The Wife of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mrs Uchechi Okwu Kanu has expressed gratitude to the Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah for facilitating her visit to her husband, Nnamdi Kanu in the DSS custody.
Mrs Kanu had on April 16 visited her husband, Nnamdi Kanu at the Directorate of State Services (DSS) where he had been detained since 2021, after he was renditioned from Kenya.
According to report, Mrs Kanu had severally been denied access to her husband, until last month when she approached Senator Ubah, who swiftly fixed her visit.
During a live session on Radio Biafra on Sunday, Mrs Kanu who addressed some Igbo people living in UK and other parts of the world, thanked Ubah, stating that she knew many Igbo elite were genuinely concerned about the incarceration of her husband.
She noted that such concerned Igbo elite were working silently to help her husband regain his freedom.
She said: “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 office holders who are concerned about the plight of my husband.
“A lot of these elite 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.”
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah also confirmed to our correspondent that he facilitated the visit of Mrs Kanu to her husband when he learnt that she was finding it difficult to visit him in detention.
Ubah said,”Yes, she was in Nigeria and she approached me and told me that she needed to visit her husband, but was finding it difficult, so I immediately intervened. I visited her husband too with her in the company of Barr Ejiofor. She met with her husband in the DSS facility on April 16.”
Kanu has been in DSS custody since 2021.
