The Founder of the One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj ji, has appealed to the Federal Government to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB , Nnamdi Kanu to explain the reason behind his action of fighting the government.
He said the same gesture should be extended to Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, whose house in Ibadan was recently raided by men of the Department of State Services, DSS, leaving two of his associates dead.
Maharaj ji, who said he abhorred violence against the government, said he just wanted the government to allow them to explain why they took their actions against the government, so that Nigeria will be seen as a mature country.
Speaking at an interactive session with the media in Lagos at the weekend, Maharaj ji said: “If you checked, since the day I started this missionary service, I have told everybody that violence is not the key. I was in the East and I told the elders: You can’t go to war, you need peace. The same way, for Kanu to establish a radio station and use it to attack the government is wrong. You don’t attack elders, you should explain. We should give honour to whom honour is due.
“For Igboho, I have not heard anywhere that he killed anybody. Government should give them a chance to say something. I don’t know more than what I have read in the newspapers. So for peace to reign, they should be given a chance to explain, for the world to know that we have matured as a country. Nigeria remains the giant of Africa.”
On his alleged arrest by the men of DSS after a raid on Igboho’s Soka Ibadan house, Maharaj ji denied being arrested, saying he had been in Lagos.
He explained: “I have been in Lagos for almost two weeks now and no DSS has arrested me. I wasn’t in Ibadan when Igboho’s house was raided. I was in Lagos. And I have been in Lagos for the past few weeks trying to organise a programme to rebuild our structure here in Lagos. Anybody saying I was arrested is not telling the truth.”
On the attempt by some land grabbers to take part of his Ibadan property on the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, he said he has got judgements in his favour on the land but that the land grabbers are however encroaching on the land using some policemen to achieve their aim forcefully.
He warned some elements in the police to desist from assisting the land grabbers to forcefully take possession of his land, saying the actions of these policemen would give the government a bad name.
