to grant the IPOB leader Mazi NNAMDI KANU, an unconditional release from detention.
Ifeanyi CY NJOKU has also made lend his voice as tracked in a video posted online a few days before the South East summit.
In his words, “For the first time, Igbo politicians in the National Assembly have reasoned like people with their senses intact, as Senators and members of the House of Representatives from the five South Eastern states had set up a committee to interface with the federal government of Nigeria for the release of political prisoner and IPOB Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”
“You could recall that yesterday, in a live video broadcast, I, IfeanyiCy Njoku called on the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mohammadu Buhari to release his political prisoner, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.
“In that live video broadcast, I equally urged the South-East Governors, Senators, members of the House of Representatives, Traditional and Religious Leaders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other critical Stakeholders to reach out to Buhari led federal government and enter into dialogue for the release of IPOB Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“I also called on IPOB to immediately call off their Sit-At-Home Order which has negatively impacted on the Igbo economy and thereby destroying the essence of the IPOB struggle.
SOUTH-EAST CAUCUS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RESOLVES TO INTERVENE IN ISSUES AND DETENTION OF IPOB LEADER, MAZI NNAMDI KANU
Read NANS caucus press statement:
NNAMDI KANU: SOUTH EAST NASS CAUCUS TO INTERVENE
Sets up a committee to interface with FG, Stakeholders
Condemns destruction of lives and properties in SE
Charges police, others on security
The South-East Caucus of the National Assembly has resolved to intervene in the issue and detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
This was contained in a communiqué issued by the lawmakers after an extraordinary session, which held at the residence of the former Deputy President of the Senate and Leader of the Caucus, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
The communiqué, which was rendered by the Leader, South-East Caucus of the National Assembly, Senator Ekweremadu, reads in part: “The South-East Caucus of the National Assembly held an extraordinary session on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, to review developments in the South East, particularly the security situation in the region vis-à-vis the sit-at-home orders and the detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“The Caucus elaborately discussed the issue of Mazi Nnamdi and resolved to intervene. To this end we resolved to set up a committee to constructively interface with relevant stakeholders, the Federal Government and its relevant agencies towards finding a political solution”.
They, however, “noted with delight” the call-off of the weekly sit-at-home in the South East by IPOB.
“The Caucus reviewed the sit-at-home orders by the IPOB and the mayhem some nefarious elements have seized the opportunity to visit on the lives, properties, and psyche of our people. The Caucus equally reviewed and rued the incalculable economic losses and hardships these have brought upon our region.
“The Caucus noted with delight that IPOB has called off the Monday sit-at-home order and resolved to ensure that nobody uses them as façades to bring ruination on Igbo land.
“We call on our people to go about their lawful businesses and enjoin our governors and the security agencies to rebuild confidence in our people by not only ensuring the security of their lives and properties but also ensuring that our people feel safe as undertake their legitimate businesses”.
However, while expressing solidarity with the people of the region over what they described as injustices meted to them, the lawmakers urged them not to allow anyone to destroy what the Igbo built by their sweat.
“The Caucus expressed solidarity with our people of the South East over the marginalisation of the region in the scheme of things within the Nigerian commonwealth. The Caucus feels the pains of our people and their quest for equity, justice, and protection of their lives and property in every part of the country.
“We, however, appeal to our people not to allow anyone to destroy the South East region. The post-war South-East was not built through government patronage, but largely by the sheer determination and sacrifices of our people, who refused to resign to fate or bow their heads in defeat. It is in Igbo land that you easily find hospitals, schools, roads, and other social amenities built by individual or communal efforts of the people, home and abroad, through the instruments of the town unions and other community organisations such as the age-grades, Umuada, etc. The result is the comparative transformation witnessed in every nook and cranny of Igbo land post-civil war. Therefore, as a people, we cannot begin to undermine ourselves or become our own nemesis.
“Times like these call for introspection. We must also always bear in mind that our people thrive on the industry, commerce, and the informal sector. Importantly, most of our people depend on daily income. Therefore, while we must fight for our rights and legitimately express our displeasures over every form of mistreatment, injustice, and inequity, we certainly cannot afford to be the proverbial lizard that ruined his mother’s funeral. Anything that threatens Igbo businesses, the peace, security, and stability of the South East threaten our very existence as a people.
“Consequently, bearing in mind that if we allow cracks in the wall, lizards will invade our home, we must all pull together as one people to discourage and resist any tendencies and actions, within or without, which pollute our business environments or encourages anarchy and instability in our region”.
The Caucus equally condemned in strong terms the disruption of examination in Imo State, saying it was not in the character of the region and called on the security agencies to fish out the culprits.
“We resolved to condemn in strongest terms the disruption of the ongoing Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in some parts of the South East, particularly the incident at Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, where the English examination organised by the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, on Monday was ruthlessly scuttled by armed men, who chased away the students, teachers, and examiners before setting ablaze motorcycles belonging to the teachers. This is certainly not who we are as a people. We call on the security agencies to unravel the culprits behind these wicked acts and ensure that they are brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others.
Meanwhile, they assured that they would “join hands with other patriotic Nigerians across regional, religious, political, and ethnic divides to reconstruct a federal system where our rights, happiness, and prosperity and those of our unborn generations are guaranteed”.
“We are resolved to continue to fight for a level-playing ground and an enabling federal system where Ndigbo are able to develop their homeland at their own pace and equally pursue their happiness and actualize their enormous potentials in every part of the country, unmolested”, they added.
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