Radio Biafra Sacks IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu As Director
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Radio Biafra that went off-the-air about three months ago, may have bounced back amidst alleged eruption of crisis within the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
This followed Sunday’s announcement that one of its Director and leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Nwanekaenyi Kanu has been dismissed and immediately replaced with Mazi Ezenwachukwu Sampson Okwudili
Kanu’s dismissal was contained in a broadcast by a lady announcer, who introduced herself as Ifeoma Okorafor, saying the radio is back on air with some restructuring by IPOB.
Okorafor further said the IPOB leader’s dismissal was arrived at after intensive and an extensive consultations among stakeholders in the Radio Biafra project.
The IPOB radio accused Kanu of abandoning the original meaning of collective struggle of members for personal gain and vain glorification.
The broadcast by Okorafor further stated that the decision to sack Kanu though painful, was in the overall interest of the organisation, given his undue personalization of the Biafran struggle and derailing from the core objectives of IPOB as a grassroots movement.
Listing other sins allegedly committed by Kanu, the broadcast by Okorafor said; “Kanu’s actions and his decisions to incite members of IPOB towards violence and avoidable confrontation with security agents, leading to the death of many innocent young people in Onitsha, Aba and Umuahia is totally unacceptable and grossly irresponsible.
“Kanu privately collected £14m and another $22m 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 for self- enrichment while pretending to be sacrificing for the Igbo cause.”
Furthermore, the broadcast stated thus; “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 immediate and unconditional release. Kanu, since his release, has never spoken about them or rallied support 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 Igbomen to kneel down and kiss his feet.
“IPOB believes in democracy as a solid base of any modern state, the rule of law, and will always reject violence in all its ramification. Kanu’s deputy, Mazi Uche Okafor Mefor also suffered the same fate with Nnamdi Kanu.”
Competent sources told Forefront that the return of Biafra Radio as IPOB’s mouthpiece to the airwaves with 6 am to 7 am broadcasting time from London on the morning of Sunday, November 12, 2017 made security agencies frenzy over the latest change and possible restructuring of the body already classified and categorized a terrorists’ organisation.
Sources within the security circle confided in our correspondent that the IPOD radio broadcast was monitored and received with clear signals and reception across the country, specifically in Lagos, Awka, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Owerri and Sokoto.
The source further said the IPOD broadcast is on 7240 khz in the 41 meter band and 11530 khz on the 25 meter band shortwave, which was heard in Nigeria on Sunday evening between 8pm and 9pm.