Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu has urged the people of the Southeast to use dialogue and peaceful means to tackle the recent imprisonment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
The Minister stated this at the 14th edition of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Memorial Day Celebration held at Ojukwu Memorial Library, Owerri on Wednesday.
She said though the court of first instance had sentenced Kanu to imprisonment, all hope was not lost, saying with dialogue and peaceful means, Nnamdi Kanu could be released from the Sokoto Correctional Centre.
The Ojukwu annual memorial day was instituted by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the founder of Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASOB.
Mrs Ojukwu in her address called for a minute’s silence for the late BBC journalist, Mr Frederick Forsyth, whom she said resigned his job to cover all things that happened during the 1967 to 1970, Biafra and Nigeria civil war.
“Nnamdi Kanu is in prison, we should not get angry and it is not issue to use knives, gun or fighting ourselves in order to solve it.
“This coming Christmas, all of us should endeavour to meet with our National Assembly members and our governors, ask them the way forward to ensure that Kanu is freed from the prison.
“Also all of us should come together, plan ourselves on how to use peaceful means to settle this matter, we should plan how to meet with President Bola Tinubu and amicably resolve this matter,” she said.
