Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Worldwide have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigestion People of Biafra, IPOB and some other 19 Igbo youths detained illegally by security agencies.

The group made this request known in a statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Mazi Chika Adiele. It asked that the president rearranges his administration’s security architecture so as to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians and also bridge the gap between the leaders and the  led.

The group also called on South East governors to encourage Igbo youths to participate fully in the operational runnings of the local security outfit, known as Ebube Agu.

He regretted the “perennial failure of successive Nigerian leaders since the advent of democracy to arrest socio- economic drift, which unfortunately has placed the collective future of Nigerian youths on the slab.

“We are alarmed that since the advent of our nascent democracy, successive leaders have learnt no useful lessons from our malady.

“Though nation-building and nation branding policies are in principle available to all countries, we assert that the opportunities and potential benefits of such strategies strongly depend on countries’ historical, demographic, cultural, and socio-economic conditions. 

“Nigeria with colonial legacies and a profoundly heterogeneous society, and weak economic foundations, is pertinent to identify a home grown solution in halting this drift. 

“Nigeria is unfortunately at the precipice; citizens are now at the mercy of economic buccaneers whose sole purpose is to engineer clash and divert our attention from the realities of our time.”

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