“In A Little While, My Husband Will Be Free” –  Nnamdi Kanu’s Wife, Uchechi

By Charles Igbo

Uchechi, wife of jailed leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has said that very soon, her husband will be released from jail. “In a little while, Nnamdi Kanu will be free”, she said in a social media post on Thursday.

Mrs Kanu, in a sort of recollection of the struggles she said she and her  husband have been passing through “for the emancipation of the Igbo”, wrote that their problems began in 2009 when her husband was abducted on their wedding day.

She recalled her husband’s arrest on December 19, 2009, the day of their Traditional Wedding, not by law enforcement agents, but by people loyal to Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB. She said Kanu was seized in front of their family square.

Accusing Uwazuruike of an outright betrayal of the IPOB  leader, she said the incident  is one she would never forget. It remains a painful memory, she wrote. During the abduction, she recalled, her husband was publicly assaulted and humiliated for no reason other than his opposition to Uwazuruike’s exploitation of the Igbo cause. Such exploitation, she revealed, included the production of “so called Biafran passports  vehicle number plates and proposals to issue currency for profit.”

She held back from divulging all, and took refuge in saying; “I will stop here for today. But understand this: there are battles in which the only weapon you possess is time. And in a little while, Nnamdi Kanu will be free.”

Kanu was renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya by the Nigerian Government in 2021 to continue his prosecution which was disrupted when, while on bail, soldiers of the Nigerian Military invaded his home in Afara, Abia State, and thus, forced him into “exile”.

Brought back to Nigeria in 2021,the Court ordered his detention at a facility of the Department of State Services, DSS. He attended his trial from there.

Finally, on November 20, 2025, a Federal High Court convicted him on a seven-count charge all bordering on terrorism. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Honourable Justice James Omotosho who handled the high profile case. Within hours of his sentencing, he was transported to the Sokoto Correctional Centre to serve his jail for life. The struggle to get a reprieve for him continues.