Biafra: Kanu’s wife accuses UK of not helping her husband

The wife of detained Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, has slammed the British government for abandoning him.

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu told the American magazine, Newsweek, that London is “evading responsibility” for ensuring her husband’s human rights are not violated.

Kanu is currently facing trial for treasonable felony, criminal conspiracy and belonging to unlawful society.


He could be jailed for life if found guilty of treasonable felony.

“It is for the British government to get involved, to make sure that this person’s human rights are being respected and they haven’t done that. They’ve been to see my husband but that is not where it ends,” Uchechi said in London.

stress of her husband’s detention in Nigeria almost made her have a miscarriage.

She said: “His human rights have been violated and international human rights bodies should be all over the place because he is also human. From my perspective, they [the British government] are evading some responsibility. They should be doing more, they should visit him more… It’s obvious and apparent that the Nigerian government and the DSS is not obeying the law.”

Mrs. Okwu-Kanu said the stress that was triggered by her husband’s detention caused her  to go into early contractions in November 2015.

“I managed to get an ambulance and got the whole thing under control. I was kept under care, watched for two or three days before I left the hospital,” she said.