BIAFRA: I am ready to negotiate with FG- Kanu

ABUJA —Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, on
Friday, said he was ready to negotiate with the Federal Government to regain his freedom
from Kuje Prison. Kanu who was hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra and Television, has
been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he was arrested by security operatives upon
his arrival to Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom.
He is answering to a six-count treason
charge alongside two other pro-Biafra
agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin
Madubugwu.
Trial Justice John Tsoho of the Federal
High Court in Abuja had on January 20,
ordered that the defendants should be
remanded in prison custody, pending the
determination of the case against them.
Meanwhile, briefing journalists in Abuja on
Friday, Kanu, through his lawyer, Mr.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, denied having any links
with the Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta, MEND.
The IPOB leader said he never gave
MEND the nod to negotiate with the federal government for his release from detention.
“In the past few days, the media was awash with news on negotiation going on between the
Federal Government and the members of MEND, where our client’s name (Nna-mdi Kanu)
conspi-cuously featured.
“It is on that note that we wish to inform the general public that Nnamdi Kanu has no
connection, contact, ties or any form of relationship with the members of MEND.
“As such, MEND has no implied, direct or express authority of Nnamdi Kanu to represent him
or IPOB in any purported negotiation, going on between MEND and the Federal Govern-ment.
“The general public is accordingly advised to ignore, discountenance and disregard the
falsehood being peddled by MEND. Nnamdi Kanu does not know them!
“However, Nnamdi Kanu is not averse to political solution, in resolving his present politically
orchestrated ordeal. Kanu welcomes genuine political solution to this case.
“The FG does not need to sponsor their repre-sentatives to travel to far away Bayelsa State
or the creeks of Niger Delta region, in order to reach Nnamdi Kanu. They know where they
kept him, which is easily accessible to them.