Popular Nollywood actor Ime Bishop Umoh, widely known as Okon Lagos, has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Speaking during a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast, the actor emphasized that Kanu’s release would serve the broader interests of peace and national reconciliation — even if it may not align with strict legal interpretations.
Bishop Umoh argued that granting Kanu a pardon would be the morally right step, suggesting that the IPOB leader’s push for Biafra’s secession was driven more by emotion and a sense of injustice stemming from the perceived marginalization of the Igbo people in Nigeria.
“I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Free him. It may not make legal sense depending on what they have claimed, that the evidences that have been put in the fore of the ‘crimes’ he has committed.
“It [freeing Kanu] doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,” Bishop Umoh claimed.
His guest, Nedu Wazobia, asked: “How do you mean by it makes moral common sense?”
Umoh replied: “It is morally right. Of course, he is a human being and he took emotional decisions, and emotional decisions are not right decisions. He felt that his people were being marginalized and he started agitating for Biafra’s secession.”
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