Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s wife, Uchechi Okwu Kanu has suggested that her effort to free her husband from detention in Nigeria, is being sabotaged.
In a lengthy post the wife of the IPOB leader made on her social media account, she narrated how her struggle to secure the release of Mazi Nnamdi who was renditioned in Kenya in 2021, has not yielded the desired results.
According to her, an experienced British lawyer, barrister Jonathan Cooper who was lobbying the U.K government to intervene in Kanu’s continuous detention in Nigeria, “suddenly died”. She said the death of Jonathan Cooper impacted and delayed the sought for the U.K government intervention in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case in Nigeria
“In June 2021, when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was renditioned, we were working with a Human Right barrister called Jonathan Cooper (of blessed memory) who acted as our coordinator between the British government, the MPs and the Bidmans legal services.
“Suddenly, Jonathan died in 2021 autumn, and we were left with no experienced barrister to coordinate our legal responses and steps.The Bidmans took over and the rest is history. The information regarding this legal move is not hidden and can be found on the government’s legal platform”.
She thereafter disclosed that she has renewed her determination to get the British government led by Keir Starmer involved in demanding the release of Mazi Nnamdi who is also a UK citizen..
“Now, @Margaret Owen who was a colleague of Jonathan of blessed memory, is representing me in another step (based on the human and political perspective) to wake up the British government, and this time, as well as her people.
“The honeymoon period is over for the Keir Starmer’s government.
“Time for them to address the negative remarks about British government not standing up for their citizens, especially when it is about the abuse of their human rights”, she wrote