“Free Nnamdi Kanu, Even If It Doesn’t Make Legal Sense” – Actor Ime Bishop Umoh Tells Tinubu Govt

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. Speaking on a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast, Umoh argued that Kanu’s freedom is necessary for peace and reconciliation in the country, stressing that it should be granted even if it does not align with legal considerations.

The actor said pardoning Kanu would be morally justifiable, noting that his push for Biafra’s secession was driven by emotions and the feeling of marginalisation among the Igbo people. “I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Free him. It may not make legal sense depending on what they have claimed, that the evidences that have been put in the fore of the ‘crimes’ he has committed. It doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,” Umoh stated.

When asked by his host, media personality Nedu Wazobia, to clarify his position, Umoh explained that his call was based on human and moral grounds. “It is morally right. Of course, he is a human being and he took emotional decisions, and emotional decisions are not right decisions. He felt that his people were being marginalised and he started agitating for Biafra’s secession,” he said.