Association of Igbo Community in Abuja has renewed its call for a political solution to the case involving Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
DAILY POST reports that Kanu is currently being detained at the Sokoto Correctional Centre after he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The development appears to have led to renewed attacks on security formations in the South-East.
Igbo Community in Abuja is now urging for calm in Igbo land, just as it is preaching immediate political solution to Kanu’s case.
The association also charged security operatives to rise above the attacks by ensuring law and order in the South East by being proactive and alive to their responsibilities.
Rising from a meeting of the body, the President of Igbo Community in Abuja, Engr Ikenna-Ellis Ezenekwe and the Secretary General Chief Emmanuel Ona dismissed the Federal High Court judgement against Kanu, lamenting that it would continue to deepen insecurity in the area.
“At the moment we receive pockets of skirmishes in the South East geopolitical zone where we hear of attacks on security operatives and burning of vehicles and this is not good for Igbo land.
“The security operatives are urged to be alive to their responsibilities to save South East from these incidents and protect public and private properties,” the group stated.
It again proffered a political solution to the fate of Nnamdi Kanu, noting that in other countries, such political solutions were applied to ensure peace, security, law and order in those countries.
The body called for the unconditional release of Kanu for peace and security to reign in Igbo land.