IPOB: Awka-based Bishop predicts Nnamdi Kanu will be released in May
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be released next month, the Archbishop Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger and Bishop, Diocese of Awka, Anambra State, Most Revd. Alexander Ibezim has predicted .
Kanu is currently standing trial on 15 count charges , now reduced to eight by court. Recall that on June 27, 2021, Kanu was arrested in Kenya or possibly another location by Interpol and extradited to Nigeria where he is supposed to face trial.
Kanu’s brother claimed that he had been arrested by the Kenyan police. Kenyan High Commissioner Wilfred Machage refuted this claim, stating that Kenyan authorities had not been involved in the arrest and challenged anyone to present evidence proving otherwise. When the BBC attempted to request information from Interpol’s office in Abuja, the latter did to not answer the calls
The Archbishop said that God would touch the leadership of the country to release Nnamdi Kanu , the IPOB leader to end the growing calamity in the South-East.
Ibezim spoke at the 2022 Awka Diocesan annual prayer convention with the theme: “This mountain shall be removed.” at the premises of Paul University, Awka.
“God has already given us a breakthrough. We are going to celebrate a breakthrough. We shall witness fantastic testimony and we are making a declaration that wherever Nnamdi Kanu is, he will be released by this time next month.
“God will touch the leadership of Nigeria so that this calamity that is taking place in the east will end. By this time next month or anytime in the month of May, he will be released and there will be peace in eastern Nigeria and Anambra State.
“I’m not a politician but a prophet and when a prophet speaks, things happen. It is time that injustice cease to exist in Nigeria. Injustice, killings and calamities will cease in southeast and Nigeria , Ibezim declared.
“There are people that are pursuing what they are pursuing in order to gain attraction. As a prophet, I don’t need anybody to bribe me or influence me but I believe that my people will be set free and there won’t be war or destruction in this land.”
He added,: “We need humility because nobody is safe when the poor are not safe. The rich in our midst must do everything to ensure the safety of the poor. Otherwise, they won’t be safe to enjoy their riches. So both the rich a poor should cry unto God.”
