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enemybulldozer:
Is like you have comprehension problem, what has what you commented got to do with the question I asked?? We want biafra because zoogeria is just not working and you people are pained and frustrated over it why??

And that's why I said you are pained cos we won't give you Biafra

Go look for your own leader and leave our "jobless" leader for us; time will tell.

Richy4:
Are u sure? because what i saw was
Occupation: Activist, Radio Director and freedom fighter..

Maybe you should check the question the op asked very well . The question is what was his occupation before he started his Biafra agitation. That is his means of survival and what he does for a living before he started his new occupation.

dudebuck:
he was a realty agent.

You meant to say nairabet agent?
Then why did he quit, that was a profitable and laudable Occupation. His present Occupation is worse.

guterMann:
Op do you sleep,eat and drink Biafra?

Biafra is becoming an obsession for some people,if they do not take time it will become a mental condition called 'biaframenia'.

Op if you do not take time you will spend most of your productive years discussing issues that do not involve you.

What was Tinubu's occupation before he became a politician?

Buhari got a 'loan' of 25million naira to purchase presidential nomination form,and spent more than 1.3 billion naira on campaign for the last election,where did the 1.3 billion naira come from?

Fashola as a state governor spent 78 million naira on website,did the website contain names of those going to heaven?

Buhari budgeted 3.87 billion naira for aso rock clinic,and still went abroad for treatment,where is the money?

Misplaced prioroties

Answer the damn question and stop foaming in your mouth

So a jobless 40 year old man still dependent on his wealthy parents has scammed millions of Igbos into contributing for his daily upkeep.

All I can say is that something pushed him into agitation,
but not definitely his joblessness but the concern for his people hope u can find someone concerned about you as he does for his people. That is what matters now!!!

kayzat:
Maybe you should check the question the op asked very well . The question is what was his occupation before he started his Biafra agitation. That is his means of survival and what he does for a living before he started his new occupation.

ritababe:
Jesus is not a carpenter rather his father is. he is always the Messiah right from birth.

One simple question.


What did he do from age 0-30?
I'm no preacher but please read mark 6:3 .

They referred to Jesus as a mere carpenter and so he made the statement about a prophet not being recognised in his own town..


Now I'm no preacher, but i sure as hell no how to read and understand.

Haha..so Jesus could be whipped and spat at and slapped but he couldn't be a carpenter??

Dmec:
Before Micheal Jackson became a musician, what was his occupation?
Before Buhari became a soldier, what was his occupation?
Before Obasanjo became a farmer and a soldier, what was his occupation?

Before Awolowo became Yoruba leader, what was his occupation?

MultiCEO1:
Escape route and gullible you say? for telling the truth about the economic emasculation and political ostracisation of NDI-IGBO by the Hausa/Fulani in consonance with our southern Yoruba brethren in furtherance of the agenda to reduce Igbos to minority? You may not be more educated than me nor more economically comfortable. To reason us gullible is folly and a calculated attempt to deny the glaring truth. Do not because this is a faceless forum throw jabs for throwing jabs sake. If you have nothing useful to say other than to cast aspersion on a people's intellectual worth, then shut up.

What stup.id and useless truth. Were you and your biafrau.d jesus blind,deaf or just being plain daft when jonathan was in power that you all could not clamour for your phantom biafrau.d. You did not remember economic emasculation and the fact that you were being ostracised when Jonnathan was in power. You did not remember that you were being marginalised. You all were foolishly comfortable with Jonathan even though he did nothing to better your miserable lives. Jonathan was the best thing to happen to you ipods simply because he isn't a Muslim and not an afonja or abo.ki. You were all so comfortable with him because he claimed to be ebele and you all cheered him and ignored the fact that he did not develop your region because of your emotional stupidi.ty. But because a Fulani man is power and because of your senseless bitterness for every other tribe and muslims, you suddenly wake up to remember that you are being marginalised and you think others are as daft as you are.

People can see through your mischievousness. The only genuine reason you are shouting biafrau.d is because Jonathan lost and you ipods are envious, bitter set of evil homo sapiens. You have no intellectual worth. Your heart and brain is only filled with envy, bitterness and evil. Go phuck yourself.

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Delary:
All I can say is that something pushed him into agitation,
but not definitely his joblessness but the concern for his people hope u can find someone concerned about you as he does for his people. That is what matters now!!!

All the gibberish above still never answer the question Sir. I am filled with the genuine love and care I have from my FaF.

ogawisdom:
Enugu

When Kanu is from Abia state?

Ijaya123:
When Kanu is from Abia state?

It doesn't matter ojukwu named Enugu capital though he was from Anambra

luluman:
And that's why I said you are pained cos we won't give you Biafra

Who are the 'we' that won't give us biafra?? Na so your painment reach??

Know2020:
Afonjas at it again,. What was the occupation of Jesus before he became a messaih?

Later you guys would say you're Christians. These nominal Christians that call themselves Christian by mouth. This issue was explicitly stated in the Bible as thus: Mark 6:1-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

"Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?”

This your comment is tantamount to blasphemy for you linking Kanu issue to spiritual work.

Now let me answer your question. Jesus Christ was a carpenter before he had a call to save the world as stated above in Mark 6:1-3.
You guys are too terrible and pathetic to defend Kanu with wrong language.

bilazego:
Before Awolowo became Yoruba leader, what was his occupation?

A very sound and an international lawyer.




What was Kanu's occupation before Biafra ?

kayzat:
Maybe you should check the question the op asked very well . The question is what was his occupation before he started his Biafra agitation. That is his means of survival and what he does for a living before he started his new occupation.

The answer was still there for u. he was a radio director..

kayzat:
A very sound and an international lawyer.





What was Kanu's occupation before Biafra ?

A very sound political economist. What were you before becoming a nairaland warrior?

Sagay212:
Don't mind the animals. Why didn't they shout biafrau.d when Jonathan was in power? The idio.ts did not protest for good roads and all during Jonathan's era. They were just praising him out of emotional and tribal stupidity. Now that Jonathan lost, they remembered that they are bein marginalised and started chanting biafrau.d or death. Death is what all you ipods will get instead of biafrau.d

You said nothing but the truth, all this biafra nonsense is pure politics.

[quote author=enemybulldozer post=59171573]Who are the 'we' that won't give us biafra?? Na so your painment reach??[/quoteIf not why do you throw insult at other tribes & Nigerians generally?]Better kneel down & start begging.

ogawisdom:
It doesn't matter ojukwu named Enugu capital though he was from Anambra

Has Kanu named the capital? It could be Benue state, you can never tell.

nobody has answered my question, what was this guys occupation before ipob and Biafra.

rooftech:
Before Kanu started this IPOB and Biafra thing, what was his occupation?

no insults needed!

He was an unremarkable Peckamite

From a council flat in Peckham to a country home in Umuahia, Nnamdi Kanu owes his rise to prominence to constant hate speech, an adulterated version of Judaism and the help of the Nigerian Government.

Among the Igbo, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is respected for many reasons. He is seen by most as the father of the Igbo nation, the man who fought to lead them out of a failing experiment and into a nation of their own, what would become the ill-fated Republic of Biafra.

For the few surviving soldiers who fought under his hand in the war that followed, he was a father and a leader.

For the generation that came after, those who saw him in documentaries and read of him in books, he is the symbol of lost values, a throwback to what the ideal Igbo man should be: strong, informed, industrious, fearless.

Perhaps more than anything, Ojukwu’s defiance is what has made him a deity of sorts among his people.

When he declared the Republic of Biafra, Eastern Nigeria was in the disadvantage in population, finance, military power and everything that would matter in the months to come.

Ojukwu inspects Biafran soldiers during the civil war (Archive)
Looking back now, 50 years later, Ojukwu was well aware that the odds were not in his favor, but it is clear that the decision was made in spite of the circumstances, not because of them.

It was in an attempt to draw from this sentiment that a certain London-based radio broadcaster from Abia re-created Radio Biafra and began a campaign to whip up the undead desire for secession.

Nnamdi Kanu was born ‘Nwannekaenyi “Nnamdi” Kenny Okwu Kanu in Isiama Afara, a town in the area of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State. The exact date of his birth is not public knowledge, most claims put it at some time in 1970.

He attended Liberty Avenue Primary School, Umuahiabefore stepping up to the town’s Government Secondary School to continue his education.

Whenever there is a conversation about most of the world’s most iconic rebel leaders, it is easy to see their influences as well as the formative steps; Castro’s first speech, Kagame’s first battle, the baby steps that helped them grow into the roles that they assumed in later years.

Kanu spent his formative years in the Igbo hinterland; by default, he must have been exposed to a more emotionally-influenced interpretation of the war, and the circumstances that surrounded it, from older soldiers and superiors.

Beyond that, there is enough to suggest that he was born close to the nucleus of the war, both in location and ideology.

His father, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, an Igbo chief, conveyed much-needed aid to soldiers and civilians during the civil war. Not far from the Kanu family home is what is left of what used to be headquarters of the Biafran army, where his family claims Ojukwu once spent a couple of nights.

Kanu was also born at a time when the war was a very recent memory and like many of his peers, the perspective he was afforded would have been fresh and relatively untouched by time.

Kanu would go on to study at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka after secondary school, but after a series of strikes, he crossed the seas to London where he claims he finished his tertiary education.

There is no information on what university he attended or what course he studied.

According to The Telegraph, he made his home in Sandlings Close, Peckham, an area in London that is also known as‘Little Lagos’ for the large number of Nigerians who live there.

The self-proclaimed leader of Biafra holds a British passport that guarantees his entry into the United Kingdom at any point that he wishes.

It is not clear how Kanu spent most of his time in London, but what we do know is that it was while he was here that he first became involved in the fight for Biafra.

This is where things get interesting.

There are reports that he joined the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the major face of Biafra at the time and became a favorite of its leader, Ralph Uwazurike.

At the time, Uwazurike was a marked man in the face of the Obasanjo administration. After several ‘excursions’ with his newest friends, the Department of State Services (DSS), starting in 2003, he was aware that he could only find success with a new approach.

That new approach was Radio Biafra.

Radio Biafra has its origins as a pirate radio station that broadcast propaganda during the civil war from a studio mounted on a jeep; a measure that the war and hovering warplanes made necessary.

Uwazuruike’s brainchild was intended for a similar purpose; a medium of spreading the message and ideals of the secessionist country to Igbo people and apologists across the world.

The station was to broadcast from a location outside Nigeria that the federal government would have no control over; because of Kanu’s residence in London, his eloquence and his relationship with MASSOB’s leader, he seemed the obvious choice for the role.

But Kanu had other ideas, in the weeks that followed, he took charge of Radio Biafra and from his council flat in Peckham, went rogue on MASSOB.

The year was 2009.

This decision would also have implications when he, alongside other disgruntled members of MASSOB formed a splinter group, what we now know as IPOB, short for the Indigenous People of Biafra.

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History has proved that it is near impossible to instigate widespread rebellion or upheaval without some sort of propaganda machine or media. In Nazi Germany, radio was the tool of choice for Hitler and Goebbels and Kanu put it to similar use.

Kanu used Radio Biafra to spread a deeply sectarian and militant message, as he put it “… Biafra or Death“, often referring to Nigeria as a ‘zoo’ that was destined to go up in flames.

In a video that has since gone viral on social media, he said of spiritual leaders from the South-West’s Yoruba tribe, “It’s always Yoruba people, head of Pentecostal, head of Catholic, head of Anglican. Hausas are killing us, Yorubas are sucking our blood”.

“If you’re attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself”, he continued. “Anybody attending a pentecostal church with a Yoruba pastor is an idiot, a complete fool, an slowpoke. They are worse than Boko Haram. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are not fit to be a human being”.

These rants on Radio Biafra sparked a new conversation among its listeners; one where violence was often mentioned and war was an inevitable means to the desired end.

Among the Igbos, the desire for separation may have become understated to a large degree in the years that followed the war, but like all ideas that have gained a romantic appeal, it has always been a constant.

As such, pro-Biafra rhetoric is not a strange concept, either to the Igbo or Nigerians of other tribes.

What set Kanu apart and grabbed attention in those early years is also the reason why among more nuanced spectators, he is not taken seriously.

Unlike other pro-Biafra groups, Kanu has made little attempt to appeal to reason in achieving his goals.

His version of the struggle for Biafra has been defined by an excessively crude and one dimensional method.

While the most prominent of these groups, MASSOB believes that Biafra can be achieved by negotiation and its detailed 25-step plan, Kanu, on the other hand, believes that the only solution is war, and every other Nigerian is the enemy.

On 19 October 2015, Ralph Uwazuruike cleared the air about Kanu’s membership, disclosing that he does not belong to the movement and was sacked for indiscipline and for inciting violence among members.

Broadcasting in over 100 countries around the world, Radio Biafra had such massive reach that it spread quickly, its nightly broadcasts heard at home in Nigeria and by supporters in far-flung places like Australia.

In hindsight, it would appear the most pivotal tool in Kanu’s rise, even if that success came with its own thorns.

In 2014, the station’s existence became public knowledge and in the months before the presidential elections, Nigeria’s primary broadcasting agencies tried to pull down its transmission, with little success.

Arrests were made in 2015; three members of IPOB, David Nwawusi, Benjamin Madubugwu and Chidiebere Onwudiwe were detained at various times during the year for connecting Radio Biafra transmitters to Ericsson masts in eastern states.

More than a decade after he left the country, Radio Biafra put Nnamdi Kanu in the national conversation, but only to a degree.

At the height of the station’s popularity, Kanu was little more than a faceless monster, a largely unknown entity. While his message had found willing listeners, many agreed that he would have to leave London for Nigeria to be taken seriously.

Yet, absurdly, even after his return, it is this air of mystery cultivated over time, that has created an image that is seen as untouchable by most of his followers.

Nnamdi Kanu is a walking, breathing conundrum.

Where the integrity of his peers has come under question at one point or the other, he has branded himself as the outlier.

He portrays himself as the quintessential Igbo man, first and above anything else. In his tirades, he preaches that the Igbo are a subset of the jewish people and identifies as a Jew, referring to the regular idea of the Christian God as a sham, like the rest of Nigeria.

In place of this, he says the Igbo will practice Judaism in the new country and offers obeisance to a new god of Biafra, Chukwu Okike Abhiama.

When he makes public appearances, it is full regalia, with a Jewish cap, a handfan with the rising sun of the Biafran flag printed on it, and a Jewish prayer shawl; often appearing like something between a Jewish priest with an apprentice stylist and a hippy Igbo traditional ruler.

His appearance is no mistake; Kanu makes concerted efforts to keep it up, enhancing it as much as the circumstances allow.

When he was released from jail in April 2017, he wasted no time in visiting Enugu to ‘pray’ at the Cenotaph erected in memory of the soldiers who lost their lives in the civil war.

“Whenever Nnamdi Kanu enters Biafraland, he would first go to Hill Top Ngwo to pray at the Cenotaph before proceeding to his home to see his parents and his people”, a source told Nigerian newspaper, Daily Post. “He has paid his customary homage to the memory of our fallen heroes”.

It is here that our failure to properly examine the history and educate ourselves on the Biafran war has played straight into his lap.

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His core audience is a new generation that only saw the war in books and stories and he is able to sell them his own idea of the country of their dreams, re-imagined to suit his inclinations.

For them, Nnamdi Kanu is the new Biafra in flesh.

It is no mistake that this pristine image has amassed followers in the tens and hundreds of thousands, young men who in recent months have begun to refer to him as ‘our father’, ‘the leader of Biafra’.

An IPOB press release from 2015 even goes further to refer to him as ‘Prophet Nnamdi Kanu’

This image is often re-enforced by his closest friends and family members.

“My brother was singled out by God for this mission” Kanu’s brother and fellow Biafra agitator, Prince Kanu told the Telegraph in January. When he was further prodded, he claimed his brother was led by a vision he had in 2006 in Croydon, a fair distance from Nigeria and Igbo land, if we are to put it lightly.

The success of this ‘re-branding’ has reduced the pro-Biafra struggle into a personality cult of sorts, with reports of supporters kneeling down before him and kissing his feet upon his release from detention.

In reality, what Kanu has created is an illusion; a representation of the fallacious history that he invokes and the promise of the future he seems so willing to fight for.

It is an image that is as convenient as it is effective.

But for all that Nnamdi Kanu has done to put himself in the frontlines of the struggle for Biafra, no-one has done more to help his cause than the Nigerian government.


Nnamdi Kanu’s parents; Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his mother is Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu, at the family’s country home in Isiama Afara, Abia. (Tom Saatar / Telegraph)
While Radio Biafra put him in the list of pro-biafra agitators, a vast majority of the people he hoped to lead still viewed his message at arms’ length, with a certain degree of skepticism.

What they said was pretty simple; here was a man, calling on them to defend themselves and their sovereignty and prepare for war with the rest of Nigeria, yet he was miles away in a flat in London, speaking into a microphone from an undisclosed location.

It only made sense that whoever sought to lead them would lead from the front.

In the final months of 2015, Kanu decided to pay a visit to Nigeria, taking up temporary residence in Lagos’ Golden Tulip Hotel. Barely days after, he was nowhere to be found.

On October 18, 2015, reports made the rounds that Kanu had been arrested by the dreaded Department of State Services.

He told his lawyers that he had been held in secret for four days.

In the weeks that followed, the IPOB leader was charged with treasonable felony for a speech he delivered at the World Igbo Congress in 2015 where he asked the bewildered audience for ‘guns and bullets’ to fight the war for Biafra. Alonside him were the three IPOB members arrested for planting Radio Biafra transmission equipment early in that year.

Political analyst Cheta Nwanze describes his arrest as “a mistake because it played into his hands”.

As Nwanze told the BBC in May, “When the 2015 election happened, there was a slowdown in the popularity of his radio station and that’s when he decided to come to Nigeria to get arrested”

Nnamdi Kanu had spent months accusing the government of a conspiracy against the Igbo people and moonlighting as the patron saint of information and freedom from oppression; if his supporters suspected that his ‘truth’ was a threat to the government, his arrest gave credence and credibility to those claims.

Even after the courts ruled that he should be released in November 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari’s federal government pulled a rabbit out of the hat, and ensured that he was re-arrested and held again. The DSS presented a court order that gave it license to keep him custody for an extra three months for ‘questioning’.

As one commentator put it, this authoritarian approach inspired the feeling that “perhaps, this guy is not totally wrong”

Kanu would spend go on to spend months in and out of Kuje Prisons, often falling victim to the crippling judicial system and the DSS’ underhanded tactics to hold him for as long as possible...

Read more: http://sitippe.com/2017/07/31/peckham-umuahia-nnamdi-kanu-became-new-face-biafra/

Ijaya123:
Has Kanu named the capital? It could be Benue state, you can never tell.

Benue ke

Ok ooo until Biafra is created sha

[quote author=luluman post=59171853][/quote]We the great biafrans should kneel down and beg a*imals?? You're joking right??

Know2020:
Afonjas at it again,. What was the occupation of Jesus before he became a messaih?

He was a carpenter. BTW I tot u guys are jews, why asking zoogerians this questions

This is a very interesting question and it no doubt has shed light on the inner workings of propaganda. I find it appalling that from the comments I have read none of his followers even know or knew what he was doing before he started his futile attempt at Biafra. This implies that his followers have been following him blindly and foolishly. Just read their replies and they can't even muster an intelligent answer. It amuses mr that just a simple question demystifies the fraudulent nature of the so called saviour. My brothers please open your eyes.

guterMann:
Op do you sleep,eat and drink Biafra?

Biafra is becoming an obsession for some people,if they do not take time it will become a mental condition called 'biaframenia'.

Op if you do not take time you will spend most of your productive years discussing issues that do not involve you.

What was Tinubu's occupation before he became a politician?

Buhari got a 'loan' of 25million naira to purchase presidential nomination form,and spent more than 1.3 billion naira on campaign for the last election,where did the 1.3 billion naira come from?

Fashola as a state governor spent 78 million naira on website,did the website contain names of those going to heaven?

Buhari budgeted 3.87 billion naira for aso rock clinic,and still went abroad for treatment,where is the money?

Misplaced prioroties

No one, me anyway, bother to read your babble. Just answer the question posed by the OP: Before Biafra, what was Nnamdi Kanu's job?

TundeHashim:
obviously, it's not a misplaced priorities. Tinubu was an Executive Director at Mobil Oil before he resigned his appointment to contest the Lagos west senatorial district. He was stinking Okay before he took up a political job. So we could say he has a good intent. With regards to buhari, it is trite to reiterate that he was an accomplished Soldier who became the head of state and a one time chairman of PTF. Fashola on the other hand was an accomplished Lawyer who had bagged his Senior Advocate title before taking up the CoS to Tinubu. All these people were accomplished in their chosen field before joining politics. But what the f*ck is kanu before the struggle? If we know he's unemployed, is it not safe if we agree that he uses donations by his kinsmen to feed himself and enjoy a lush comfortable life style?

You are comparing all these old men with a boy of 1972.
Did you expect kanu to start his career as an oil company executive director? Most people of his age in Nigeria are still unemployed or carrying their CV from one office to another.

For him to be able to single handedly start a radio station in Uk is an achievement. Tinubu that you mentioned, when he was in the US, he was working in a gas station and going to night school in a community college.

Must he work in an office? Take a look at very successful people, how many of them have regular office job? That is the difference between the elites and the common people.
While the common man sends his children to read medicine in school, the high upper class send their children to read History , Art or Sociology. Why?

Ask yourself why Prince William and his brother do not have regular jobs or company.
Poverty like they say, is a thing of the mind. That is why ordinary, most people prefer regular jobs.

A bunch of illerate distrunglel .

A bunch of illerate distrungle elements leading idiot [b][/b]