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.
Source: DailyPost
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