Mrs. Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Labour government of Keir Starmer in the UK to prevail on its Nigerian counterpart to release her husband.
Uchechi disclosed that Kanu’s absence is having adverse effects on their son’s life, causing him a lot of pain and anguish.
She noted that the UK has always been the forebear of human rights and has a reputation for fairness, justice and championing of human rights, urging Prime Minister Starmer to urgently intervene in her husband’s case and use his good offices to secure Kanu’s release from detention.
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.”
Uchechi said her 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.”
Kanu has been detained since June 2021 when he was rearrested in Kenya and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
