Comedian and actor, Imeh Bishop Umoh has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Umoh popularly known as Okon Lagos made the call while speaking in a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast.
He said Kanu should be released in the interest of peace and national reconciliation.
However noting that his release might not amount to any form of legal sense or objective, Umoh said some of the actions taken by the IPOB leader were based on emotions.
He said Kanu only voice the perceived marginalisation of the people of the South East region in the way he best knows and understands.
He added, “I am one million per cent 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 evidence that has 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 said.
Queried on his opinion on Kanu’s release, Umoh stated, “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,” the actor said.