Mbaka praises IPOB leader, says Nnamdi Kanu ‘spoke for his people’

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), says Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), did not commit any crime but spoke for his people.

Speaking in a sermon on Wednesday, Mbaka said God will bless Kanu for his courage, because the rising insecurity in the country is “mind-blowing”.

The IPOB leader has been on exile for more than two years. He jumped bail after he was arraigned for alleged treason.

The Catholic priest, however, said he has never met Kanu and does not know him.

“Up till today, I don’t know who Nnamdi Kanu is. I have never seen him face-to-face. Look at my hand on the altar again but I want to tell you something,” he said.

“Wherever he is, may God bless him; because if someone has risen up to shout that his brothers are suffering, is it a crime?

“May the Lord bless his courage. What is happening is tear-shedding, heart-rending, nerve-breaking, mind-blowing.”

Mbaka lamented the killings across the country, and called on government at all levels to do better to address the situation.

“Can our security agents and leaders account for how many children, how many Nigerians have died under one week, under one month? Students are being kidnapped from the universities and there is a leadership,” he said.

“No! Either they are involved in it or they should stop it or what is happening will stop them.

“So Buhari and Hope and co… and those who want to fight, before you begin to fight, remember that there was a time God asked me to support you people. Now, God has asked me to withdraw and prophesy against you.”