IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu Flees , Goes Into Hiding

IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu Flees , Goes Into
Hiding

Leader of the secessionist group Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB), Kanu has gone into
hiding following the declaration by the
Nigerian Army that the group is a terrorist
organization.

Both Kanu, and other top leaders of the
group, have according to Punch, gone into
hiding since the declaration.
Members of the group who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said it was a decision
the group took together.

They said:
We have to apply wisdom to whatever we are
doing. We have realised that there is a grand
conspiracy against Kanu and other top
leaders of our group.

Just imagine barely few hours after the
Nigerian military declared members of IPOB
and other pro-Biafran groups as terrorists,
our own governors came up with their own
outright ban of our activities.

This definitely will give the soldiers and other
security agencies the opportunity to arrest
our leader and mount a deadly clampdown
on all IPOB members. So, it is better to
operate from a hideout for now.
Nnamdi Kanu’s brother, popularly known as
Fine Boy, has said only his brother can
disclose where he is at the moment.

He said:
Only my brother can tell Nigerians where he
is, I can’t. I don’t know why the Army should
call IPOB a terrorist organisation, it is out of
their desperation to arrest Nnamdi and
frustrate the Biafran struggle. We have
petitioned the United Nations and the
European Union.

The world knows that IPOB is a non-violent
organisation, we don’t carry arms, we don’t
kill, and we believe violence can never solve
any problem.

Nnamdi will soon disclose his current location
and IPOB will also react to the proscription of
the group by the South-East governors’
forum.
IPOB also condemned the South-East
Governors for its ban, saying they are
disloyal.

The group said its demonstrations have been
peaceful, and the ban proves that the
governors are at the forefront of the plan to
eliminate its leader Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement released by the group’s media
and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, the
group said:

We want to find out how the governors who do
not know the foundations of IPOB, would
make such a statement when they know that
IPOB had staged 297 peaceful protests and
rallies both at home and in Diaspora without
a single record of violence or crime.
With the record on ground, IPOB under Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu, is one of the most peaceful
organised freedom fighting group in the
world today.

It is dangerous that the governors who are
the chief security officers of their respective
states in the zone would decide to hand over
their people to the enemies who were out to
kill, maim and destroy because of their
selfish reasons.

We are also aware that late Chief Emeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu and General Philip Effiong
protected their people during the first
pogrom and ethnic cleansing from 1966 to
1970.

These governors and their collaborators are
in the forefront to eliminate our leader,
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other peaceful
members of IPOB. It is on record that IPOB
activities are peaceful since the inception
and nobody can prove where and how IPOB
activities became violent overnight.
The soldiers brought in to eliminate or
murder our leader and IPOB members,
including the innocent civilians across Biafra
land, are still going from house to house
picking anyone suspected to be IPOB or seen
with any Biafra insignia.

IPOB under Kanu must remain a nonviolent
group in the pursuit for Biafra freedom,
despite the high handedness meted against
IPOB members and our leader.