Nnamdi kanu the director of
radio biafra was reportedly arrested by nigeria secret police (dss) on saturday.
Kanu, who is also assumed to
be the director of biafra television and the leader of the indigenous people of
biafra (ipob), was said to have been arrested in lagos , yesterday.
Uche mefor the deputy
director of radio biafra, with other members of the group, in a marathon
broadcast on the biafra radio, alleged that kanu was arrested in lagos by the security operatives, as he flew into nigeria from his base in the uk .
The group in a tweet on
sunday, via its twitter handle, confirmed the arrest.
In a statement published on
its website, the separatist movement also confirmed that their director has
been arrested in lagos by the nigerian authorities, noting that it (nigeria ) has through this arrest played into the grand
strategy of biafrans.
See statement here:
However, at the time of
filing this report, vanguard was yet to independently confirm the arrest, even
as the dss authorities were yet to publicly make any statement about the
arrest.
Ipob is a separatist movement
that call for the independence of nigeria’s former eastern region – proclaimed
the republic of biafra in 1967 and reannexed to Nigeria three years later,
following a civil war that claimed between one and three million lives.
Source: vanguard
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