Family of the elusive leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has insisted that the Chief of
Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai knows the whereabouts of the IPOB leader.
The family said this while
describing as cheap and childish lies Buratai told an Abuja Federal High Court
that soldiers chased a truck laden with weapons into the house of Kanu’s father
in Afara Ukwu.
The Army boss had made the claim
in a counter-affidavit he filed against Kanu at the court.
Reacting to Buratai’s claim,
Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu described the Army Chief as a
liar, who should be jailed.
Speaking on behalf of Kanu’s
family, on Friday, Prince said, “What is General Buratai talking about? The
question I am asking is why should Justice Binta Nyako listen to such lies? If
she fails to jail Bruatai, that means the judicial system in this country
should not be trusted for any reason, he should be jailed for telling such
cheap and childish lies, this is shameful, not when we have evidences.
“If the Minister of Defence said
in a Television programme that he authorised the invasion, how could Bruatai
come out to say something different? If after the invasion on September 14 and
on September 16there was a press state by Abia State commissioner of police
admitting they recovered some ammunitions from our house why then is the COAS
on November 16 is denying they never invaded the house. If there was no
invasion of the house, how come that the whole place was riddled with bullets?
How come that people were killed including our dog and the Eagle bird we kept
in the house?
“All of them are confused, they don’t
even know what they are saying, there is even no sense of direction since the
Minister of Defence will say something different and the Chief of Army Staff
will also say something different, they should coordinate their lies.
“The truth remains that soldiers
invaded our home without any course and they took so many people away including
Nnamdi Kanu; either they’ve killed him or still keeping him somewhere. So, how
come they are lying; are they lying against the local media or the
international media which have visited the house and found out there was an
invasion? So, who is deceiving who here? From the look of things everyone now
knows that Nnamdi Kanu was either killed or taken away by the military.”
The IPOB leader’s younger brother
said if the army had traced someone who had truck load of ammunition to their
house, the COAS should tell the world who the person was, when it happened and
the evidence to show that they traced someone with dangerous weapons to their
house.
“If the truck laden with the so
called dangerous weapons was blown up by the driver as claimed by Bruatai,
where is the charred body of the lorry or the ashes? The bottom line of
everything is that there was no truck laden with weapons that was found near our
house; the army invaded our house without any just course and as a matter of
fact, Buratai knows where Nnamdi Kanu is and he should produce him.”
Prince claimed that during the
invasion, “They (soldiers) took away our personal belongings, generator sets,
food items, shot the eagle bird in our house, the dog and took away boxes
containing our mother’s clothing and vandalized vehicles in our compound after
riddling it with bullets.”
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The whole this is funny anyway, let's see the next lie army will tell, as events unfolding
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