From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has threatened to revolutionise its struggle if urgent steps are not taken to allow its leader, Nnamdi Kanu have access to his physician to attend to his ill health.
Spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful who disclosed this in a statement also threatened that IPOB would abandon its peaceful approach to its struggle and resort to another means. The statement reads in part “The IPOB leadership received very disturbing report from our legal team about the deteriorating health of the great leader and Prophet Mazi Nnamdi Kanu inside DSS solitary confinement.
“DSS has refused Mazi Nnamdi Kanu access to his personal and professional physician for over a year now in contravention to court orders.
“The Nigerian government and the DSS is hereby notified that they are playing with an active volcano whose eruption will leave a trail of complete destruction should they continue on this ignoble part and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s is in any manner impacted negatively.
“The Nigerian government and its agency of torture called the DSS should very well know that the issue of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s health while in their custody is a red line they must not cross. This peaceful approach will never remain the same if anything untoward happens to him.
“We are telling you now so that the international community will bear us witness that we warned Nigeria before it and the DSS commit an irreparable blunder. We want Nigeria to understand that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra is worth more than one million men and this a tip of what we shall sacrifice if anything untoward happens to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in your custody.”
Meanwhile, IPOB has urged the international bodies, including the International human rights group to intervene on the matter and have Kanu released unconditionally before it carries out its threat.