- A group known as the Igbo for Nigeria Movement (INM) calls on anti-graft agencies ascertain if Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Rivers, Delta as well as Bayelsa state governors made any questionable donation to Nnamdi Kanu or any separatist group
- The anti-Biafra group describes the Biafra Republic as a fantasy of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu
- INM queries why deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has never pushed for fiscal federalism the various times he presided over the amendment of the constitution.
A group which calls itself the Igbo for Nigeria Movement, (INM) has demanded for the immediate probe of deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and other Igbo elites named as alleged sponsors of the secessionist group, Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu.
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The anti-Bifara group, made the demand in reaction to a claim by a group, Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) and Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) that some top Igbo elites in the south east were sponsors of the Biafra agitators.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that the Intersociety and SBCHROs claimed that deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state, and former governor of Anambra, Peter Obi and others were part of those funding the Biafra agitators.
Speaking on the backdrop of the earlier revelation, the national leader of (INM), Mazi Ifeanyi Igwe, in a statement on Saturday, June 3, called on anti-graft agencies to immediately ascertain if Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Rivers, Delta as well as Bayelsa state governors made any questionable donation to Nnamdi Kanu or any separatist terrorist group, Daily Times reports.
The group said it had to raise the alarm because of the far reaching implication of the recent revelation.
Read part of the statement from the group below:
"The plank of the Igbo agitation is about the neglect and marginalization of the south-east but it appears we have never correctly situated the problem.
“We are raising this alarm because of the far reaching implication of this recent revelation. The plank of the Igbo agitation is about the neglect and marginalization of the south-east but it appears we have never correctly situated the problem.
“The five south-east states are not governed by Hausa-Fulani or Yoruba, they have been governed by our own blood since the return to civil rule in 1999. What this recent development is telling us is that the governors have been doling out their states’ money to Biafra agitators under different covers.
“For one, we are worried that this overbearing attitude of IPOB, MASSOB, Intersociety and SBCHROs could push other ethnic nationals to a point when they will ask for Igbo states to go their way knowing fully well that a Biafra Republic is the fantasy of its disturbed leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
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“He has proven he does not have the capacity and orientation to obey the law; if Nnamdi Kanu cannot obey the law and comply with his bail condition those following him should know that he will only obey his own laws when he becomes the first President of his phantom republic. This much has been confirmed with adoption of the title of “Supreme Leader”.
“We further want Kanu, IPOB, MASSOB, Intersociety and others to know that we are not willing to begin to apply for visas to continue living in places that millions of us know as home. We are facing the reality of our limited landmass that would immediately spell trouble on more than one front. Same way we don’t want to sell our properties in other parts of Nigeria at giveaway prices.
“Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been named as a patron of separatists. He was placed on the same level as the IPOB leader. We want to ask why he never pushed for fiscal federalism the various times he has presided over the amendment of the constitution.
“Peter Obi, former Anambra state governor, is being hailed as a hero yet no one is asking why he did not turn his state into Nigeria’s Dubai in the eight years he held office as governor. Peter Obi is being commended for being the patron of a group that is pressuring youths to embark on suic*de mission; no one is asking him what he will do with his investment in Abuja, Lagos and across Nigeria if his foot soldiers break the country up.”
In the video below, NAIJ.com asks some Biafra supporters if they think the release of Nnamdi Kanu will help ensure the actualization of Biafra?
