Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the Igbo,
especially the elite, of abandoning Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader, describing
the action as a big shame.
In a statement issued by Ikechukwu Nnaji, an activists and social
critics, and endorsed by Emma Powerful, the publicity secretary, the group said
it was the biggest shame on the Igbo race to be silent over the disappearance
of Kanu.
According to IPOB, it doesn’t matter from which perspective one
has judged the matter, as Kanu was a “bold, innocent chap who was tagged a
terrorist, was arrested, refused bail against court injunctions, later released
on disagreeable grounds, and finally kidnapped by the same government (perhaps
killed like his dog and immediate followers).”
It
claimed the Nigerian government would never have spoken of restructuring if not
for Kanu.
The group had kinder words for Federal Government “whose efforts
had been to crush Kanu from time”, than for the Igbo race for always proving to
be the greatest threat to their own progress as a people.
Only Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB said, understood that the current Nigerian
structure would never guarantee the Igbo their due. It noted that the Igbo’s
“South East is the only geopolitical zone out of the six with just five states
out of 36, 15 senatorial slots out of 109, and 43 seats out of 360 federal
constituencies.”
The group added: “We the Igbo must demand the release of Nnamdi
Kanu by the Federal Government. He represents the new and most potent Igbo
front to actualise and guarantee our stake and demand for our fair share as one
of the three major ethnic components of Nigeria.
“And if he be dead as every evidence points, then we will have to
wait another century for another of his kind to be born. Forgetting Kanu means
throwing a hundred years behind our quest for self-determination as Ndigbo.
“Nnamdi Kanu must be found. He must not be forgotten like a dead
chicken. At least, the Igbo (his own brothers) should not.
“Until then, Ndigbo remain a defeated race, shamefully complicit
in their own annihilation agenda.”
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