Nnamdi Kanu sacked as IPOB leader, Director of Radio Biafra

The international media arm of the proscribed
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Radio Biafra,
has resumed operations.

But instead of the fiery rhetoric with which it was
associated with, the radio announced the sack of
Nnamdi Kanu, as director and leader of IPOB.

The Radio Biafra’s programme started between
6am -7am on Sunday with the lady announcer,
who gave her name as Ifeoma Okorafor, stating
that the radio was restructuring.

Then the shocking announcement that “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 Okorafor, one “Mazi Ezenwachukwu
Sampson Okwudili is Kanu’s replacement.”

She reeled out reasons why Kanu was removed to
include: “Personalisation of the Biafran struggle
and derailing from the core objectives of 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.

“Kanu threw away the original meaning of our
collective struggle for personal gain and vain
glorification. IPOB believes in democracy as a
solid base of any modern state, the rule of law,
and will always reject violence in all its
ramifications.”

Daily Independent Newspaper reports that there
was a mixture of excitement and confusion within
Nigeria security circles as a result of this new
development in IPOB as security agencies do not
know what to make of this.

The sack of Kanu is only the latest change in the
checkered history of Radio Biafra, which began as
the mouthpiece of MASSOB.