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Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by mart2k(m): 1:34pm On Nov 25, 2015
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A Conservative minister has said that British consular officials will visit controversial Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu, whose arrest in October has led to protests in London and Nigeria, after a question from the joint Nigerian-British activist’s constituency MP, Harriet Harman.
 
James Duddridge, Minister for Africa and the Caribbean, confirmed that Kanu, who is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) had been visited in Nigeria by members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office but that he did not ask for British consular assistance.
 
Duddridge said in his letter: “Kanu is a dual Nigerian/British national. In cases involving dual nationals in their country of other nationality we do not usually provide consular assistance unless we judge an individual to be particular vulnerable.
 
“Following concerns raised by friends of Mr. Kanu to the Foreign and Commonwealth office, including about his well-being and ongoing medical condition, we judged it appropriate in this instance to offer assistance.
 
“The Nigerian Authorities granted access to our consular team to visit Mr Kanu on 3 November 2015 where he is being detained in Abuja. Mr Kanu has confirmed to us that he has access to a lawyer and that he does not require the British government to make any further representations to the Nigerian Authorities on his behalf. We do, however, intend to make a further consular visit to check on his well-being.”
Kanu was arrested by the Nigeria state service (DSS) on charges of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to an unlawful society. He pleaded not guilty. Ipob and other pro-Biafran movements call for the independence of territories that constituted the Biafran Republic, established in 1967 and re-annexed by Nigeria in 1970, following a civil war that claimed between one and three million lives.
On 23 November, Kanu attended a hearing at the Abuja Magistrates Court and his trial was adjourned to 1 December. Kanu’s lawyer, Vincent Obetta, said the DSS had been authorised by the court to further detain his client to “conclude what they said was an investigation of terrorism and terrorism financing”.
 
Kanu’s arrests sparked protests in Nigeria and other countries with pro-Biafrans demanding the immediate release of their leader.
 
Credit : IbTimes.co.uk

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by Nobody: 1:34pm On Nov 25, 2015
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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by NuellettY: 2:28pm On Nov 25, 2015
Is the British helping matters in this regard?
If no, let them stay in their country and die in peace
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by mart2k(m): 4:30pm On Nov 25, 2015
NuellettY:
Is the British helping matters in this regard?
If no, let them stay in their country and die in peace
they only want to know if he is briton or nigerian
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by azzima(m): 5:13pm On Nov 25, 2015
Someone agitating for an independent country has dual nationality What a convenient farce! To the fools that's comparing this "amateur " activist to the great activists like Mandela, Indira gandhi etc, did ANY of the great activists have the "convenience " of pledging allegiance to a "colonial" country(or any country for that matter )while agitating for their own SOVEREIGNTY? ??. How can you carry TWO passports and simultaneously agitate for a republic?? EVEN Ojukwu wasn't a dual citizen of any nation, Ken saro wiwa wasn't, Fela wasn't, Gani Fawehinmi wasn't a dual citizen. This albino is leading many to their end while he will end up fleeing back to the UK.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by Rose2014: 5:20pm On Nov 25, 2015
azzima:
Someone agitating for an independent country has dual nationality What a convenient farce! To the fools that's comparing this "amateur " activist to the great activists like Mandela, Indira gandhi etc, did ANY of the great activists have the "convenience " of pledging allegiance to a "colonial" country(or any country for that matter )while agitating for their own SOVEREIGNTY? ??. How can you carry TWO passports and simultaneously agitate for a republic?? EVEN Ojukwu wasn't a dual citizen of any nation, Ken saro wiwa wasn't, Fela wasn't, Gani Fawehinmi wasn't a dual citizen. This albino is leading many to their end while he will end up fleeing back to the UK.

You sound like someone that has been denied visa three times cheesy if not, why is it paining you so much that he's a British citizen too.
Now are u aware that he used to accuse both countries as being unfair to Biafrans? But Britain left him alone, he's even operating from there.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by azzima(m): 7:16am On Nov 26, 2015
Rose2014:


You sound like someone that has been denied visa three times cheesy if not, why is it paining you so much that he's a British citizen too.
Now are u aware that he used to accuse both countries as being unfair to Biafrans? But Britain left him alone, he's even operating from there.

why didn't he leave Britain and settle in Biafra then?You complain about UK and Nigeria but yet you don't love in Biafra??Hypocrisy of the highest order. By the way,I don't need a visa.I am a confirmed US /Nigeria citizen . And I am not agitating for any other republic.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by SegunAdewole: 7:33am On Nov 26, 2015
Mr azzima my deportee yoruba brother, come hold hands with me lets build odualand. We yorubas must get out of nigeria. I'm tired of the romanis.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by Nobody: 7:37am On Nov 26, 2015
mart2k:


 
Duddridge said in his letter: “Kanu is a dual Nigerian/British national.
 
Mr Kanu has confirmed to us that he has access to a lawyer and that he does not require the British government to make any further representations to the Nigerian Authorities on his behalf.
 


Credit : IbTimes.co.uk

shocked shocked shocked NNAMDI Kanu is a DON.... the guy ready for Nigeria, I am sure its not just by mouth.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by 0excel0: 7:46am On Nov 26, 2015
azzima:
why didn't he leave Britain and settle in Biafra then?You complain about UK and Nigeria but yet you don't love in Biafra??Hypocrisy of the highest order. By the way,I don't need a visa.I am a confirmed US /Nigeria citizen . And I am not agitating for any other republic.
I don't need to ask about your ethnicity,its obvious ur a Yoruba,very treacherous set of people that can be easliy liken to a snake,you knew that radio Biafra can't last a day in nigeria,you knew that nnamdi would have been dead by now if not becouse he is a British citizen yet your reasoning like an idiot,soon I pray we in the east will have nothing in common with u guys for ever.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by Nobody: 7:50am On Nov 26, 2015
azzima:
Someone agitating for an independent country has dual nationality What a convenient farce! To the fools that's comparing this "amateur " activist to the great activists like Mandela, Indira gandhi etc, did ANY of the great activists have the "convenience " of pledging allegiance to a "colonial" country(or any country for that matter )while agitating for their own SOVEREIGNTY? ??. How can you carry TWO passports and simultaneously agitate for a republic?? EVEN Ojukwu wasn't a dual citizen of any nation, Ken saro wiwa wasn't, Fela wasn't, Gani Fawehinmi wasn't a dual citizen. This albino is leading many to their end while he will end up fleeing back to the UK.

Mahatma Gandhi was both a British and Indian citizen, infact he was also a South African citizen granted to him by the british just to keep him in SA so hw will not disturb them.... His scenerio is almost that of NNAMDI kanu

Mahatma Gandhi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (/ˈɡɑːndi, ˈɡæn-/;[2] Hindustani: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"wink[3]—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,[4]—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father",[5] "papa"[5][6]) in India.

Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.

Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. Gandhi attempted to practise nonviolence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and social protest.

Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India.[7] Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire[7] was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.[8] As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to promote religious harmony. The last of these, undertaken on 12 January 1948 at age 78,[9] also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.[9] Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating.[9][10] Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest at point-blank range.[10]

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by abouzaid: 8:34am On Nov 26, 2015
kaycid77:


Mahatma Gandhi was both a British and Indian citizen, infact he was also a South African citizen granted to him by the british just to keep him in SA so hw will not disturb them.... His scenerio is almost that of NNAMDI kanu

Mahatma Gandhi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (/ˈɡɑːndi, ˈɡæn-/;[2] Hindustani: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"wink[3]—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,[4]—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father",[5] "papa"[5][6]) in India.

Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.

Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. Gandhi attempted to practise nonviolence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and social protest.

Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India.[7] Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire[7] was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.[8] As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to promote religious harmony. The last of these, undertaken on 12 January 1948 at age 78,[9] also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.[9] Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating.[9][10] Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest at point-blank range.[10]
God bless you my brother.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by Nobody: 9:27am On Nov 26, 2015
abouzaid:
God bless you my brother.


Yoruba are evil. Avoid them on all social media. Anyone who insults Nnamdi Kanu is indirectly insulting all Biafrans. Yoruba hate Kanu because he speaks the truth.

Yoruba hate and fear people like Kanu.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: British Consular Officials To Visit Detained Biafran Leader In abu by hakeem4(m): 9:27am On Nov 26, 2015
Kanu !!!!

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