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Nnamdi Kanu, Nigerian separatist leader, resurfaces in Israel


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Image copyrightAFP/GETTYLeader of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Nnamdi Kanu steps out of the courtroom after being granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja, on April 25, 2017
Image captionNnamdi Kanu, the Ipob leader, says he is an Igbo Jew
Missing Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has resurfaced in Israel more than a year after soldiers stormed his home.

"I'm in Israel," Mr Kanu said on Sunday in a broadcast on his outlawed pirate radio station - Radio Biafra.

A video of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (Ipob) leader praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem has also been shared online.

Mr Kanu holds both Nigerian and British nationality and says he is Jewish.

His wife, Uchechi Kanu, told the BBC in February that she believed the government knew where her husband was being held after his home was raided by soldiers.

Mr Kanu has been campaigning for an independent state called Biafra in south-eastern Nigeria.

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In 2015, Mr Kanu was charged with "criminal conspiracy, intimidation and membership of an illegal organisation" - charges that could amount to treason.

He was released on bail last year after spending more than 19 months without trial on treason charges.

He then renewed his campaign for independence, before his house in the south-eastern Abia state was raided by the military.

Who is Nnamdi Kanu?
He was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and is broadcast to Nigeria from London.

Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nsukka, Mr Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.

Soon after setting up Ipob in 2014, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence. In some of his comments, he urged Biafrans to take up arms against the Nigerian state.

"We need guns and we need bullets," he said in one such address. This comment is what brought him to the attention of Nigeria's security services.


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22 October 2018 Africa

Old and recycled news.

Where is Kanu?

Live video or the person tweeting on Twitter is an impostor

May his gentle soul RIP

Please fellow Nigerians disregard this fake news. Kanu has dead in Italy hospital.


And he has however buried in Italy.

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Why are they bringing old news to show even more stupidity?

So Kanu has truly died?

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The only sire thing

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This OP propaganda shows in his a learner simply known as apprentice. Israel especially Jerusalem is currently on lockdown. Let him explain how the Dilector surfaces in a state where their is zero tolerance to disobedience!! Abeg Kanu is a past story simply put it as dead and buried and no propaganda will make him rise again!!

your BBC source no legit, a fake website

nairavsdollars:
May his gentle soul RIP

Puleeeese, don't be stupid! Even the journalism is trash!
Fake news!

Mazi Kanu dey him dey chilling with his beautiful wife...

susy6999:
your BBC source no legit, a fake

Thank you jareh

sammyj:
This OP propaganda shows in his a learner simply known as apprentice. Israel especially Jerusalem is currently on lockdown. Let him explain how the Dilector surfaces in a state where their is zero tolerance to disobedience!! Abeg Kanu is a past story simply put it as dead and buried and no propaganda will make him rise again!!

In that case, let him go and keep tormenting buhari over there. Kanu hates buhari like shii and won't back out from taking the fight to him in the other world.

ChoCho54:
In that case, let him go and keep tormenting buhari over there. Kanu hates buhari like shii and won't back out from taking the fight to him in the other world.

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helinues:
Old and recycled news.

Where is Kanu?

Live video or the person tweeting on Twitter is an impostor

Kemi has finished these people badly

ChoCho54:
Puleeeese, don't be stupid! Even the journalism is trash!
Fake news!

Mazi Kanu dey him dey chilling with his beautiful wife...

In your Room?