Popular Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, also known as Okon Lagos, has appealed to the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Speaking during an appearance on The Clarity Zone podcast, the thespian asserted that Kanu should be set free in the interest of peace and national reconciliation, even if it doesn’t make legal sense.
He insisted that pardoning Kanu would be morally right, arguing that the IPOB leader’s agitation for Biafra’s secession was emotional and fuelled by the perceived marginalisation of the Igbos in Nigeria.
“I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Free him. It may not make legal sense depending on what they have claimed, that the evidences that have been put in the fore of the ‘crimes’ he has committed.
“It [freeing Kanu] doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,” Umoh claimed.
His guest, Nedu Wazobia, asked,“How do you mean by it makes moral common sense?”
Umoh replied, “It is morally right. Of course, he is a human being and he took emotional decisions, and emotional decisions are not right decisions. He felt that his people were being marginalised and he started agitating for Biafra’s secession.”
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