Jailed Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu received a high profile visitor for the second time since he began serving his life time sentence at the Sokoto Prison.
The respected Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Dioces, His Lordship, Dr Matthew Kuka, visited Kanu on Thursday.
The first high profile visitor Kanu received was his State Governor, Dr Alex Otti of Abia State.
Bishop Kukah’s visit to Kanu was made public by his (Kanu’s) younger brother Prince Emmanuel Kanu.
He disclosed in a post on his official Facebook page that the meeting between was lively and filled
with “laughter and extreme joy”. He also disclosed that the Bishop offered prayers for the IPOB leader.
He said: “Their conversations were mostly filled with laughter and extreme joy. He prayed alongside his team of faithfuls”.
Kanu, controversially brought back to Nigeria from Kenya by the Federal Government was, on November 20, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja which had the Honourable Justice James Omotosho in charge. He was found guilty of all the seven-count charges against him which bordered on terrorism.
Kanu was, thereafter, transported to Sokoto Prisonss from the custody of the Department of State Services where he had been since 2021.
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