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.
“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.
“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.”
-Thecable
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