That’s how all this got started and that’s how it’s going to end,” adding, “Fulani terrorists in #AsoRock have taken over all media outlets in #Nigeria and levied war on us all. Quoting Jenny Han, Kanu declared: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a burn for a burn, a life for a life.
And so, it was, on Friday, when Kanu declared on his regular broadcast on Radio Biafra, monitored by THEWILL, through his official Twitter handle, even from his hide-out. His late father, Eze Israel Kanu, sure knew his son very well when he declared that the IPOB leader would rather prefer to die than to give up the Biafran cause. QUITE UNREPENTANTĪpparently living up to his Biafran dream, Kanu seems to be unrepentant, despite his present predicament.
An attack on his family house in September 2017 forced him to flee, thus jumping bail, following which the Federal Government declared him wanted. However, Kanu continued his agitation amid several clampdowns on his members and supporters across the South-East.
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Kanu was detained without trial for over a year and was eventually released on bail in April 2017 following a public outcry. The Federal Government eventually proscribed the pro-Biafran organisation under the Nigeria Terrorism Act. While calling for the immediate release of Kanu and other activists from detention, the pro-Biafra protests continued unabated until a Federal High Court in Abuja pronounced IPOB as a terrorist organisation on September 18, 2017. Mobilising across the nooks and crannies of the entire South-East, IPOB continued to grow in leaps and bounds as the fire of self-determination for Biafra among the average Igbo youth kept burning.
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The arrest sparked off a series of protests by IPOB supporters who clashed with the security forces on several occasions, resulting in deaths of many police officers and IPOB members. Trouble started for the 54-year-old political activist when he was arrested by the DSS on October 19, 2015.
Realising that, that tactic might not prevent him from being arrested eventually, given the determination of the British authorities to hand him over to Nigeria, Kanu fled the United Kingdom, which, we reliably gathered, is obliged and determined to honour the request for his arrest and transfer to Abuja under the Mutual Legal Agreement Treaty between the Nigerian and British governments.īriefly sighted in Canada following his flight from the United Kingdom as he embarked on his search for refuge, Kanu is believed to be hiding in Ethiopia at present. THEWILL authoritatively gathered that the embattled Biafran leader, who holds a Nigerian/British dual citizenship, in apparent preparation for the worst, has allegedly dumped his Nigerian nationality as the first step to evading arrest by the British authorities and his eventual hand-over to the Federal Government. The decimation of the IPOB apparatchiki with the killing of IPOB’s second-in-command, Ikonson Commander, in Awomama, Oru East Local Government Area, Imo State, a fortnight ago by a combined team of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team and operatives of the Department of State Services was part of the robust and renewed onslaught against Kanu and elements of his movement.Īnxiety As FG Takes Terrorism Financiers to CourtĪside other charges, Kanu, who founded the IPOB in 2012 had been declared wanted by the Nigerian authorities for jumping bail after his brief release by the police in 2017, when his organisation was proscribed and declared a terrorist group. Inside sources close to the development confided in THEWILL that the recent upsurge in violent attacks on government institutions and security facilities across the country, especially the incessant attacks in the South-East, were the main reasons for the renewed determination of the Federal Government to bring Kanu back to Nigeria to continue his trial for alleged treasonable felony. THEWILL gathered exclusively last week that the application for the detention and extradition of the Biafran leader was made by the government about two weeks ago through the official diplomatic channel at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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