Radio Biafra, the controversial mouthpiece of the proscribed
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has sacked Nnamdi Kanu as the leader of the
group and also as the director of the radio service.
Radio Biafra returned to the airwaves with a 6.am to 7.am
broadcast over the weekend and the anchor of programmes on the radio channel,
Ifeoma Okoroafor, announced the shocking sack of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as IPOB
leader. She alleged that investigation by the group has revealed that Kanu who
is currently in hiding, collected £14 million and another $22 million to
purchase landed properties abroad for himself and his father.
The announcement of Kanu's sack reads:
“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 the announcer, the reasons for Kanu's sack
includes.
“Personalisation of the Biafran struggle and derailing from
the core objectives of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (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'.
The announcer named one Mazi Ezenwachukwu Sampson Okwudili
as Kanu’s replacement.
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