The international media arm of
the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Radio Biafra, has resumed
operations.
But instead of the fiery rhetoric
with which it was associated with, the radio announced the sack of Nnamdi Kanu,
as director and leader of IPOB.
The Radio Biafra’s programme
started between 6am -7am on Sunday with the lady announcer, who gave her name
as Ifeoma Okorafor, stating that the radio was restructuring.
Then the shocking announcement
that “Mazi Nnamdi Nwanekaenyi Kanu, the former Director of Radio Biafra is
hereby dismissed and removed as Director of Radio Biafra following extensive
and intensive consultations”
According to Okorafor, one “Mazi
Ezenwachukwu Sampson Okwudili is Kanu’s replacement.”
She reeled out reasons why Kanu
was removed to include: “Personalisation of the Biafran struggle and derailing
from the core objectives of IPOB as a grassroots movement.
“Kanu’s actions and his decisions
to incite members of IPOB towards violence leading to the death of many
innocent young people in Onitsha, Aba and Umuahia is totally unacceptable and
grossly irresponsible.
“Kanu privately collected £14
million and another $22 million to purchase landed properties abroad in his
name and that of his father, Igwe Israel Kanu, in a clear case of ‘monkey dey
work baboon dey chop’.
“Kanu turned our collective
struggle into a money-making enterprise for himself and his father. Thus the
monies contributed by enterprising and hard-working Igbo youths across the
world are being collected and converted by one man and his father while
pretending to be sacrificing for the cause.
“Upon his release from detention
in April 2017, one expected Kanu to drum up support for the release of his
colleagues and co-detainees such as Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and
David Nwawuisi. These are our brothers who were arrested at the same time with
him and they should not be forgotten. We hereby demand their release. Kanu,
since his release, has never spoken about them or appealed for the release of
these our freedom fighters. Instead, he has been going about collecting
chieftaincy titles and having a messianic swagger that even allowed
full-blooded Igbo men to kneel down and kiss his feet.
“Kanu threw away the original
meaning of our collective struggle for personal gain and vain glorification.
IPOB believes in democracy as a solid base of any modern state, the rule of
law, and will always reject violence in all its ramifications.”
Daily Independent Newspaper
reports that there was a mixture of excitement and confusion within Nigeria
security circles as a result of this new development in IPOB as security
agencies do not know what to make of this.
The sack of Kanu is only the
latest change in the checkered history of Radio Biafra, which began as the
mouthpiece of MASSOB.
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He probably has paid his mortgage in the UK then bought more properties there.Igbo Kwenu!
ReplyDeleteEyah,so the president of the Biafra republic is also corrupt. I thought they call him their messiah
ReplyDeleteKanu in collaboration with his father have used some Igbo's head to make life better for himself and immediate family. So, all this 'gra gra' shouting is all because of money. Radio Biafra should locate him and prosecute him for stealing.
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