During a media chat to celebrate his third anniversary on Monday, Governor Soludo, who is among those who have been calling for Kanu’s release said: “The release of Nnamdi Kanu for me is different from the issue of security, I separate the two, I don’t link the two.
“Nnamdi Kanu for me is for us to have a conversation of a long-term future for the Igbos and that is a different conversation.
We have extended an olive branch to the criminals responsible for kidnapping: "Come out, we will train you, we will empower you, we will rehabilitate you, and if you don't we take you out.
" According to Soludo, the reason he continues to call for the IPOB leader to be freed is so that he can participate in a larger discussion about how the Igbo people's future should be decided. “A whole lot of this Simon Ekpa and some of this his band of criminals took over and turned the things into a killing spree, just killing people with reckless abandon,
” The governor recalled as he continued to advocate for Kanu's release. Simon Ekpa, who claimed to have taken over as IPOB leader upon Kanu’s arrest, was arrested in Finland where he resides in November last year by the Finnish police for what it termed “public exhortation to an offence, committed with terrorist intent.”
Governor Soludo said that he has no idea what Ekpa is pursuing other than to “swindle people for money.”
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