https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_WiG5up0VE

Outspoken Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka, has demanded the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Mr Mbaka stated this on Sunday during a service at the Adoration Ministry Ground, Enugu.

A video clip of the cleric speaking during the service has been circulating on Facebook and other social media platforms.

“Please, I ask in the name of God and that by the power of God, our leaders should quickly release Nnamdi Kanu,” he said.

IPOB, in August 2021, introduced a sit-at-home order every Monday across the South-east to put pressure on the Nigerian government to release Mr Kanu, who is standing trial in Abuja for alleged terrorism.

The separatist group later suspended the order, in preference for it (the order) to be implemented only the days Mr Kanu appears in court.

But despite its suspension, residents of the five South-east states – Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Anambra- have been observing the Monday sit-at-home order, mostly out of fear.

Some residents and motorists, including commuters, have been attacked by gunmen for stepping out of their homes on Monday and other days declared as sit-at-home.

Mr Mbaka bemoaned the suffering of the South-east residents over the sit-at-home.

He said the Nigerian government by not releasing Mr Kanu had “shown no concern” about the situation.

“Igbos have been suffering. Students wouldn’t go to school on Mondays, civil servants wouldn’t go to work. Every Monday would be a lockdown. Our leaders don’t care,” Mr Mbaka said.

IPOB is leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra, which it wants to be carved out from the South-east and some parts of the South-south.

Mr Kanu was first arrested in 2015 but was granted bail in April 2017. He fled the country after an invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State, by the Nigerian military in September of that year.

He was re-arrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in June 2021, about four years after he fled the country.

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, in October last year, held that the IPOB leader was extra-ordinarily extradited to Nigeria and that the action was a flagrant violation of the country’s extradition treaty and also a breach of his fundamental human rights.

The court, therefore, struck out the terrorism charges filed against Mr Kanu by the Nigerian government and ordered his release from the custody of the State Security Service.

But the government refused to release the IPOB leader, insisting that he (Kanu) could be unavailable in subsequent court proceedings if released, and that his release would cause insecurity in the South-east.

The government, through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, appealed the court ruling and obtained a Supreme Court order staying execution of the court judgement.

Mr Mbaka said the refusal by the government to release the IPOB leader after being acquitted by the court was an affront against the judiciary.

“There is a problem. The judiciary is dying. If the court can acquit somebody and somebody else will say no, then the country is gone. It’s a coup d’etat against the judiciary. And as a man of God, I stand up to say, release him (Kanu). Do the needful,” he said.

The Catholic priest said he was speaking out because “calamity could befall” the leaders behind Mr Kanu’s continued detention after his court acquittal.

He said those keeping quiet should speak out because they could be the next victim of the interference of the executive arm of the government against the judiciary.

He added that the IPOB leader should be released because his continued detention can cripple the country.

“Nnamdi Kanu’s case is like a trigger in the gun. You must be careful how you touch the trigger when the gun is loaded,” Mr Mbaka said.

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Mbaka should know that Kanu will be in detention at least till when Buhari exits office.

They should just release That man so that sanity can be restored to the south east. Sadly, our figurehead president doesn’t respect court orders

Moferere:
Mbaka should know that Kanu will be in detention at least till when Buhari exits office.

From the way things are going, that is exactly what will happen.

loosecanon50:
They should just release That man so that sanity can be restored to the south east. Sadly, our figurehead president doesn’t respect court orders

So it is because he's been in detention that's why Easterners are killing and eating themselves.

Yet you say they're intelligent people.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Make them release am again mak him people come out with another Theory that the FG is trying to sabotage dere candidate from winning the election....


People wey no know wetin dem want ...

Make he dey dere till after election so nobody go dey find any new thoery he go don learn him lesson from the great Zoo and from the hand Jubril El Sudan...

Corrinthians:
So it is because he's been in detention that's why Easterners are killing and eating themselves.

Yet you say they're intelligent people.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There is insecurity in most parts of Nigeria, that is why Nigeria is 6th most terrorised country on earth


But some online miscreants only remember that there is insecurity in Nigeria if it has to do with the South East

gidgiddy:


There is insecurity in most parts of Nigeria, that is why Nigeria is 6th most terrorised country on earth


But some online miscreants only remember that there is insecurity in Nigeria if it has to do with the South East

👀👀

They are intelligent people. That is why you are afraid of them getting their Nation. Now I ask... Can you walk confidently in peaceful "Ogun" without a skull protector??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Corrinthians:
So it is because he's been in detention that's why Easterners are killing and eating themselves.

Yet you say they're intelligent people.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's overdue Buhari is about to finish his tenure

Those mocking Nnamdi Kanu are actually mocking the federal government for not obeying its own laws and judicial pronouncements

Kikikiki...Seeking for relevance After OBIdients checkmated him

Mbaka the gay dog

Ruggedniggaone:
apc and fake promise are 5 and 6, I thought you made fake promise to people on nairaland that you will share 1m to 5 people here if lawan win at supreme Court

Joke of the century grin

Oga, that dicco idiot is a common petty poor yahoo yahoo and he does not have 5k in his account as we speak now.

NL is a funny site because 98.5% of all the people who visit and comment in this site can be classified among the poor and below poor in the society and 99% of them have no real time employment or business.

They are mostly frustrated individuals especially the mods, 99.8% of NL moderators are leaving in face me I face u single dirty rooms mostly in oshodi and ikotun area of lagos!

If u know u know

Is this a bait to come back into the good books and heart of the masses after effing up with Buhari against your people? Saying it was God's choice for Buhari to win, making doves fly n the other not fly ? Helped in chasing get out ?

Look at thr situation of Nigeria 8 years after, is this what you think God would prefer for Nigeria?

You were used n dumped
Simple.
Get used to the new life.
Being on the side of mazi nnamdi kanu would nit get you soft spot into the minds of people.

You tried this same pattern with Peter obi, you got it hot hot in split seconds from every corner. Yeah, that's how much u should know that nobody send you again.

Stop catching clout with nnamdi kanu. No be today dem arrest the man, no be today court free am. Stop it. Focus on your evangelical mission.

Many comedians. The easterner governors should have stood for him

A country of one day, one new comedy.

Well done Mbaka

He should go to Aso rock and order the release ..

He was among those who sold out GEJ for Buhari ...

Demand ?

Political rev Fada

When things fall apart
The center cannot hold.
When you fetch rotten firewood, you have invited the lizard.
Even if you are deaf, when there is chaos in the market, you won’t need anyone to tell you to run.
Because at the end of the day, it is someone that owns that wrapper that the goat is chewing.
The best whispers are between two brothers.
Let the kite be driven away first, then the mother hen would be allocated its own blame.
That is why the father celebrated the return of the prodigal son.
Ka Chineke mezia Oku

Ok

Amadioha strike him dead in the prison he is for all the innocent igbos lives he caused to die.

Mr Kanu also between 2018 and 2021 made a broadcast received and heard in Nigeria with intent to incite violence, in furtherance of an act of terrorism against Nigeria and its people, directed members of the public to burn down every federal facility in Lagos resulting in major economic loss to the federal government.

FOR ALL THE INNOCENT IGBOS that COWNU AND EKPA caused to kill, they will never ever end well in life.
For all the families they caused to cry for their loved ones, their cries will never depart from their household .
Brutal end awaits Cownu, Ekpa and all their brainwashed cannibals, terrorists and online bastards.
All the people in support of deaths of innocent igbos and other Nigerians will never witness the end of this year.
As long as God lives.

MIRACLE NWOBODO and other innocent igbos killed by cownu , Ekpa and their cannibalistic murderers.
May all your souls Rest in Perfect Peace.
Your blood will surely cry for you in due time.

If you want to be unfortunate and die brutally soon,
Quote this post to type rubbish.


We Rise.

Again,
May Devil punish nnamdi cownu and Simon ekpa wherever the idiots are.
Nor forgetting the bastards and online brainwashed swines and cannibals supporting their brutal killings of innocent igbos.
Y'all will never progress in life for all the pains and anguish you brought upon the eastern part of the country.
Brutal and Terrible ends await Y'all, as long as God lives.
Animals everywhere.

Continue to Rest in Perfect Peace Miracle Nwobodo our relative killed by this animal and his brainwashed swines.


For all the innocent Nigerians they have caused to die, evil will never depart from their household,
Including anyone supporting those animals.

No be curse,
Na FACT!

Brainwashed Animals supporting animals.
THEY WILL all die like dogs in the gutter.
No be Curse,
Na FACT, as long as God lives.
We Rise.
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RIP to our relative , Miracle Nwobodo that these animals killed in her prime.

Gandrova:
Her killer will never have peace of mind. Simon Ekpa days are numbered. Just like Shekau of Boko Haram.

AMEN.
Thank you.

Make e go free am now