IPOB shuts down business activities in Anambra, demand Kanu’s release

Commercial activities in Nnewi, Anambra State was on Monday shut down as over seven thousand members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, took to the streets in a solidarity protest, demanding the release of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, for over one month.

The protesting IPOB members mobilized from Onitsha, Asaba, Awka, Ekwulobia, Awka-Etiti, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi and Abia states, gathered at Nnewi from where they moved to the house of late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to ask for his blessing.

One of the commanders, of IPOB, Emeka Onwane, said the protest was a way of demanding for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, who he said, would appear in court today.