Simon Ekpa, a Biafra agitator based in Finland, responded to a statement made by Nnamdi Kanu, the principal, on Tuesday, after he was released from the Department of State Services (DSS) and promised to end the insecurity in the South-East.
Kanu was cited as saying after Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja denied him bail on Tuesday: “I suspect that some people in government are complicit. They are making money with this insecurity. They know if Nnamdi Kanu is outside, in two minutes, this nonsense will stop.”
Ekpa reacted quickly, threatening the Nigerian authorities with a video of Nnamdi Kanu in court on his official X handle.
He said: “Release my father, or you see the beast in me.”
Kanu, meanwhile, had declared that anybody perpetrating crimes under the IPOB name is a criminal and needs to be dealt with.
The IPOB leader added: “I have sacrificed my parents for this struggle. Why would I want to sacrifice any other person? Anybody committing crimes in the South- East is not part of this family.
“I suspect that some people in government are complicit. They are making money with this insecurity. They know that this nonsense will stop if Nnamdi Kanu is outside in two minutes.
“Anybody involved in any form of violence in the South East in the name of IPOB, let me come out of this nonsense, this mess, only two minutes, I guarantee you, and there will be peace in the South East.”
The leader of IPOB, who has been detained by the DSS since his extradition in June 2021 and is being prosecuted on accusations that may be considered treasonous, has already testified in court that he is receiving unjust treatment from the secret police and that there is a plot to have him killed while in their care.
To delay the resolution of the Federal Government’s preferred treasonable felony accusation against him, the Federal High Court denied his most recent application to be released on bail.
Judge Binta Nyako then mandated an expedited hearing for the seven-count accusation brought by the FG against him.
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