Popular Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, a.k.a. Okon Lagos, has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
He made the call in a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast, emphasising that the IPOB leader should be released in the interest of peace and national reconciliation, even if it doesnât make legal sense.
He claimed that pardoning Kanu would be morally right, arguing that the IPOB leaderâs agitation for Biafraâs 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 âcrimesâ he has committed.
It [freeing Kanu] doesnât need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,â Umoh claimed.
His guest, Nedu Wazobia, asked: âHow do you mean by it makes moral common sense?â
Umoh replied: âIt 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 Biafraâs secession.â
