Okon Lagos Urges FG to Release Nnamdi Kanu for Peace and Reconciliation

|By Oko-Echem Agnes

Popular Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, better known as Okon Lagos, has urged the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in the interest of peace and national unity.

Speaking on a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast, Umoh insisted that freeing Kanu would be the morally right decision, even if it lacks legal justification.

“I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Free him,” he declared. “It may not make legal sense depending on the evidence they have put forward about the crimes he allegedly committed. It doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense.”

The comic actor argued that Kanu’s agitation for Biafra stemmed from emotional decisions driven by the perceived marginalisation of the Igbo people.

“Of course, he is a human being and he took emotional decisions, and emotional decisions are not always right decisions,” Umoh explained. “He felt that his people were being marginalised, and that’s what led him into the Biafra struggle.”

His comments have reignited public debate on Kanu’s continued detention and the calls for reconciliation in Nigeria’s fragile unity.