Insecurity: Ohanaeze Ndigbo to hold peace summit to discuss way forward

• Published date: 21 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said that it is planning to organise a peace summit to discuss ways of addressing insecurity in the country and the South East especially.

The council said this in a communiqué issued by its Chairman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, at the end of its meeting in Abuja yesterday.

At a different forum in Nsukka also yesterday, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Frank Nweke Jr, urged Biafra agitators to reconsider the effect of their Monday sit-at-home order on the Southeast.

Among the decisions taken by the Council of Elders yesterday was a call on the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) unconditionally.

'The council took a decision on the need to have a peace summit. It goes with the desire that Nnamdi Kanu should be released. We want to dialogue with his participation in...