IPOB, Emmanuel Kanu, others confirm Nnamdi Kanu’s re-appearance, as Nigerians blast Igbo leaders, opposition for politicising national security

*My brother is alive, says Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother

By KEMI KASUMU and Agency reports

One of two Nigeria’s terrorist groups, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has called on Igbo people of the country to remain resolute as its leader, Nnamdi Kanu appears in far away Israel.  The other terrorist group is Boko Haram.

This was as some Nigerians, who reacted to the news of resurfacing of the terrorist group leader, said the new development had exposed some Igbo leaders and politicians from the South East region and some opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s chieftains for conspiring against the Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration and the Nigeria Army in propagating falsehood and compromising national security, in respect of IPOB.

They derided the Igbo leaders for what they called laughable cheap politicking using national security issue to play politics with Alhaji Atiku Ababakar, who they suspected was responsible for the resurface, considering the role PDP people like Ayodele Fayose, Femi Fani-Kayode, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Ike Ekweremadu played during the IPOB crisis and the course cases that it triggered.

It will be recalled that some Senators of the current Senate and Igbo leaders including the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu were up in fight with the Federal Government over the purported disappearance of Kanu following the alleged invasion of his Aba home in the past.

Senator Eyinnaya Aberibe particularly boasted that the Army should be the ones to explain the whereabouts of Kanu.

The respondents have however mounted pressures on the sureties who stood for the chief terrorist leader on his release from court to be the ones to produce him in court or face the subsequences.

IPOB in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said that the appearance of their leader marks the beginning of struggle for Biafra independence.

He thanked God for his protection and safety.

The statement said in parts, “Fellow Biafrans, friends, enemies, men, women of goodwill and good conscious across the world.

“We wish to to reliably inform you that the supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu prayed today, October 19, 2018 at the wailing wall in the Holy city of David in Jerusalem live on Facebook.”

It would be recalled that since the army raid at the country home of IPOB leader in Afaraukwu, Abia State during the Operation Python Dance 2, KANU has neither been seen nor heard from.

The raid which led to the death of some members of IPOB created fear that Kanu may have been killed or incarcerated.

My brother is alive, says Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother

Long after joining in the plots against Nigerian Government and military to account for the whereabouts of his brother, Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother to the leader of the terrorist group, Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, said on Friday that his brother is alive.

Emmanuel said that Kanu was spotted at a worship place in Israel.

He made the disclosure in a telephone conversation with newsmen in Umuahia, saying that he received the information through an online video broadcast on Friday.

“I can boldly confirm to you that the person in the video is my brother, Kanu. He was praying in the video that we saw.

“We are happy that he is still alive and we will try to establish communication with him,” Emmanuel said.

He said that the news was received with wild jubilation in their family and Isiama Afaraukwu community in general.

“Everybody in my family and the entire community is celebrating and thanking God since we received the news,” he said.

He said that the Deputy Director of the organisation, Uche Ejiofor, also confirmed the online video report, when the family spoke with him on cellphone.

Newsmen report that the community declared Kanu and his parents missing in the aftermath of the Sept. 14, 2017 alleged invasion of their country home by members of the “Operation Pyton Dance II.”

The operation was deployed to dislodge the group in Umuahia, its operational headquarters.

The Federal Government described IPOB as a terrorist organisation and proscribed its activities in the country.

At a joint news briefing in Umuahia on Wednesday, leaders of the three component villages of Afaraukwu said that the whereabouts of Kanu’s father, Eze Israel Kanu, was still unknown.

They claimed that Kanu’s father, who was the traditional ruler of Isiama Afaraukwu in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia, got missing after the alleged attack on his palace.