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Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB Top Leaders Goes Into Hiding After Terrorism Charge

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: September 17, 2017
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and top leaders of his group have reportedly gone into hiding.

This is following Friday’s declaration by the Nigerian Army that IPOB and other Pro-Biafran groups were terrorist organisations.

Sunday Punch reports that Kanu and his top lieutenants had ‘disappeared’ from his country home in Afaraukwu near Umuahia and other places he frequently visited.

His father, Eze Israel Kanu, is the traditional ruler of the town.

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Some IPOB members, who spoke on condition of anonymity explained that Kanu and others were advised to go underground following the declaration by the Army and the decision of the South-East governors to proscribe activities of pro-Biafra agitators in the region.

“We have to apply wisdom to whatever we are doing. We have realized that there is a grand conspiracy against Kanu and other top leaders of our group.

“Just imagine barely few hours after the Nigerian military declared members of IPOB and other pro-Biafran groups as terrorists, our own governors came up with their own outright ban of our activities.

“This definitely will give the soldiers and other security agencies the opportunity to arrest our leader and mount a deadly clampdown on all IPOB members. So, it is better to operate from a hideout for now,” an IPOB member said.

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When contacted on phone on Saturday, Kanu’s younger brother simply identified as Fine Boy, refused to reveal the whereabouts of his brother, adding that only the IPOB leader could disclose his hiding place.

“Only my brother can tell Nigerians where he is, I can’t. I don’t know why the Army should call IPOB a terrorist organization, it is out of their desperation to arrest Nnamdi and frustrate the Biafran struggle. We have petitioned the United Nations and the European Union.

“The world knows that IPOB is a non-violent organization, we don’t carry arms, we don’t kill, and we believe violence can never solve any problem. Nnamdi will soon disclose his current location and IPOB will also react to the proscription of the group by the South-East governors’ forum.”

The security agencies on Saturday comb South-East for Kanu, others.

It was gathered that the security agencies had been directed to arrest Kanu and other leaders of his group.

The directive to arrest the IPOB leaders was said to have been communicated to the leaders of the security agencies deployed in the region.

The security agencies that were given the directive, according to investigations, include the military, the police and the Department of State Services.

It was gathered that the government felt that it could be dangerous to leave Kanu a free man till the next adjourned date when his case would come up at an Abuja Federal High Court. His case is said to be coming up later in October.

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