Nnamdi Kanu, the self-styled leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), spoke to his followers on the internet-based Radio Biafra for the first time since he was arrested by Nigerian security officials on 18 October 2015.  It was typical blowhard demagoguery, short on substance and must have convinced nobody apart from his fanatical followers.

Kanu went missing after the Nigerian army raided his father's home on 14 September last year.  He was meant to be on bail pending his trial for "criminal conspiracy, intimidation and membership of an illegal organisation".  He wasn't seen in public after the raid until a video and pictures of him in Israel were published online last Friday.  Radio Biafra, the station that made Kanu well known to the Nigerian public, then announced that their leader will speak today at 6pm local time.

There were so many questions to be answered.  Where was he since the army raid?  Did he escape the raid?  Why has he been silent since then?  What is he doing in Israel?  When did he arrive there?  However, the man of the hour didn't arrive on the hour.  He was perhaps fashionably late - by eight minutes.  Maybe it was technical problems at the station.  But he did say that he and his IPOB "family" are "civilised people".  Keeping to time is the civilised thing to do - and would surely set them apart from Nigeria that he wants Biafra to secede from.

He said he was back on Radio Biafra after four years to preach a "gospel of redemption".  "The Kingdom of Biafra" was "invevitable" and it was their mission to "restore or die restoring Biafra".  It was a slight concern that what Kanu wanted to restore was a "kingdom" and not a democratic state.  He didn't tell listeners who would be king in this kingdom.

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