Quest For Biafra: No Retreat, No Surrender – Kanu

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed not to retreat from, or surrender, the struggle for an independent state of Biafra. The leader of the proscribed Biafra agitation group made the declaration while reacting to a recent statement by the former governor of Abia state and senate chief whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, in which the lawmaker claimed that he was capable of convincing Kanu to stop the Biafra campaign.

Uzor-Kalu had boasted, in a statement released in Abuja, that the IPOB leader would listen to him. According to him, “If the federal government permits me, I will go to the United Kingdom and negotiate with Nnamdi Kanu to return to Nigeria. I will convince him to drop the agitation for Biafra because our people don’t need it,” Kalu had said.

Kanu fired a riposte, in a Radio Biafra broadcast, last Wednesday evening, Mazi Kanu, warning that anybody trying to convince him to drop the idea of Biafra would be dealt with. According to him, the 2019 attack on former senate president, Ike Ekwerenmadu, in Nurenberg, Germany by IPOB members would be a child’s play to Uzor-Kalu or any other individual that would try to talk him out of the Biafra campaign.



“Anybody coming to me with the intention of convincing me to drop the idea of Biafra, I can assure you (that) what happened to Ike Ekweremadu will be a child’s play to such an individual. This is the era of saboteurs and we must be very careful.”

Kanu further warned that he had not mandated anybody to speak on his behalf over meeting with the Nigerian government, or any intermediaries, to negotiate cessation of the Biafra agitation. He added that he would meet the Nigerian government only if it is to show them the boundaries of “Biafra land and to sign the necessary documents.”



The IPOB leader also raised alarm over the activities of Fulani herdsmen in Enugu state, warning residents of the five south east zone states to be on alert. “These Fulani terrorists in uniform, in their warped thinking, were merely removing any potential threat to Fulani terrorists Miyetti Allah impending attack on Nimbo Uzo-Uwani. The same Nimbo Miyetti Allah attacked successfully four years ago with the help and encouragement of the three Fulani heads of security in Enugu state, they are poised to attack again.”

He said that “Fulani terrorists” had killed innocent young men, terrorised the Enugu state governor and the local chief of Emene into submission and were “now at liberty to enter Uzo-Uwani to commence another round of genocide.”

He expressed frustrations over the failure of prominent leaders in Enugu state to speak on the deteriorating security situation in the state. “Nnia Nwodo is from Enugu state; a few Facebook intellectual illiterates are from Enugu. Ike Ekweremadu is from Enugu. What are these people doing about this impending massacre, or are they, as usual, waiting for IPOB to defend Nimbo?”


Kanu equally reacted to the killing of a notorious militia leader, Terwase Agwaza, alias Gana by soldiers on Tuesday, describing it as an indication that Nigerian state actors could never be trusted. “Nothing good comes out from being a saboteur. Gana worked with Miyetti Allah terrorists for years. Though he is not Fulani, he helped Miyetti Allah terrorists kill and terrorise his own people, the Tiv. When the same Fulani he was serving so diligently took their Islamic conquest to his village, he then turned to a defender of his people. Only then did Fulani Aso Rock and Miyetti Allah decide to kill him.

“Nobody has ever killed a repentant Boko Haram on his way to graduation but this man willingly submitted himself to the army and they killed him for daring to work against Miyetti Allah’s terror agenda.”

He concluded that Agwaza’s killing was a lesson for every saboteur.

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