The founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and top leaders of his group have gone into hiding following Friday’s declaration by the Nigerian Army that IPOB and other Pro-Biafran groups were terrorists organisations.
Investigations revealed that Kanu and his top lieutenants had ‘disappeared’ from his country home in Afaraukwu near Umuahia and other places he frequently visited.
His father, Eze Israel Kanu, is the traditional ruler of the town.
Some IPOB members, who spoke on conditions of anonymity explained that Kanu and others were advised to go underground following the declaration by the Army and the decision of the South-East governors to proscribe activities of pro-Biafra agitators in the region.
An IPOB member said, “We have to apply wisdom to whatever we are doing. We have realised that there is a grand conspiracy against Kanu and other top leaders of our group.
“Just imagine barely few hours after the Nigerian military declared members of IPOB and other pro-Biafran groups as terrorists, our own governors came up with their own outright ban of our activities.
“This definitely will give the soldiers and other security agencies the opportunity to arrest our leader and mount a deadly clampdown on all IPOB members. So, it is better to operate from a hideout for now.”
I can’t disclose my brother’s location — Kanu’s brother
When contacted on phone on Saturday, Kanu’s younger brother simply identified as Fine Boy, refused to reveal where his brother was, adding that only the IPOB leader could disclose his hiding place.
He said, “Only my brother can tell Nigerians where he is, I can’t. I don’t know why the Army should call IPOB a terrorist organisation, it is out of their desperation to arrest Nnamdi and frustrate the Biafran struggle. We have petitioned the United Nations and the European Union.
“The world knows that IPOB is a non-violent organisation, we don’t carry arms, we don’t kill, and we believe violence can never solve any problem.
“Nnamdi will soon disclose his current location and IPOB will also react to the proscription of the group by the South-East governors’ forum.”
Security agencies comb South-East for Kanu, others
Security agencies have started combing the South-East region in search of Kanu.
Findings by our source in Abuja showed that the security agencies had been directed to arrest Kanu and other leaders of his group.
The directive to arrest the IPOB leaders was said to have been communicated to the leaders of the security agencies deployed in the region.
The security agencies that were given the directive, according to investigations, include the military, the police and the Department of State Services.
It was gathered that the government felt that it could be dangerous to leave Kanu a free man till the next adjourned date when his case would come up at an Abuja Federal High Court.
His case is said to be coming up later in October.
A top security sources said, “We are seriously looking for him. He has a lot of things to explain to the government concerning his statements, actions and activities.
“We can’t sit by and allow the security situation in the country to be compromised to the extent that an individual will be challenging the Federal Government.
“Government has to do something about an individual that is recruiting young people, giving them uniforms, arming them and referring to them as a secret service.
“We have been seizing arms and ammunitions at the ports; we also need to know what they were meant for.
“This is someone who unilaterally said there would be no election in Anambra State and some people want us to allow him continue with his activities? No, we need to grow above our ethnic and tribal sentiments.”
South-East govs disloyal — IPOB
IPOB on Saturday night condemned the South East Governor’s Forum over its proscription of IPOB’s activities. Its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, said the speed with which the governors announced the proscription of IPOB activities showed that the governors were disloyal.
IPOB said, “We want to find out how the governors who do not know the foundations of IPOB, would make such a statement when they know that IPOB had staged 297 peaceful protests and rallies both at home and in Diaspora without a single record of violence or crime.
“With the record on ground, IPOB under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is one of the most peaceful organised freedom fighting group in the world today. It is dangerous that the governors who are the chief security officers of their respective states in the zone would decide to hand over their people to the enemies who were out to kill, maim and destroy because of their selfish reasons. We are also aware that late Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and General Philip Effiong protected their people during the first pogrom and ethnic cleansing from 1966’to 1970.
“These governors and their collaborators are in the forefront to eliminate our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other peaceful members of IPOB. It is on record that IPOB activities are peaceful since the inception and nobody can prove where and how IPOB activities became violent over night.
“The solders brought in to eliminate or murder our leader and IPOB members, including the innocent civilians across Biafra land, are still going from house to house picking anyone suspected to be IPOB or seen with any Biafra insignia. IPOB under Kanu must remain a nonviolent group in the pursuit for Biafra freedom, despite the high handedness meted against IPOB members and our leader.”
Ohanaeze Ndigbo also faulted Nigeria army’s declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organisation. Ohanaeze said, “IPOB is not a terrorist organization going by extant national and international laws, especially the terrorist prevention Act 2011, as amended in 2015.”
It however praised the South-East Governors for stopping conflict in the region. In a communique read by the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, the group condemned the military operation in the zone and urged the army to terminate the exercise henceforth. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Why going into hiding, if he's not a coward and truly believes anyone who comes to arrest him would die
ReplyDeleteI WONDER OOH, he says no one can come to biafraland and touch him y hiding like a rat.
DeleteSame idiot that boasted to his gullible IPOB followers and scalliwags that when war starts that it will take him just weeks to capture Sokoto. Now that the military is just looking for him he's chicken out and gone into hiding. This is exactly what will happen as soon as soon as he causes trouble for the Igbos he will just disappear like a coward while the numerous youths sheepishly believing his lies will be the ones left to suffer.
DeleteWhen the Jewish people wanted to kill Jesus he also hide from them because his time has not yet come
DeleteSo Kanu is Jesus too? Mumu like u!!
DeleteDon't mind JECS, his mumu neva do" the same Kanu who sold them the dummy that Igbos are descendents of Jews and are from Israel and many of them were swearing on their ancestors grave that it is true! Now that genetic testing has disproved that fantasy and that that don't even have 1% similarity with the Jews they have suddenly become quiet and dumb. Almost all Kanu followers are like sheep who do not have any reasoning of their own but that of the fraudster called Kanu. THEIR MUMU NEVA DO.. PLENTY REMAIN.
DeleteStop mentioning JESUS this way
DeleteGoes into hiding,somewhere safe. Meanwhile, the foolish & gullible ones have put their lives on the line, died foolishly,while Kanu is alive & well, having instigated them. For others who are still pursuing this course, Wisdom is profitable to the wise
ReplyDeleteKanu should come out from hiding, talk is cheap, with all the boasting, he ran away, place a few million on him, someone will bust his bubble.
ReplyDeleteSo d lion of d east can go into hiding?? Ffk , fayose has misled d young man..when d chips are down, is when you test loyalty and brotherhood. Kanu ! U had no friends, not in Asari, not in ffk, not in fayose, not in ohaneze, not in south east governors and not even in Ndigbo..they have all rejected you..suddenly they are speaking out against u, meaning that u never really controlled them but they all accepted u out of fear of your attack or losing their political influence because of ur miscreants ...the die is now cast, please stand up and die for Biafra as u had always boasted about.if u know u are not guilty why run?? U should have waited..after amassing weapons to forment war, suddenly u disappeared.. Yet ur gullible followers have died foolishly.. Come out n fight ooo..remember u said u will bring Buhari' head home..we dey wait
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ReplyDeleteLolz
ReplyDeleteSo kanu has returned to him home abroad to meet his wife and kids. While the jobless IPMOB members has no where to run to...
That's the sign of what will happen after kanu caused war and trouble for igbos.
He will just flee and leave the jobless igbo guys to face the consequences...
So d lion of d east can go into hiding?? Ffk , fayose has misled d young man..when d chips are down, is when you test loyalty and brotherhood. Kanu ! U had no friends, not in Asari, not in ffk, not in fayose, not in ohaneze, not in south east governors and not even in Ndigbo..they have all rejected you..suddenly they are speaking out against u, meaning that u never really controlled them but they all accepted u out of fear of your attack or losing their political influence because of ur miscreants ...the die is now cast, please stand up and die for Biafra as u had always boasted about.if u know u are not guilty why run?? U should have waited..after amassing weapons to forment war, suddenly u disappeared.. Yet ur gullible followers have died foolishly.. Come out n fight ooo..remember u said u will bring Buhari' head home..we dey wait
ReplyDeleteGood talk.Kanuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu,why becoming a rat that run inside hole now.Remember u will be smoked out of that hole.You just killed ur foolish brs and pic race.
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