On Tuesday, Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the
federation, announced the arrest and extradition of Nnamdi
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The IPOB leader was subsequently re-arraigned before a
federal high court in Abuja for charges bordering on alleged
treason.

Binta Nyako, the presiding judge, ordered that the
Department of State Services (DSS) remand Kanu till July 26
for the continuation of trial.

In April 2017, the IPOB leader was granted bail by the court
on charges bordering on treasonable felony but later skipped
the bail.

He later left Nigeria after soldiers raided his father’s
residence in Abia state in November 2017.

During his sojourn abroad, Kanu had reportedly signed some
deals and formed alliances in a bid to achieve the Biafra
goal.

“Their problem is Nnamdi Kanu and the solution to their
problem is referendum. They gave me conditional bail to
cage me and IPOB but I refused,” he had said during a
broadcast.


THE $750,000 IPOB DEAL WITH AMERICAN FIRM

According to a report from Foreign Lobby , Kanu signed a
contract with BW Global Group, an American lobbying firm, to
help promote IPOB in a bid to achieve the secession
objective of Biafra.

The report noted that the firm is co-owned by Jeffrey Birrel
and Alan White.

The one-year deal is said to have taken effect from March 1,
2021, and cost Kanu and IPOB $750,000 — an equivalent of
over N300 million at the current Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) exchange rate of N410 to one US dollar.

“BWGG shall provide IPOB with services relating to the
promotion of human rights and democracy, and shall
otherwise act as an advocate for the indigenous people of
Biafra,” a document relating to the contract reads.

“BWGG shall provide services to the IPOB for a period of (1)
one year, commencing on the March 1, 2021, through
February 28, 2022 and becomes effective on the date of this
agreement on, which is the date of the Client’s signature of
this consulting services agreement.

“BWGG shall be paid a fee for its professional services
$750,000 for one year covering the period of March 1, 2021
through February 28, 2022.

The new agreement was said to be a replacement of a
previous deal signed with Mercury Public Affairs, another US-
based lobbying firm.

In September 2019, Kanu had reportedly signed an $85,000-
a-month deal ($1 million/year) with Mercury Public Affairs.
But the firm was said to have only disclosed $254,000 in
payments with the US Department of Justice for all of 2020.

IPOB’s ALLIANCE WITH CAMEROONIAN SEPARATIST
GROUP

Kanu had also reportedly formed an alliance with the Ambazonia Governing Council (AGovV), the separatist movement in Southern Cameroon, to exchange weapons and personnel.

The separatist group also established a security outfit named Eastern Security Council (ESN) to “halt every criminal activity
and the terrorist attack on Biafraland”.

The emergence of ESN, however, coincided with a spike in
attacks against security and government infrastructure in the
south-east.

TheCable found out that killings in the south-east tripled after the security outfit was launched — but the group denies any wrongdoing.

https://www.thecable.ng/rewind-how-nnamdi-kanu-hired-american-firm-to-help-promote-ipob-in-750k-deal

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ONIKUJE OF KUJE PRISON is back to his Palace