Kuje attack: IPOB demands Kanu’s transfer to South-East prison, members’ release
by Ebor Cletus Ralph Jr
In response to the terrorist incident that took place at the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja on Tuesday, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have asked that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, be transferred to a jail in the South-East.
In a Tuesday night attack, members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) freed approximately 800 prisoners, including 64 terrorists who had been incarcerated there.
The incident resulted in the deaths of four people, including a member of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) staff.
Among the well-known detainees of the prison were Kanu and Abba Kyari, the temporarily suspended commander of the police intelligence reaction unit.
The organisation raised concern for the safety of its members being held at the institution in a statement released on Thursday by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful.
The statement read: “We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, under our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, wish to let the world know that IPOB members were profiled and detained in Kuje Prison yards for simply being indigenous to Biafra and of Igbo race.
“We have the members’ details and want them alive because if anything untoward happens to our comrades, who are detained in Kuje, IPOB will never take it easy.
“It is high time these innocent folks are released. Nigeria cannot continue to detain them indefinitely while allowing terrorists and bandits to come and slaughter them under disguised arrangements.”
