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Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by chesterlee(m): 7:50am On May 30, 2017
Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters in the red, black and green of the Biafran flag hail him as their saviour.

Eighteen months in custody does not appear to have affected his fight against Nigeria.

"I am more determined than ever," Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, tells AFP calmly.

Kanu, who was released on bail at the end of April, still faces trial on treason charges.

But there is no question of his remaining silent as a key date approaches on Tuesday: the 50th anniversary of the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra.

The secession of the Igbo people in the southeast sparked a bloody civil war that lasted nearly three years until 1970. More than one million people died of the effects of war, famine and disease.

Kanu says his aim is "civil disobedience until we get a referendum (on self-determination)", calling it "the only way forward".

- 'Deliberate' retribution -

After the war, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria, an ethnic and religious hotch-potch of nearly 190 million people where sectarian tensions regularly flare.

But in "Igboland", the dream of independence never really disappeared, fuelled by a sense that the Nigerian government had abandoned them -- perhaps deliberately -- after the conflict.

Veterans and young supporters crowd around in turn to hear the bespectacled Kanu speak.

In the living room where he receives guests, a life-size painting covering an entire wall depicts the prodigal son in military uniform.

He variously denounces what he says are the "killings" and "rapes" of Igbos by the security forces, and President Muhammadu Buhari's "deliberate policy to impoverish the people".

Kanu, who is in his 40s, spent his childhood in Umuahia, which was the former Biafran capital, a stone's throw from the separatist forces' bunker, and was clearly no stranger to politics.

He refuses to give his exact age but as the eldest of five children, he grew up from a young age with stories from his father, who gave logistic support to the resistance.

- 'Demi-god persona' -

Unknown to most Nigerians even two years ago, Kanu had long launched virulent diatribes against Nigeria from London, where he settled after his studies and founded the pirate radio station Radio Biafra in 2009.

He worked in real estate and campaigned on the airwaves at night. For a time he was a member of another pro-independence group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

He left MASSOB and founded IPOB in 2013.

Two years later at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, Kanu crossed a line with an apparent call to take up arms. "We need guns and we need bullets," he said.

He was arrested at his hotel during a visit to Nigeria in October 2015.

Fred Anibeze, a Nigerian political scientist, called the arrest "unwarranted and uncalled for".

"He is using the Biafra struggle to garner cheap publicity for himself via broadcast from Radio Biafra, and this has been further buttressed with the demi-god persona he has been getting since his release," he told AFP.

Kanu's detention caused widespread anger among Igbos, and a series of protests calling for his release ended in bloodshed.

According to Amnesty International, Nigerian security forces killed at least 150 IPOB supporters in 2016. Abuja flatly rejects the claim.

For Don Okereke, a security analyst, Kanu "embodies aspirations of a new generation, more activist, more radical" than their elders, who fought in the war.

"He tells people just what they want to hear," he added.

- Lost tribe of Israel -

The extent of Kanu's support in the southeast of the country is difficult to gauge but his followers have virtually worshipped him since his release on bail.

Kanu does not do anything to stop the myth-making and is protected round the clock by an impressive security detail, who thoroughly search all his visitors.

Religion is ever-present in his speeches, and Kanu now wears the talit (Jewish prayer shawl) and observes the sabbath.

IPOB followers also wear the kippah (skullcap).

It all dates back to a "divine revelation" Kanu says he had during a trip to Jerusalem: the Igbo -- most of whom are Christian -- are descendents of a lost tribe of Israel, he says.

Biafra is the "promised land" and it is his mission to restore it.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4551182/Nnamdi-Kanu-new-voice-pro-Biafra-independence.html

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by mazimee(m): 7:53am On May 30, 2017
One thing that unite us together is our boldness.
Nnamdi kanu, we all are strongly behind you.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by chesterlee(m): 7:53am On May 30, 2017
Nnamdi kanu's popularity is growing massively by the day!!!

Thanks to the vegetable in London

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by kogistar: 7:54am On May 30, 2017
same site which claims buhari is dead?
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by taylor88(m): 7:56am On May 30, 2017
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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by chesterlee(m): 8:01am On May 30, 2017
As Biafrans are getting ready to remember our fallen heroes on May 30th 2017 worldwide. One of such hero and martyr is the late Bruce Mayrock. Bruce was a 20yr old Hebrew student at Columbia university, New York, who immolate himself in front of the U.N. building while protesting against the 1967-1970 Biafra genocide.

Bruce doused himself with a flammable liquid shortly and set himself on fire on the lawn outside the U.N. building. Even when two guards chased him with fire extinguisher while engulfed in flames, Bruce eluded them, whike hundreds of horrified delegates and onlookers watched. He finally fell down to his knees and the guards extinguished the fire. He was rushed to the Belleone Hospital where he died shortly after midnight of May 30th, 1969, nine hours after he set himself ablaze. His family said that Bruce worked actively to protest the war in Biafra, writing letters about the war to the president and leading government figures. He felt that people were being killed in Biafra and no one was doing anything about it.

His placard read " Peace is where there is an absence of fear of any kind.", "You must stop genocide, please save nine millions of Biafra,.

Bruce, you are our hero and Martyr, you will be remembered for ever by true biafrans. You gave up your life for people you have never met. May God continue to rest your Biafran soul AND Biafra will be a Nation, and your name will forever be immortalized.

ON BEHALF OF ALL BIAFRANS, THANK YOU AND CONTINUE TO REST WITH THE ANGELS.

Lalasticlala

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by Nobody: 8:07am On May 30, 2017
The Land of the rising Sun would surely rise.
It will only take time.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by Nobody: 8:08am On May 30, 2017
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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by hucienda: 8:15am On May 30, 2017
"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

- Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience.

Like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only works if you have unwavering followership and belief of same followers in the ideals.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by modik(m): 8:17am On May 30, 2017
chesterlee:
As Biafrans are getting ready to remember our fallen heroes on May 30th 2017 worldwide. One of such hero and martyr is the late Bruce Mayrock. Bruce was a 20yr old Hebrew student at Columbia university, New York, who immolate himself in front of the U.N. building while protesting against the 1967-1970 Biafra genocide.

Bruce doused himself with a flammable liquid shortly and set himself on fire on the lawn outside the U.N. building. Even when two guards chased him with fire extinguisher while engulfed in flames, Bruce eluded them, whike hundreds of horrified delegates and onlookers watched. He finally fell down to his knees and the guards extinguished the fire. He was rushed to the Belleone Hospital where he died shortly after midnight of May 30th, 1969, nine hours after he set himself ablaze. His family said that Bruce worked actively to protest the war in Biafra, writing letters about the war to the president and leading government figures. He felt that people were being killed in Biafra and no one was doing anything about it.

His placard read " Peace is where there is an absence of fear of any kind.", "You must stop genocide, please save nine millions of Biafra,.

Bruce, you are our hero and Martyr, you will be remembered for ever by true biafrans. You gave up your life for people you have never met. May God continue to rest your Biafran soul AND Biafra will be a Nation, and your name will forever be immortalized.

ON BEHALF OF ALL BIAFRANS, THANK YOU AND CONTINUE TO REST WITH THE ANGELS.

Lalasticlala

It is not about NK,
But all Biafrans world wide!

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by Funlord2(m): 8:21am On May 30, 2017
mazimee:
One thing that unite us together is our boldness.
Nnamdi kanu, we all are strongly behind you.


grin grin grin
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by Nobody: 8:21am On May 30, 2017
When your blood father, a king, walks behind you, be rest assured that Son is indeed the chosen one!

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by modik(m): 8:22am On May 30, 2017
Igbo enweghi Eze,

but

here comes Eze Igbo.



chesterlee:
Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters in the red, black and green of the Biafran flag hail him as their saviour.

Eighteen months in custody does not appear to have affected his fight against Nigeria.

"I am more determined than ever," Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, tells AFP calmly.

Kanu, who was released on bail at the end of April, still faces trial on treason charges.

But there is no question of his remaining silent as a key date approaches on Tuesday: the 50th anniversary of the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra.

The secession of the Igbo people in the southeast sparked a bloody civil war that lasted nearly three years until 1970. More than one million people died of the effects of war, famine and disease.

Kanu says his aim is "civil disobedience until we get a referendum (on self-determination)", calling it "the only way forward".

- 'Deliberate' retribution -

After the war, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria, an ethnic and religious hotch-potch of nearly 190 million people where sectarian tensions regularly flare.

But in "Igboland", the dream of independence never really disappeared, fuelled by a sense that the Nigerian government had abandoned them -- perhaps deliberately -- after the conflict.

Veterans and young supporters crowd around in turn to hear the bespectacled Kanu speak.

In the living room where he receives guests, a life-size painting covering an entire wall depicts the prodigal son in military uniform.

He variously denounces what he says are the "killings" and "rapes" of Igbos by the security forces, and President Muhammadu Buhari's "deliberate policy to impoverish the people".

Kanu, who is in his 40s, spent his childhood in Umuahia, which was the former Biafran capital, a stone's throw from the separatist forces' bunker, and was clearly no stranger to politics.

He refuses to give his exact age but as the eldest of five children, he grew up from a young age with stories from his father, who gave logistic support to the resistance.

- 'Demi-god persona' -

Unknown to most Nigerians even two years ago, Kanu had long launched virulent diatribes against Nigeria from London, where he settled after his studies and founded the pirate radio station Radio Biafra in 2009.

He worked in real estate and campaigned on the airwaves at night. For a time he was a member of another pro-independence group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

He left MASSOB and founded IPOB in 2013.

Two years later at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, Kanu crossed a line with an apparent call to take up arms. "We need guns and we need bullets," he said.

He was arrested at his hotel during a visit to Nigeria in October 2015.

Fred Anibeze, a Nigerian political scientist, called the arrest "unwarranted and uncalled for".

"He is using the Biafra struggle to garner cheap publicity for himself via broadcast from Radio Biafra, and this has been further buttressed with the demi-god persona he has been getting since his release," he told AFP.

Kanu's detention caused widespread anger among Igbos, and a series of protests calling for his release ended in bloodshed.

According to Amnesty International, Nigerian security forces killed at least 150 IPOB supporters in 2016. Abuja flatly rejects the claim.

For Don Okereke, a security analyst, Kanu "embodies aspirations of a new generation, more activist, more radical" than their elders, who fought in the war.

"He tells people just what they want to hear," he added.

- Lost tribe of Israel -

The extent of Kanu's support in the southeast of the country is difficult to gauge but his followers have virtually worshipped him since his release on bail.

Kanu does not do anything to stop the myth-making and is protected round the clock by an impressive security detail, who thoroughly search all his visitors.

Religion is ever-present in his speeches, and Kanu now wears the talit (Jewish prayer shawl) and observes the sabbath.

IPOB followers also wear the kippah (skullcap).

It all dates back to a "divine revelation" Kanu says he had during a trip to Jerusalem: the Igbo -- most of whom are Christian -- are descendents of a lost tribe of Israel, he says.

Biafra is the "promised land" and it is his mission to restore it.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4551182/Nnamdi-Kanu-new-voice-pro-Biafra-independence.html
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by YNWA1: 8:23am On May 30, 2017
Ok
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by mirabel001(f): 8:24am On May 30, 2017
nnamdi kanu is a hero
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by MrSegunAdewole: 8:36am On May 30, 2017
osheeeee

i love Nnamdi Kanu
i love biafra
i love oduduwa Republic
i love my slum in oshogbo
i love our brown roof

before you say anything

emi omo oodua grin
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by chesterlee(m): 8:39am On May 30, 2017
Michel de Nostradame more commonly known as Nostradamus - "The man who saw
tomorrow". He was a seer and a Jewish French Doctor who predicted over 400 years back,
that
A POWERFUL PRINCE WILL ARISE IN THE WORLD AT THE TRIGGER OF THE GUN.
HE WILL BE THE ENVY OF OTHER PRINCE ( AND THEY I.E THE OTHER PRINCE
WILL TRY TO SUBDUE HIM) BUT ALL WILL BE FAILURE.
A careful look at the trigger point of the world map brings to mind the map of Africa
which actually look like a gun and a look at the gun shape of Africa clearly show that the
trigger gun point of Africa is exactly situated at no place else but the Former Eastern
Region of Nigeria which currently comprises of South east and South South region of
Nigeria. Also Historically it is noteworthy to state that at the initial discovery Of Africa
the name given to it was actually GUN because of its close semblance to the shape of a
gun.
I know as a Political Scientist Bsc Political Science Major from the prestigious Anambra
state University my area does not cover mystical research but given the accuracy of
Nostradamus prophecy when he predicted the rise of Emperor Napoloen it have ceased to be
a mystic issue but a Political issue that must be treated as such .
Another glaring fact is the use of the word Prince by Nostradamus which implies that
whoever must emerge must be the son of a King at a casual look this looks impossible
because the days of empires and Kings are far gone
Surprising very few people are aware that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the director of Radio Biafra
is from a prestigious family His father is a Royal King from Abia State Nigeria and he is
actually the next heir to the throne a PRINCE..
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by drnoel: 8:59am On May 30, 2017
mazimee:
One thing that unite us together is our boldness.
Nnamdi kanu, we all are strongly behind you.
U alone bros, u alone
Re: Nnamdi Kanu: The New Voice Of Pro-biafra Independence DAILYMAIL UK by hammer6: 9:03am On May 30, 2017
The only thing i will change on the Biafra flag is the black, i prefer the blue on the Isreali flag.

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