Withdraw your soldiers from our community, allow us bury our parents in peace, Kanu’s brother tells FG

February 2, 2020 | The Biafra Times 

By  Steve Oko

Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has asked the Nigerian Government to immediately withdraw soldiers deployed to  their community and redeploy them to the North East where their services are most needed.

Kanu said soldiers should  allow the family bury their late parents in peace.

He made the appeal Sunday evening following the reported  deployment of soldiers around their Afaraukwu Ibeku country home in Umuahia, Abia State.

According to him large number of heavily armed soldiers with armourd tanks are now patrolling the community.

Kanu’s parents – HRM Eze Israel Kanu, and  Lolo Sally Kanu, died in September and November 2019 respectively, and have been slated for burial on February 14.

HRH Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and Lolo Ugoeze Sally Okwu Kanu 

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They both died of heart -related diseases as a result of trauma they allegedly sustained during the September 14, 2017 military raid  of their compound according to the family.

In a phone interview with our correspondent, Prince Emmanuel cried foul over the movement of soldiers in the community which he said was creating unnecessary panic and tension among residents.

He said they were not in war with anybody to warrant the deployment of soldiers.

 Prince Emmanuel said the family only wanted to bury their late parents according to the tradition of the land.

He, therefore, called on the Federal Government to withdraw the soldiers and allow them bury their dead peacefully and “without intimidation or further provocation”.

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” Soldiers should leave us alone so we can bury our parents. When has it become a crime for one to bury his dead?

“In 2017 our compound was invaded and over 20 people killed, and because of the shock ,my parents later died . Now that we want to bury them why are soldiers here again?

“Do they want to kill more people?  There is no war in our place or anywhere in South East. Even if there is any crisis it’s the police that should handle it, not soldiers.

“I think more soldiers are needed in Sambisa forest and North East to face Boko Haram and not unarmed mourners in Afaraukwu Ibeku “.

Prince Emmanuel called on the international community as well as the United Nations to prevail on Nigeria to withdraw soldiers deployed around the community.

He specifically appealed to the United States of America Embassy and the Israeli Mission in Nigeria as well as the Amnesty International to closely  monitor developments and activities of the Nigeria security operatives around the community ahead of the burial.

He said the burial of his late parents scheduled for February 14 had  nothing to do with Biafra and should not be turned into another killing ground for innocent people.

SOURCE: WAWA NEWS

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Tension in Afaraukwu as soldiers invade IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s community

File photo: Soldiers on patrol 

Feburary 2, 2020 | The Biafra Times 

By Ugochukwu Alaribe

Umuahia - Residents of Afaraukwu Ibeku community, in Umuahia North Council of Abia State, the home town of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, scampered to safety as over 100 fierce-looking soldiers invaded the community.

The IPOB leader’s parents, Eze Okwu and Ugoeze Kanu, will be laid to rest on February 14, 2020, at Afaraukwu.

Vanguard gathered that the situation caused tension as the residents shut their shops while others fled their homes as the soldiers patrolled the area in their armoured personnel carrier.

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A resident said; The soldiers numbering over 100 in nine military vans and 2 Armored personnel carriers have been patrolling Bank road to Flo FM.

“The Soldiers have blocked the entrance street to Eze Kanu’s Palace, Afaraukwu, Umuahia with their van, walking round the community on foot. Everyone was scared, we ran away,” he said.

Another resident who simply gave his name as Abarikwu said he was on his way back from church when he got a call that soldiers had invaded the community.


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Nnamdi Kanu: Okezie Ikpeazu is a coward, criminal and congenital liar, complicit to the plot to assassinate Kanu - IPOB

IPOB Press Statement, Published on | The Biafra Times

October 12, 2018

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) find it beneath contempt that a failed governor and a stooge of the northern cabal in the person of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu will callously seek to endear himself to the traumatised Afaraukwu community by mouthing what amounts to gibberish before a rented crowd of hungry individuals as part of his efforts to get re-elected in 2019. Not only is Okezie Ikpeazu a congenital liar and coward, he is criminal in receipt of stolen goods from the palace of Eze Israel Okwu Kanu. IPOB Intelligence Unit is in receipt of incontrovertible photo and video evidence of Ikpeazu receiving items stolen from Eze Kanu’s Palace by the Nigerian military. We are waiting for commencement of election campaigns to release them for maximum impact.

Okezie Ikpeazu, Dave Umahi, Willie Obiano, Nnia Nwodo and others are the prime instigators of Operation Python Dance which they have never denied. They know where the military kept Eze Israel Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Kanu, to pretend otherwise is an exercise in futility. At the appropriate time all those responsible for the military invasion of Afaraukwu and the loss of 28 IPOB family members will be held to account. It is not a question of if but when. Feigning ignorance or knowledge of the invasion of the 14 September 2017 shows what a dubious criminal Okezie Ikpeazu is.

South East Governors Forum in collaboration with Ohaneze Ndigbo and a few others based in Lagos/Abuja, worked hand-in-hand with Fulani caliphate to plot the assassination of Nnamdi Kanu and his parents. This is a fact! Okezie Ikpeazu thinks that a few weasel words and paltry 2 Million Naira shared amongst impoverished hungry people presented to him at the Banquel Hall of Abia State government house, will eradicate the sacrilegious invasion of the home of an Igbo traditional ruler.

Teachers and other civil servants in Abia State are owed upwards of two years salary with no hope in sight of when they are likely to get paid but Okezie Ikpeazu is busy distributing money in the hope of buying the conscience of the people. Such gimmick may have worked in the past but not in this era of IPOB. Okezie Ikpeazu is a one term governor because he is a traitor to the people of Biafra in general and Abia in particular.

No amount of stomach infrastructure initiative, like this one organised for him by a certain Udochukwu Ogbonna an indigene or Isiama Afaraukwu, who is unsurprisingly an Abia civil servant- hopefully seeking to secure his unpaid salary, will save him. INEC’s world famous rigging antics will not save him either because IPOB High Command has determined that all those that had in a hand in bringing Operation Python Dance to Biafraland will pay a heavy price for their betrayal. Any person, persons or political party investing in Okezie Ikpeazu to be re-elected governor of Abia State is not only mistaken and wasting their resources but naive to the point of stupidity.

Okezie Ikpeazu cannot superintend the mass killings of Biafrans in Abia State and expect to be returned to power. Have we forgotten Amnesty International report on the massacre of civilians at National High School Aba? It was the same Okezie Ikpeazu that oversaw the cold blooded execution of those asking for their  freeeom. The household of Okezie Ikpeazu and their generations unborn will be held accountable in life and death for the atrocities Okezie Ikpeazu used Fulani soldiers to commit in our land. It will be a monumental insult and a desecration of the memory of the dear departed for Okezie Ikpeazu to return as Abia State governor in 2019, his hands are soiled with the blood of the innocent. The same fate applies to all those implicated in Operation Python Dance. Current Igbo governors are unrepentant Fulani slaves and their continued stay in power will represent a formidable obstacle on our road to freedom. They cannot return in 2019 no matter what Fulani controlled INEC does.

If Fulani soldiers under the cover of Nigerian Army can invade Biafraland, kill, torture and detain innocent people including our mothers with such impunity, then the title of Chief Security Officer of the State is lost on these quislings occupying government houses in the east. The likes of Okezie Ikpeazu and Dave Umahi exist to please the northern caliphate even it means poisoning all Igbos to death in the process. All they care about is exalted political office and unfettered access to money allocated to their state. Their time has come to an end. 14 September 2017 was the day Okezie Ikpeazu murdered sleep. Those offering what amounts to mere sycophantic value to his campaign for re-election are doing so at their own risk. IPOB and Kanu family cannot be bought with money or material, Biafra freedom is the ultimate.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Nnamdi Kanu: Don’t play politics with our father’s whereabouts, Nnamdi Kanu’s family, traditional prime minister warn Ikpeazu

Steve Oko,Umuahia, Published on | The Biafra Times

October 11, 2018

The family of the missing Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has cautioned Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu not to play politics with the whereabouts of their father and the traditional ruler of Isiama-Afaraukwu autonomous community, HRM Eze Israel Kanu.

The warning is coming on heels of a comment credited to Ikpeazu when some people from the community paid him courtesy visit at the Government House Umuahia.

Ikpeazu had reportedly told his guests that the state Government was making efforts in collaboration with other South East Governors to ensure that the monarch is re-united with his subjects soon.
He also said that contrary to misconception in some quarters, he had no hands in the military invasion of the community during the Operation Python Dance ll.

The whereabouts of Eze Kanu, his wife Lolo Sally, and son, Nnamdi Kanu has remained unknown since after the September 14, 2017 military raid on his palace that also claimed scores of IPOB members and Biafra agitators.
In a swift reaction to the Governor’s comments, Spokesman of the family and Kanu’s youngest brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu told Ikpeazu to “look for better ways of entertaining his guests and not use Kanu as a campaign slogan for his re-election bid”

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He cautioned Ikpeazu to be mindful of his utterances concerning the whereabouts of the monarch and other family members yet to be sighted since after the military raid on the palace last year.
The family Spokesman wondered why “the Governor who has not thought it wise to visit the family since one year our father, mother and brother got disappeared suddenly made their matter a campaign tool’.
He said Ikpeazu should leave the Kanu family out of his second term project, and dismissed the Governor’s comment as an afterthought.
Prince Kanu said no amount of hypocrisy would exonerate Ikpeazu and his South East counterparts from culpability over the invitation of the military for a Python Dance Operation in the zone last year.
He said “Ikpeazu should not think we can be easily deceived by hiring supporters from our community to visit him in Government House and making flowery comments about our family”.

According to him, “the prevailing hunger in the land had made it easy to recruit people to sing ones praises for peanuts”
Prince Kanu who claimed the Governor mobilized the visitors with N2 million blamed their action on hunger and poverty.

He wondered why the Governor would be promising to collaborate with his South East counterparts to help locate the missing monarch only few months to election year.
Kanu’s brother said anybody who participated in the said visit was part of the conspiracy that led to the military invasion of the community, adding that “the blood of all the victims of the raid is upon them”

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Meanwhile, the Traditional Prime Minister of the community, Chief Odoemelam Chimechefulam, has dissociated himself from the visit by some members of the community to Gov. Ikpeazu.
He said that those who visited the Governor did so in their personal capacity and never had the mandate of the community to embark on the journey.
He said that he heard that a group of people was being mobilized to visit the Governor but decided not to join them because the community was still in mournful mood following the disappearance of their Traditional Ruler, since after the military raid of his palace.

Chimechefulam said he found it strange and a grievous sin against the land to visit the Governor who is yet to identify with the community over their missing traditional ruler one year after.
He said Isiama-Afaraukwu community “is the land lord” of the Abia seat of power, and deserves Government sympathy and consolation over the ordeal.
His word: “When I heard some people mobilizing to visit the Governor I said I won’t be part of it. Why will I go to wine and dine with him when I have not seen my traditional ruler more than one year the community was invaded by the Army?
“Our community is the landlord of the Government House but the Governor has never visited us over our woes.
“We have been in pains since after the military invaded us last year. All the houses near Eze Kanu’s palace now have leaky roofs because of the army bullets that rained on them like water.

“Since then neither the Governor nor the Federal Government has visited us to know how we are faring. We are victims of the military raid.
“So, what is the essence of the visit? Those who went to see him were on their own. Don’t forget that this is a political season and individuals have the right to express themselves.”
In the same vein, the President General of the community, Chief Ikechukwu Ndubueze dismissed the visit and all that transpired in it as “PDP affair”

Ndubueze who also dissociated himself from the visit said “what happened was that members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the community went to see the Governor who is their party man”
He said they never had the authorization of the community on the visit and that “whatever they told the Governor was purely their party affair”.

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