Kenya government on Friday denied involvement in the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, saying “it does not want to be dragged into Nigeria’s internal affairs.”

Nnamdi Kanu’s brother Kingsley Kanu had claimed that his brother was in Kenya when he was stopped at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on June 26.

He said Kanu was handed over to Nigeria the following day.

But Kenyan government officials in separate interviews with Reuters and Kenya’s Nation newspaper debunked the 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.

“I can’t know that,” Mr Muteshi said when asked whether the claims made by the family were true.

Although Nigeria's minister of Information didn't. Specifically reveal where Kanu was arrested abroad, he said Kanu’s re-arrest and repatriation was made possible through the collaboration of Nigerian security and intelligence agencies.

Kanu had been earlier slammed with an 11-count charge bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory matter, illegal possession of firearms and improper importation of goods before he jumped bail in 2017.

According to the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, SAN, Kanu is now also accused of inciting violence through television, radio and online broadcasts that resulted in the loss of lives and property of civilians, military, paramilitary, police forces as well as the destruction of civil institutions and symbols of authority in the Southeast.