Politics
NNAMDI Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed never to give up his agitation for Biafra inspite of the stringent bail conditions given him by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Kanu made the declaration on Monday when he paid a thank you visit to the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA in Enugu.
He was received by top members of the ECA, including Maria Okwor, Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Ukoh, among others.
While expressing his gratitude for support shown him by the two groups, Kanu said he chose the option of fighting to liberate the people of Biafra and that there was no going back.
“I have chosen the option that we must be free as a people; that we must be liberated as a race and that we must have every freedom due to us. God-given and I would not want to go to heaven to experience it; I want to experience it here.
“I thank all of you that worked very hard, especially the Igbo Youth Movement; I must be specific, and the Eastern Consultative Assembly and all the market men, market women, those that closed their shops to see us and all those who made efforts to ensure that I was not consumed.
“I thank all of you; those who contributed to my being here today, because without your pressure, I don’t think I will be here. However, the work is not done yet, we need to finish it.
“I desire Biafra, I want Biafra, I want nothing else other than Biafra, I will not settle for anything else other than Biafra. That is what I was born to do and that is what I will do till the day Biafra will come that we may live as free men on this very earth as the Most High God, Chukwu Okike Abiama, ordained it.”
On the bail conditions given to him by the court, he described it as obnoxious and unconstitutional, vowing to challenge it in the days ahead.
“On those we left behind, we are making effort to see that they come out because they committed no crime. All we are seeking is freedom; a return to the values we had before the advent of white men. A situation where people move their cows into our farms and slaughter our people will no longer be acceptable”, he said.
When approached for interview by journalists, Kanu declined, citing the bail conditions given to him by the court.
It would be recalled that Kanu was on April 25, granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The court had admitted Kanu to bail in the sum of N300 million with three sureties in like sum.
Observers were also worried that the bail conditions were rather stringent.
Justice Binta Murtala Nyako said she was convinced that Kanu was ill and needed more medical attention than the Nigerian prisons was giving him.
She, however, ordered that while on bail, Kanu must not hold any rallies, grant any interviews or be in a crowd of more than 10 people.
She also refused bail to the three other defendants standing trial with him, namely Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi. – Daily Independent
— May 9, 2017 @ 18:15 GMT
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