Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has restated his agitation for the breakaway of Biafra from the rest of the country, saying: “It is Biafra or nothing; Nigerians knows that.”
He said he was not agitating for Biafra’s “secession” from Nigeria because “Biafra is older than Nigeria” and cannot therefore be seceding from the “contraption”. Instead, he said all he seeks is his people’s return to “the way we were before the British came”.
Kanu, who has been in detention since October 2015, also asserted that the purpose of his birth is to “save Biafrans”.
In a statement released by Emma Powerful, spokesman of IPOB, Kanu said: “The reason my mother gave birth to me was to restore and save Biafrans.
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“I also promise that the Biafran race will be a cleaned-up nation and all the people of Biafra will come back home, if they are living outside the country of the new nation. Our people will no longer wander on the road again.
“How can I encourage the people of Biafra to work towards the upbringing of Nigeria, when we don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food and don’t have the same culture? In fact, if we come to their land to practise our culture and religion, we will be beheaded.
“Their women wear hijab, and Biafran women don’t, and on the point that our women don’t wear hijab and we don’t practise the same religion, they will see us as infidels and then, we will be beheaded. We are 100 per cent Christians. These people are Muslims who see killing as a culture.
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“In Biafra where we originated from, it will be hard for our people to kill a human being, because in my language a human being is called MMANDU, which means in English language the beauty of life. Now, you can see it will never work, the only solution is Biafra.
“We are not trying to secede from Nigeria. We are older than Nigeria. You can only talk about seceding if Nigeria is the one that colonized Biafra. But we are older than that contraption. So we can’t secede rather we just want to go back the way we were before the British came. It is Biafra or nothing, Nigerians know that.”
10 comments
we are behind u and God is behind us .up BIAFRA in God we trust
My prayer is that our God will keep you away from their evil plans. You our next Nelson Mandela. I totally agreed with wt u we and these ppl never hv anything in common, not in language, nt in dressing, nt in religion, even food name it we’re difference from creation. It’s just the problem Britain creates to us. I know one day God will do it for us,just one this problem will b over.
I don’t see hausas as our problems, but the fellow Igbos who are just living for their belly’s. They’re ready to sabotage every effort for their selfish gain and their wicked heart. I clld samballant and tobia of old.they know how to visit Abuja
Nnamdi KANU is dillusional, before he starts talking rubbish he should provide jobs in the south east…those he realize that many Igbo people are working in the north? Because he is idle..he wants to render others jobless abi? instead of soughting out the corruption and maximal greed in the south east, he is talking wrought and mumu Niger delta is following, bunch of hooligans wld just stay and b disturbing peace…mtscheeeew
Why didn’t you and your zoo Nigeria government create some of those job opportunities in the Biafran region from where you all stole our oil and gas money to develop and create opportunities in the north and west?
Jiji watz do u mean. Igbo words said wen person speak u wl knw his age. Jiji is it hausa or wat language
True, Biafra was in existence before the creation of Nigeria . Biafrans don’t share the same culture with them. Again, Biafrans have great respect for God and human beings. But Nigerian have greater value for their Larma more than human life. God must save Biafrans the same way he saved the Isrealites
Let the common man have sense ooo, this people are not fighting for anyone, they are just taking out their frustration, pls Nnamdi is being dillusional He should b sued to international court for attempted genocides, through his inciting talk…They would b using God.If Biafra wants to emancipate let it b done peacefully like Britain, let’s b wise
God will help us archive Biafra
Am with you my man