Former Kaduna Senator Shehu Sani has expressed his views on the life imprisonment sentence given to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
In a statement posted on his verified X handle on Friday, Sani remarked that life imprisonment is a phase, not a conclusion.
The Federal High Court in Abuja, under the authority of Justice James Omotosho, found Kanu guilty on Thursday of seven terrorism charges. Consequently, Kanu received a life sentence on five counts, a 20-year sentence on one count, and a five-year sentence on another, all to run concurrently.
According to the former legislator, “Sentencing a man to life imprisonment is not the end of his life. Some of us have been through life imprisonment and we survived it.
I served my own life imprisonment in Aba Prisons, Abia State, after spending a year in Kiri Kiri and Port Harcourt prisons. The inmates and warders treated me well, except for some few tough guys.”
He emphasized that there remains an opportunity for dialogue to address the issue in the interest of peace, viewing life imprisonment as merely a phase.
