Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), says his group will continue to hold
Nigerian politicians accountable.
Speaking in an interview aired on
BEN TV London, Kanu said very soon, all Nigerian governors who have refused to
pay workers’ salaries but “travelling aimlessly across the world” would be
stopped from doing so.
He also described the assault on
Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, as a “family matter”.
Last month, some IPOB members
attacked Ekweremadu who was attending the annual New Yam festival in Nuremberg,
Germany.
The action of the group had
sparked reactions but in the interview, the IPOB leader said it would be
resolved.
“Very soon, any governor who has
not paid salaries will not come abroad anymore. If you are owing salaries
you’re not allowed to go abroad anymore,” he said.
“You bank teachers’ salaries, you
bank the salaries of pensioners, you cannot come abroad anymore. So this is
just the beginning. We’ll not attack them; we’ll just ask them questions. It is
called picketing. It’s allowed within the ambit of democratic rules.
“If we see you, we’ll ask you
what you’ve been doing with teachers’ salaries, nurses’ salaries and why you’ve
not been paying people and what are you doing here? Any governor owing workers
once we catch you abroad you’ll tell us what you’ve being doing with the
salaries you’re supposed to pay.
“It doesn’t matter the state you
come from, but once we catch you, you must explain why you’ve not paid for four
months, six months and nine months.”
Kanu also defended the style of
the group, saying the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo did not win
people over easily.
“There’s no time on this earth
that any process of agitation will be palatable for everyone or easy for
everyone to buy into,” he said.
“When Nnamdi Azikiwe was
campaigning for Nigeria to be free from colonial rule, he was sent to prison.
Many people felt he was a radical and declined to associate themselves with
him. But in the end he succeeded in freeing Nigeria not knowing that we are
jumping from frying pan to fire.
“Awolowo was the same thing. He
was a fire brand. Many people didn’t like his approach from the beginning, but
on reflection and review of what he did and how he managed to accomplish them,
people have come to understand that he meant well for his people.
“So, now that these things are
happening, most people would not appreciate it, but I’m sure that in many years
to come, historians will look back to what’s happening today.”
He added that: “Everybody is in
line with what we are doing except the criminals. Everyone is in line with what
we are doing.”
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