Igbo Youths endorse October 20 protest for Nnamdi Kanu’s release

By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka

Igbo-speaking youths crossed Nigeria person endorsed the planned October 20, 2025, peaceful protestation aimed astatine demanding the unconditional merchandise of the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

In a communiqué issued aft an exigency gathering successful Awka connected Wednesday, the youths — nether the umbrella of the Igbo Youth Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly — urged different taste groups and advocates of justness to enactment the telephone for Kanu’s release.

The gathering drew participants from the younker helping of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the younker helping of the Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU), and the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN).

The radical appealed to Igbo youths some astatine location and successful the diaspora to behaviour themselves peacefully during the protestation and debar immoderate signifier of unit oregon confrontation.

“We impulse our radical to support due behaviour passim the objection truthful that nary 1 becomes a unfortunate of unforeseen circumstances,” the communiqué stated.

“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu himself would not privation immoderate guiltless humor to beryllium shed connected his behalf.”

According to the communiqué, the youths expressed interest that contempt caller affirmative steps specified arsenic the instauration of the South East Development Commission, the portion inactive experiences what they described arsenic societal and economical exclusion.

“With the constitution of the South East Development Commission, we had thought the civilian warfare epoch was yet down us. But caller realities suggest that challenges of marginalization and exclusion persist,” the radical said.

They urged the Federal Government to see granting amnesty to agitators and to merchandise Nnamdi Kanu arsenic portion of a broader reconciliation effort.

“The Federal Government has not secured a condemnation against him since his detention. We truthful advocator his merchandise arsenic a governmental solution to the prevailing information and socio-political issues successful the South East,” the communiqué added.

The youths commended the enactment of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, South East governors, and different stakeholders for their ongoing appeals for Kanu’s merchandise but urged them to intensify their efforts.

“We admit the efforts of our leaders, some past and present, successful promoting bid successful the South East. However, we telephone connected them to bash much by engaging the Federal Government to instrumentality decisive action,” they said.

The radical welcomed the solidarity of those convening the October 20 protest, describing it arsenic a “national enactment against injustice.”

They reiterated their committedness to peace, justice, and unity based connected fairness and equality.

“We privation peace, but not the bid of the graveyard. We privation unity, but not the unity of a enslaved and a master. We request justice, due to the fact that a radical denied justness cannot genuinely cognize peace,” the communiqué concluded.

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