By Gideon Njoku
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has brightened the life of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, detained Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.
Kanu has been in the custody of the Federal Government since he was renditioned in 2021, from Nairobi Kenya to Abuja, Nigeria. He is being prosecuted by the Federal Government for alleged offences ranging from terrorism to treason, allegations he strongly denies. Not a few people have appealed and pleaded for a political solution to the Kanu issue, but the appeals all came to nought. And, even though a couple of Courts had ruled in Kanu’s favour and asked that he be released from detention, that too has come to nought.
Since Kanu’s detention, his wife, Uchechi, who lives in the United Kingdom, has neither visited nor seen him. All efforts she made, according to her, to visit her husband in custody were, always, turned down.
But this other day, she disclosed, she was allowed to visit him in the facility of the Department of State Security Services where the FG kept him, thanks to Ubah who represents Anambra South in the Senate.
It was a relieved and grateful Mrs Uchechi Kanu who disclosed the role played by Senator Ubah which enabled her to visit her husband for the first time in years. She was full of Commendation for the Senator.
She disclosed her visit to her husband in an address to IPOB members in the United Kingdom.
Her words: “Let me use this opportunity to thank Senator Ifeanyi Ubah who moved swiftly to facilitate my visit to my husband in DSS custody. I thank you Sir.
“I thank other Igbo Politicians, Governors, and political officers holders who are concerned about the plight of my husband.
“A lot of these elites are concerned about the unlawful detention of my husband and are working silently to secure a round table discussion for his release. I’m thankful to them,”
Ironically, when the IPOB Leader was renditioned to Nigeria from Nairobi, false and unfounded allegations were made to the effect that it was Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s private jet that was used to fly him (Kanu) to Nigeria.
