Biafra: I will cause civil disobedience until we get referendum – Nnamdi Kanu
Nnamdu Kanu, leader Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement has restated that he will not give up the fight to achieve Biafra
“I am more determined than ever,” Kanu told AFP yesterday.
“The aim is civil disobedience until we get a referendum (on self-determination)” it is the only way forward”.
He added that the struggle dates back to a “divine revelation” he had during a trip to Jerusalem.
Kanu insisted that the Igbo are descendents of a lost tribe of Israel, declaring that Biafra is the “promised land” and it is his mission to restore it.
Kanu, who was released on bail at the end of April, still faces trial on treason charges.
The IPOB leader had settled in London where he founded radio station, Radio Biafra in 2009.
He worked in real estate and campaigned on the airwaves at night.
Kanu, a former of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, left and formed IPOB in 2013.
Two years later at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, Kanu urged agitators to take up arms.
“We need guns and we need bullets,” he said.
The statement caught the attention of the Nigerian government and Kanu was arrested at his hotel during a visit to Nigeria in October 2015.
