Kenya’s Director-General of Immigration Services, Alexander Muteshi, has denied Claims that Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in the country.
Gatekeepers News reports that Kenya’s Director-General of Immigration Services, Alexander Muteshi, has dismissed the claims of the country’s complicity in the arrest and“extradition of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to Nigeria.
Some reports have named the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, and Israel as countries where Kanu may have been in recent times, the IPOB leader’s family claimed that he was re-arrested in Kenya.
Kanu is facing an 11-count charge of treason, treasonable felony, terrorism and illegal possession of firearms, among others.
He jumped bail in 2017 and left the country.
He was re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday and ordered to be remanded in the custody of the DSS, while the case was adjourned till July 26 and July 27.
The Federal Government says security and intelligence agencies were on the trail of Kanu for over two years before he was re-arrested.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja, FCT.
He said Kanu was living “a five-star life across several countries.
Lai said Kanu’s re-arrest and repatriation was made possible through the collaboration of Nigerian security and intelligence agencies.
He described the re-arrest and repatriation as “one of the most classic operations of its type in the world’’.
He, however, did not comment on the speculations on how the re-arrest was pulled off and in which country the hitherto fugitive leader of the proscribed IPOB was nabbed.
Kenyan government officials in separate interviews with Reuters and Kenya’s Nation newspaper debunked the Kanu family’s claim.
“A spokeswoman for the Kenyan interior ministry said it was not aware of the matter, while the foreign affairs ministry in Nairobi did not respond to a request for comment,” Reuters said in its report.
Also, Muteshi while dismissing the family’s claim told Kenya’s Nation that it was not possible to tell whether Mr Kanu had entered Kenyan territory.
Mr Muteshi said when asked whether the claims made by the family were true. He Said, “I can’t know that,”.
