Video: Kanu’s re-arrest: “This is what FG should do for Igbos now or more Kanus will emerge” – Sen. Victor Umeh

Since the recent re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB), a pro-Biafran separatist group, many Nigerian elites has been airing their view on the issue as well as advising on the way forward.

In the light of that, BBC News Igbo, the Igbo language arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, went to interview Sen. Victor Umeh, former senator of Anambra central senatorial district and former National President of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) party. The foremost senator said a lot about the matter and advised the federal government to handle Kanu’s case with wisdom as it’s a very sensitive one.

He further stated that if equality, equity and fair treatment for all is not effected in the federal government way of running Nigeria, then there will rarely be peace in Nigeria even if Kanu is to be incarcerated.

His words, “Kanu’s agitations are gathering interest in the South-East because what he is saying is obvious to the people. He might be going about it wrongly by insulting people and by involving in a violent struggle, but why it seems like he is gaining support is because the people can see the inequality in the treatment meted out against Ndi-Igbo”

“If the federal government has been treating the Igbos with fairness and give to them what they give to other zones, if Kanu talks against Nigeria and the government, nobody would have listened to him”.

He went further to advise that the federal government should not quash what Kanu is agitating for simply because they have gotten Kanu himself. “You do not throw away the baby with the bathwater” he had said in Igbo.