I was born to restore and save Biafra – says IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Nigeria: The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently in detention says he was born to restore and save Biafra.

In a statement released by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the Independent People of Biafra IPOB, Emma Powerful, the IPOB leader said this while speaking to some of his members and supporters who recently paid him a visit at Kuje prisons in Abuja.
Kanu statement reads;

“The reason my mother gave birth to me was to restore and save Biafrans. I also promise that the Biafran race will be a cleaned up nation and all the people of Biafra will come back home, if they are living outside the country of the new nation.

On the cultural differences in the country and the level of acceptance among other communities in the country, Kanu said;

Our people will no longer wander on the road again. How can I encourage the people of Biafra to work towards the upbringing of Nigeria, when we don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food and don’t have the same culture. In fact, if we come to their land to practice our culture and religion, we will be beheaded.

On religious differences and the indiscriminate killings of members of other religion, the IPOB leader said;

Their women wear hijab, and Biafran women don’t, and on the point that our women don’t wear hijab and we don’t practice the same religion, they will see us as infidels and then, we will be beheaded. We are 100 per cent Christians. These people are Muslims who see killing as a culture.

In Biafra where we originated from, it will be hard for our people to kill a human being, because in my language a human being is called MMANDU, which means in English language the beauty of life.

On Biafra been older than Nigeria and not trying to secede but to return to status quo before the British colonialism, Kanu said;

Now, you can see it will never work, the only solution is Biafra. We are not trying to secede from Nigeria. We are older than Nigeria.

You can only talk about seceding if Nigeria is the one that colonized Biafra. But we are older than that contraption.

So we can’t secede rather we just want to go back the way we were before the British came. It is Biafra or nothing, Nigerians knows that.”