Kanu's Wife Speaks On Her Husband Detention

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, the wife of the
embattled Radio Biafra director, in the
interview granted to the IBTimes UK speaks
about the detention of her husband.

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, the wife of the
controversial director of Radio Biafra.
The woman expressed concern over the
continued custody of the Biafra leader.
She said: “Nnamdi is just a prisoner of
conscience. He has been held nearly for two
months already. He’s been held extra-judicially.
And that is not right.”
Mrs. Okwu-Kanu added that he is afraid of
her husband’s well-being and supposed he
was being tortured by the Nigerian state
security service.

“He was obviously dying. And there was no
medical attention or anything like this, ” Kanu’s
wife added.
The woman said that she had been able to
speak with her husband only once since he
was arraigned by the DSS as he travelled to
Nigeria from London in the beginning of
October.
She cautioned that Kanu’s health is
worsening as he is no longer able to take
medicine for “his life-threatening ulcer”.
Okwu-Kanu defended her husband’s struggle
for independence and argued pro-Biafrans
have the right to self-determination.
“The man I saw was not my husband anymore.
He gradually becoming a ghost. So I can feel
his pain. If you know somebody, when you look
at him you see his pain,” she said.
Kanu’s wife also advised the Nigerian
authorities to release her husband and
engage in dialogue rather than arresting
people “who agitate for freedom”.

“Kanu must be released because he hasn’t done
anything wrong. This is a very very serious
case.”
In the last part of the interview Okwu-Kanu
stated that she needed her husband and
mentioned about her eight-old pregnancy,
noting that it’s not public thing.
However, these claims could not be
independently confirmed at the time of
publishing this report.
Radio Biafra director was due to appear in
court on December 1 but his lawyer Vincent
Obetta said the hearing had been delayed as
the judge’s father had died and could not
attend.
Kanu’s sister, Princess Chinwe Kanu, also
expressed concern over what they defined as
Kanu’s “deteriorating health” after seeing him
in court on 23 November.
His detention caused protest trough Nigeria
mainly in southeast.