The Director of Strategy and
Documentation of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Olisa Mbakwe on Monday
announced that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu has been sacked from the group.
Mbakwe said Kanu was fired for
placing more value on his dog than those murdered in the struggle for the
realisation of Biafra.
Speaking during Sunday’s
broadcast from his base in Israel, Kanu mourned his dog and “a few other
people” in his compound, who lost their lives when military men invaded the
place in September 2017.
Kanu had said during the
broadcast, “The Army of the zoo killed my dog Jack and a few other people in my
compound. I am sorry for what my sureties are passing through, but I want to
assure them that they will have a special place in Biafra. I shall not be
honouring the court.”
Reacting, Mbakwe described Kanu
as an “insensitive and callous leader that has no value for his own followers
but rather his dog, Jack whom he paid tributes to after his long disappearance
from the struggle”.
In a statement he personally
signed, Mbakwe, of IPOB, also insisted that Kanu was a “traitor not worthy of
any leadership position anywhere in the world”.
He stated that Kanu was removed
for reasons which included, “personalisation of the Biafran struggle and
derailing from the core objectives of IPOB as a grassroots movement”.
The statement read: “On Sunday,
October 21, 2018, an individual, Mazi Nnamdi Nwanekaenyi Kanu, claiming to be
the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director General of
Radio Biafra made a live broadcast that has left us perplexed, because it is
unthinkable that someone will impersonate IPOB to the point of plotting to
abuse the organization to hurt the interest of Biafra.
“The strength of the Republic of
Biafra that we are struggling to actualize, is in its human resources as
embodied in our versatile youths that dominate the fields of play across
sectors of human endeavor; the country we have set our vision on creating is
therefore not to be made up of tombstones but of people fulfilling their life
missions as ordained by God.
“Nnamdi Kanu relinquished his
position as the leader of IPOB struggle the day he deserted our members to die,
when they had mobilized to stand for our belief in Biafra at his residence in
Afaraukwu. Several of our members were injured and some died in that encounter
and even after emerging from hiding more than one year later all Kanu could do
was to desecrate their memory with his radio broadcast. Nnamdi Kanu vividly,
specifically and particularly recalled his family dog, Jack, by name while he
dismissed our members that died as mere statistics — he only recalled them as
28 IPOB members.
“Even if Kanu had not deserted,
there is no way we would have continued under the leadership of a man that
values his family dog more than Biafrans.
“We are not unmindful of how Kanu
struck the deal that granted him bail in the first place while abandoning our
members, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawusi, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa and
Chidiebere Onwudiwe to languish in jail. Instead of using his freedom to
accelerate the freedom of these authentic freedom fighters, he rather went
about Biafra land receiving obeisance from Biafrans like a monarch, when our
dear land is completely republican. The travails of these our brothers are not
over yet and might have been worsened by Kanu’s live broadcast, which has
totally upset us.
“In line with the decisions
earlier announced on Radio Biafra on November 17, 2017 that Mazi Ezenwachukwu
Sampson Okwudili is the new director for the radio, we reaffirm that Mazi
Nnamdi Nwanekaenyi Kanu remains sacked as the Director of Radio Biafra and has
also been removed as the leader of IPOB since he has proven he is not a worthy
leader that respects the sanctity of the lives of our members.
“Following interventions by our
leaders, considerations were being made to reverse the earlier announcement but
after studying the Kanu’s live broadcast from Israel we came to the painful
conclusion that we cannot make progress with our vision of Biafra, when one man
has completely personalized and commercialized the struggle. The decision to
drop Nnamdi Kanu from playing leading roles in IPOB affairs is hereby upheld.
We shall announce replacements after consultations with the various
stakeholders.”
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