Nnamdi Okwu Kanu the self-proclaimed leader of IPOB has been rearrested by the Nigerian Federal Government

 

By Tom Okure, Ph.D
ICMS,Inc Reports
Date: June 29, 2021

Nnamdi Kanu, the self-proclaimed leader of the Nigerian banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Mr. Kanu and his co-defendant are facing serious charges including treasonable felony. Mr Kanu appeared before a Federal High Court Justice Binta Nyako in Abuja today, wearing a hood allegedly supposed to cover his identity. All the entrances to the court were also said to have been locked during the hearing in the matter.

IPOB leader Kanu rearrested because of an international
collaborative efforts with security agencies.

Nigerians were taken by surprise today as they woke up with the news of Kanus rearrest. During the joint press briefing today Tuesday June 29, 2021 with the State Security Service (SSS) in Nigeria’s FCT Abuja, Mr. Malami revealed that the recapture of the IPOB leader happened because of an international collaborative efforts with overseas security agencies. 

Kanu has been a fugitive from Nigerian justice for about four years now. He is accused among several charges of engaging in subversive activities against the Nigerian government which includes inciting violence through television, radio and online broadcasts against the Nigerian state and institutions. Further, he is blamed of instigating violence specifically in Southeastern Nigeria that resulted in the loss of lives and property of civilians, military, paramilitary, police and destruction of civil institutions and symbols of authorities.

On September 2017, Mr Kanu fled the country after her jumped bail and the aftermath of a bloody attack on his home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State by the Nigerian army. Soon after the Nigerian government determined that he had jumped bail, it immediately obtained a court order on September 20, 2017 designating IPOB a terrorist group and baned the group. 

For background, Mr. Nnamdi Okwu Kanu is 53 years old and was born on September 25, 1967. Mr. Kanu is a dual citizen of both Nigeria and Britain. A self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) he founded in 2014, he has made himself a Biafra political activist; has generated a large indigenous ethnic following mainly of Igbos and his IPOB seeks to establish an independent state for the people of former (old) Eastern Region of Nigeria through an independent referendum. As of the publication of this report, IPOB has not issued any press statement about the arest of it's leader Kanu.  

The old Eastern Region of Nigeria which seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and declared itself as Biafra was defeated by the Nigerian military in a very bloody civil war which lasted until 1970 when Biafra surrendered to the Federal forces and the war was declared over with "No Victor, No Vanquish.”