says Nigeria is a stupid country
- The interview was the first time he has
spoken to an international media outlet since
he was granted bail
- Kanu insisted that the Igbo people have
nothing in coming with Nigeria
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of
Biafra, IPOB in an interview has termed Nigeria a
stupid country.
Kanu who spoke to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his
father's home in Umuahia insisted that the Igbo
people have nothing in coming with Nigeria.
The interview was the first time he has spoken to an
international media outlet since he was granted bail
on health grounds in April by Justice Binta Nyako.
Kanu who spoke to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his
father's home in Umuahia insisted that the Igbo
people have nothing in coming with Nigeria
According to Al Jazeera, Nnamdi Kanu waves his
hand and puffs in frustration: "Nothing seems to be
working in Nigeria. There is pain and hardship
everywhere. What we're fighting [for] is not self-
determination for the sake of it. It's because Nigeria
is not functioning and can never function," he said.
In a show of defiance and an apparent flout of his bail
conditions, when Al Jazeera asked him if he was
worried that he will land in trouble with the federal
government for speaking to the media outfit, Kanu
was said to have scoffed: "I don't care," he said and
rolls his eyes.
Lamenting his situation, Kanu said: "I can't go outside
to call for a press conference. I can't go on Biafra
Radio to broadcast. I can't allow large [groups of]
people to basically congregate outside to see me …
it's like asking me not to breathe," he says.
Going further, the leader of IPOB said the Igbo identity
is not reckoned with in Nigeria, hence the reason for
his agitation.
"I'm not allowed to contest for the presidency of
Nigeria because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to aspire to
become the inspector general of police because I'm
Igbo. I'm not allowed to become chief of army staff
because I'm Igbo. What sort of stupid country is that?"
Kanu asks. "Why would any idiot want me to be in that sort of country?"
NAIJ.com recalls that in one of his broadcast on Radio Biafra, a London-based radio station, Kanu said:
"We have one thing in common, all of us that believe
in Biafra, one thing we have in common, a
pathological hatred for Nigeria. I cannot begin to put
into words how much I hate Nigeria."
Al Jazeera reports that "on the other side of the
parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see
Kanu. A throng of young men dressed in black guard
the compound. They refer to Kanu as, "our supreme
leader" or "his royal highness."
"Kanu is my saviour," says Sopuru Amah, a senior
student at one of Nigeria's oldest universities, the
University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of
Nsukka.
"Just like Jesus was sent to save the world, Kanu was
sent by God himself to save the Igbo people."
Meanwhile, the Tuesday, May 30, sit-home exercise as proposed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), kicked off in the southeast.
Photos making the rounds all over social media show
that many people within the region have complied
with the order to stay home.
Very few people have been seen on the streets and
businesses have been locked down for the day.
But as as the sit-at-home order continues with the
shut-down of some states in the south-east, a group from the region has warned Nnamdi Kanu against alleged continued flouting of the bail conditions
granted him.
Governors from the South east also maintained that there is no secession plan in the agenda of the Igbos.
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