The Abia State
Police Commissioner, Ene Okon has vowed to arrest the leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, if he ever returns to the state.
Kanu has been on
the run since he was granted bail by the Justice Binta Nyako-led Federal High
Court in Abuja few years back.
The IPOB leader had
escaped out of Nigeria shortly before men of the Nigerian Army invaded his
residence in Afaraukwu in Abia State few years ago.
However, the Abia
commissioner of police, in a chat with The Sun, said if Kanu stepped into the
state he would be apprehended and handed over the court for his trial.
Okon also rubbished
Kanu’s style of struggle for secession, stressing that the IPOB leader was
“carrying out hard, subversive tendencies”.
According to Okon:
“Kanu? Those ones were merely nationalists, Nelson Mandela fought apartheid,
which apartheid is Nnamdi Kanu fighting in Nigeria?
” There are no
bases for comparison what happened in India and South Africa with what Nnamdi
Kanu is doing. Mandela fought against apartheid, but Kanu is carrying out hard,
subversive tendencies.
“He is already a
wanted man. You and I knew how he escaped; he is standing trial already, so,
any time he steps in here and he is seen, he has to be arrested and handed over
to the court to face his trial.”
Biafra stay-at-home: IPOB speaks on attacking Catholic priest in Anambra
The Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to claims that emerged from Nnewi, Anambra
State, that some of its members attacked a Catholic priest during the
stay-at-home order held across South-Eastern Nigeria on Thursday.
IPOB’s reaction was
contained in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma
Powerful.
The group said that
it remains the most peaceful organization as there had never been any evidence
of them wielding any gun or any weapon to attack people not to talk of
Christians.
IPOB thanked the
Nnewi business community and other cities for standing in solidarity with the
group on Thursday to show respect to the fallen heroes and heroines of Biafra.
The group’s
statement added, “It is crystal clear to the general public that since the
inception of IPOB, we don’t carry or move about with machete, AK47 rifle or any
kind of weapon.
“We wonder why
Nigeria Government and her security agencies would come up with such rubbish
instead of saying really what happened in Nnewi and how they failed to deceive
Biafrans to obey the sit at home order issued by IPOB authority.
“It’s very pathetic
that National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) clashed with some Nnewi youth
and drug peddlers in Nnewi yesterday and tagged it to a peaceful movement like
IPOB.
“Since the
formation and commencement of this great movement championing for the
liberation of Biafran people, we never attacked or killed anybody in Biafraland
or in Nigeria state. IPOB does not indulge on such evil acts no matter the
level of attack, killing, humiliation, intimidation, torture against us.
“We are aware that
they can only use sponsored media attack and misinformation to deceive and
confuse the general public about the successful outcome of this sit at home
order held on Thursday 30th of May.
“But pictures and
video evidences are there in every social platforms detailing clearly how
compliance in every part of Biafraland. Involving IPOB in this recent attack
against innocent citizens who were coming back from night vigil in Nnewi, it is
unacceptable.
“We are not Fulani
Herdsmen terrorists and Boko Haram members who attack Christians and churches
randomly without Nigeria Army and police stopping them.
“let it be known by
the general public that the government headed and dominated by Fulani soldiers
and politicians are sponsoring Fulani Herdsmen terrorists and Boko Haram
members to attack Christians and churches in Nnewi and other parts of
Biafraland.
“Given by this
confirmation of successful and total compliance of this year event security
operatives decided out of shame and disgrace to give IPOB members bad name to
confused the gullible people that IPOB attacked church and Christians in
Nnewi.”
Biafra: IPOB reveals why
Nigerian Government shutdown Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri seaports
The Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, Monday, said that the Federal Government’s closure of
the seaports in the South-South was to strangulate the economy of South-East.
This was part of a
statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful on
Monday.
In the statement,
Powerful quoted IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as demanding the reopening of
Warri, Calabar and Port Harcourt seaports.
The IPOB described
their continued closure as one of the injustices it had been fighting.
The statement
added, “IPOB is about the liberation of all Biafra territories. Only mischief
makers will imply otherwise.
“Yet, some people
from the coastal part of Biafraland will beat their chest to admit to working
towards one Nigeria and foolishly channel their grievances against the same
IPOB that is trying to save all of us.
“These traitors
hiding under the name of one pro-Biafra group or another cleverly forgot that
their masters in the Federal Government have reached an agreement to build a
dry port worth $250 million in Ibadan, while Igweocha a city the British
colonial masters renamed Port Harcourt in Rivers State has no functional port.
“It is on record
that I have consistently asked for the reopening of Warri, Calabar and Igweocha
seaports.
“For those accusing
us of making IPOB an Igbo affair, Warri is not in Igboland, neither is Calabar,
but as anyone in the know will testify, I have always insisted these demands of
reopening South-South seaports, be met before any formal dialogue can take
place.
“It was not a
Biafran or Igboman that killed Ken Saro Wiwa, neither was it an Igbo man that
killed Adaka Boro. Why it is that Yoruba that support northern hegemony gets
everything whereas the governing elite of the coastal region loyal to the North
cannot attract the same level of interest?
“A new mega-seaport
is being built in Badagry to add to Tin Can and Apapa Wharfs but South-South
seaports were closed down to strangulate the economy of Biafra.
“They have railway
lines crisscrossing the entire West, but there is nothing in our land (South
South and South East).
“Where are the
Fulani approved elites in the South-South or the Arewa Consultative Forum
anointed leaders of South-East? Don’t we have resources for a Seaport site?,
yet $250m will be spent to build an artificial one.
“These traitors
will not fight their oppressor, but are comfortably happy to accept crumbs
falling off the master’s table to fight IPOB, that is fighting to liberate
them.
“I have never and
will never collect money from anyone to sell or compromise our puritanical
stance because unlike these stomach infrastructure agitators, I will sacrifice
anything sacrificeable to get Biafra.
“I rejected every
financial inducement when I was incarcerated and detained in Kuje, I would not
insult myself by accepting anything from anybody now. I want to tell Ohaneze
Ndigbo leaders, Igbo governors, PANDEF leaders and every other meaningless
‘settle me and my boys groups’ out there that our problem is their lack of
patriotic discipline and weak mindedness. IPOB has gone way too far in this
effort to restore Biafra.
“The jihadist Arewa
core north have given N100 billion to Fulani Herdsmen killers, but how to stop
30th May Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day, is of paramount issue to Igbo
politicians. Is this not the height of misplaced priorities?
“It’s a shame to
the Old Eastern region, how the North keeps on messing with our brain because
some people cannot afford to resist financial inducement. They keep on fooling
our so called leaders and disgracing them out of power in the end.
“The level of humiliation
and marginalization is now a shame to our region. What a shame…look at how
Okoroawusa is being disgraced from pillar to post after serving his Fulani
kinsmen. His only mistake is that he has an Igbo name. They have even forgotten
that he is one of them. That is the extent of their hatred for anything
Biafra.”
"We will track down the killers of Prophet Nwoko" - Biafra group
Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has stated
that it will not relent in the ongoing hunt for the alleged murderers of late
pro-Biafra Prophet, Anthony Nwoko.
The group, in a statement on
Wednesday, signed by its Acting Leader and Head of Operations, Ebuta Victor
Takon, claimed that the killers of the prophet were six in number, and vowed to
track them down.
BNYL was reacting to the recent statement
from the indicted Chief Security of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Enugu
chapter, Victor Egede, who denied involvement in the killing.
Egede had said he never knew late Nwoko until
his death.
But reacting to his claim, Takon, said his
group will not go back to its word in hunting down the killers.
Takon said he relied on the investigation of
the group made public by the BNYL Leader, Princewill C Richard.
He also said that pro-Biafran groups were not
at war with each other.
According to him, “I don’t care how they view
it, I know this is what the enemies want to hear.
“They have succeeded in sponsoring some
pro-Biafrans against their colleagues, but will fail.”
He said the report circulating online that
the group was hunting IPOB members was false.
“We are not after the innocent but from
intelligent information leaked to us, we are working on tracking the killers,
they were six in number and all with matchets.”
The apex
Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday highlighted
reasons for the high-level insecurity in Nigeria.
Ohanaeze claimed that the presidency’s alleged weak handling of killer
herdsmen was responsible for the level of insecurity in the country.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chuks Ibegbu also
blamed insecurity in the country on the elites and government officials, who
loot public funds.
In a statement he signed, Ibegbu said: “We blame the issue of
insecurity on elite insensitivity, looting of our commonwealth by government
officials which leave the people and youths pauperized, inadequate training for
security agents and nepotism in their recruitment.
“Kids glove treatment of armed killer herdsmen by government officials
and the Presidency, parasitism by the ruling elites who corner the commonwealth
of the people to their bottomless pockets, culture of impunity in high and low
places, injustice and inequality between the haves and have nots, and the
excessive breeding of the population which leads to population explosion
especially of the youth strata.”
Ibegbu also stated that the “population of idle youths in Nigeria is
much caused by uncontrolled breeding especially in the North.
“There are more than 20million idle almajiris in the North, 7million
area boys in the west and 10 million militants and idle hands drawn into IPOB
and MASSOB in the East and South-South respectively.
“When you have this angry youth population in the country you can
imagine the consequences. The elites in the North now travel from Kaduna to
Abuja by rail to avoid being kidnapped along the road. The elites in the East
and South-South have no functional rail to travel through so they must face the
kidnappers along East-West road.
“The elites in the Southwest are luckier, they can go by air or sea and
some along the risky Lagos-Ibadan expressway. So nowhere is safe any more in
Nigeria, not even barracks, except perhaps Aso Rock and state Government
Houses,” he added.
On the way forward, Ibegbu called on the “Nigeria elites and ruling
class to repent and address the needs of the youths and common masses else they
will have no peace since they sowed the wind, they will continue to reap the
whirlwind.”
IPOB Leader, Kanu meets diplomatic community in Germany, plans US meeting
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu on Monday
met the diplomatic community in Germany, in his attempt to seek support for the
actualisation of Biafra Republic.
According toEmma Powerful, Media And Publicity Secretary
for IPOB, Kanu’s meeting was a move to restore Biafra’s sovereignty and
freedom.
He said, “The recent diplomatic move by the IPOB leader in Germany
yesterday (Monday) is another sign that Biafra restoration is a divine project.
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“Our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been making serious moves to restore
Biafra in our lifetime which most of the enemies of Biafra don’t know.
“We thank the Jewish community in Germany for their gesture and
hospitality to our leader Mazi Nnamdi and other IPOB family members who were
with him and the Israeli support to restore Biafra as an independent nation.
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We gathered that Kanu met members of the diplomatic community
in Germany, led by Chief Rabbi of Munich and Greater Bayern, Shmuel Brodman.
A source within the IPOB rank told our correspondent that Kanu plans to
make another trip to the United States of America soon for another meeting.
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