A 99-year-old woman, Mrs Sarah Nwanyisunday Oparaocha from Etitinabu Na Ndagbo in Afaraukwu, the hometown of Nnamdi Kanu, has appealed to the Federal government to ensure that the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is released.

Mrs Oparaocha, who spoke to newsmen and other media houses on Saturday at her residence in Afaraukwu, said that it was her ultimate wish to see the face of Nnamdi Kanu in Afaraukwu now that she was still alive.

The aged woman spoke on the same day that the people of the community held a meeting to ask for the release of their son, Nnamdi Kanu.

Speaking in undiluted Igbo language with laces of proverbs, Mrs Oparaocha said that she had been praying and crying every morning to God to touch the hearts of Nigerian leaders to release Kanu so he can return to his people.

“I will soon clock 100 years. I weep every morning during my prayers because of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“I am pleading with the Nigerian government to release him so I can see him before God calls me.

“I am now 99 years old and will soon be 100 years but my prayers now is to see Nnamdi Kanu with my eyes before God will eventually call me.

“Nobody knows when God will call but I will be happy if I see Kanu before that time,” she said.

She used the opportunity to advise the young people to eat natural native foods to live long, warning that unwholesome food consumption could damage the body system.