Soyinka Describes Nnamdi Kanu’s Arrest As “Kídnap”

• There have been many speculations on where Nnamdi Kanu was arrested as the federal government has failed to provide this information
• Ifeanyi Ejiofor, his lawyer, had said he was arrested in Kenya, a claim the East African country has refuted.

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said the Nigerian government kidnapped Nnamdi Kanu from a foreign country in order to bring him to trial in Nigeria.

Soyinka, who condemned the Nigerian government’s action also criticised Kanu’s ‘hate rhetoric’ while he was in hiding outside the country.

“For me, was it right to have kidnapped [him]? You can say intercepted as much as you want but for me Kanu was kidnapped and that is wrong internationally and it is wrong morally,” he told the BBC in an interview.

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The Nobel Laureate said there could be a nationwide furore when the truth about the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu becomes public.

“It is not for me to tell the Nigerian government to prepare itself because there is going to be a huge squawk when the truth about how Kanu was arrested (becomes public),” he said.

Asked what advice he would give the government on how to handle Kanu’s case, Soyinka said, “We have to ask ourselves, what is the position politically, economically, mentally, spiritually? What is the collective state of mind of a vast section of this nation at the moment? And that state of mind is best described as distrust, total distrust.”

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