Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has appealed to the United Kingdom (UK) government to intervene in his continued detention by the Nigerian government.
Nnamdi Kanu has been detained since June 2021, when he was rearrested in Kenya and subjected to extraordinary rendition during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement on Thursday, Uchechi recalled a recent encounter with her son, stressing that Kanu’s absence is affecting their son’s life and causing him pain.
According to Kanu’s wife, the UK has always been the forebear of human rights and has a reputation for fairness, justice, and championing human rights.
Uchechi urged the UK government to urgently intervene in her husband’s case and accelerate his release from detention by the Nigerian government.
She wrote, “Over the weekend, after football games and other activities, our little one’s homework caught my attention.
“He was asked to extend a bit on a poem about the uniqueness of one’s self.”
“My son’s last paragraph read, no matter how much people think they know about our pain, nobody can feel the way I feel about the absence of my daddy in my life. Nor the exact pain it is causing us.
“The UK is the forebears of Human Rights. The UK has always had a reputation for fairness, justice and for being a champion of human rights.
“They played an important role in producing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.
“Sadly, the recent governments have actively undermined this key legacy of their forebears.
“Help me push for the release of my husband, Nnamdi Kanu and other British citizens like him, who are in arbitrary detention and held hostage against their human rights.”