11/12/2025
I am not one who usually takes to social media to announce every single meeting or calls I get on, but some truths must be recorded for history.
Not for the foolish, but for powerful governments such as the The White House and Russian Foreign Ministry - МИД России and Human Rights institutions such as Amnesty International United Nations Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council European Court of Human Rights which Margaret Owen always references, and Commission on Human and Peoples' Right.
Earlier today, in my meeting with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, I reached breaking point. I had to calm myself after going ballistic, because there comes a time when restraint feels like a lump you can't swallow. It is human to burst when you know you are being played.
I am angry - angry because this crisis could have been averted!
I am angry because when it unfolded, those entrusted by right of birth and or, by association chose instead to defend their pockets and scramble for positions they barely understand!
I am angry because those targeted do not even realize it is about them, as much as it is about their brother whom they hate and wrestle against!
I am angry because UK Prime Minister has chosen trade over human life - abandoning , a British citizen who was kidnapped in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria, unjustly tried under a repealed law with his human rights taken away!
UK agrees that rendition is an international crime but cannot call Nigeria out publicly.
Why?
What is it about the Igbos that keeps you all awake at night?!
A few weeks ago, Margaret, Jim of Hostage International, and I sat with the Minister for Africa - Baroness Chapman. She was the first person to have ever shown me empathy since I have been chasing the UK government!
Yet even then, the refrain remains the same: “no interference in issues concerning Nigeria.”
I told them today that, that response is not neutral. It is a choice!
A choice to look away while injustice is carried out. A choice to prioritize political convenience and economic interests over the dignity and survival of human beings.
As Nnamdi Kanu’s family, we feel the weight of this abandonment every single day. We are not abstractions.
We are human beings watching our loved one subjected to injustice while the UK government hides behind diplomatic jargon. The refusal to act is complicity!
History will remember that when confronted with the suffering of and his family, the UK government chose silence and trade deals over humanity. And history will also remember those of us who waited patiently for those who understand justice to speak against injustice, who refused to be silent, who insisted that justice and human life must never be negotiable.
One truth I have made clear to the FCDO is this: we are treated this way because we are Igbos! Had been a Muslim, he would have long been released! That is the bitter reality!
If not for the way God created me with resilience beyond measure, I would have been dead or left psychologically irredeemable.
I have not recovered from the death of my mother, the physical pillar who held me together. I have not truly mourned her. The little mourning I managed, I mourned alone. And within just three months of struggling to regain sight of reality, was kidnapped.
Since then, it has been wave after wave of troubles and sickness. I have battled numerous fibroids brought on by stress and acute grief. In 2023, I underwent a minor surgery, but things worsened, forcing me into a major operation as I approached a near-death stage. All of these, I gone through "alone"!
Yet through all of these, I have fought and pushed forward, holding on for the sake of this little boy, Nnabuikem.
I have not healed properly, but have travelled in pain to attend meetings and press for 's release and end up falling into deeper pain.
Attend protests and suffer the pains afterwards.
But I will keep standing as there is work to be done.
One thing is certain: at the right time, the whole truth will be laid bare.
Our people must come to the consciousness of who we are and what we want. Not by war of bullets and stones, but by the power of our will and determination..
And we have begun!
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