South-East Group Vows To 'Physically Deliver' Nnamdi Kanu To Police If He Ever Enters Nigeria
According to
a SaharaReporters report, the South-East Renewal Group (SERG) has berated
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), over
his position on the 2019 general election.
The group
said Kanu’s declaration that there will be no election in the South-East, which
he claimed to be ‘Biafra territory’, is a joke that should not be taken
seriously.
On Sunday,
Kanu addressed a world press conference via an audio broadcast, 13 months after
he vanished following a raid on his home by the military in September 2017.
In the audio
broadcast obtained by Sahara Reporters, Kanu stated that he was back and would
"bring hell" upon his return.
However, a
statement by Charles Mbani, National President of SERG on Monday, rebuked Kanu
for looking to "cause trouble for the people of South-East of Nigeria
origin, who have spent the last one year rebuilding confidence with their
neighbours in their bid to repair the damages caused by previous bellicose
behaviour of him and his IPOB members".
It promised
to "physically deliver him to the nearest police station for onward
transportation to appear in court" if he ever sets foot upon the country
SERG
declared that Nnamdi Kanu and the faction of IPOB do not speak for the Igbo as
a people.
The
statement read: “His utterances are at variance with the belief of the
people of the South-East Nigeria, who are cultured, have maximum regards for
Nigerians of other ethnic stocks, believe in the unity of Nigeria, while they
continue to clamour for restructuring that will promote equity, respect
constituted authority and institutions and will never descend low to the point
of disparaging other human beings.
“The annals
have recorded it that Nnamdi Kanu is a coward, who incited promising Igbo youth
to throw away their lives literarily and figuratively. He threw the entire
South-East into confusion and pocketed the money raised from suffering Igbo
masses only for him to escape when the people had erroneously thought he had
something in stock for them.
“It is the
height of insult to the Igbo sensibility for him to think that putting up this
charade from the Holy Land will fool Ndi Igbo another round. If he is broke and
wants to use this latest performance to finance his drug-addled life, he should
have a rethink and look for honest work to pay his own bills.
“We strongly
believe that his desperation for money has made him team up with those that are
out to frustrate the Igbo agenda and interest. We say this because it is
curious that Kanu had hidden for so long as a common criminal, only for him to
turn up at a time when the political fortunes of the South East are improving
with the nomination of one of our own, Mr. Peter Obi, as a vice presidential
candidate in next year’s election.
“SERG hereby
categorically places Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and any miscreant that buys into the
poisonous ideology they promote that not only will election hold in the
South-East but that people will also come out to exercise their voting rights
without being molested.
“Igbo will
mobilize to ensure this chance is not lost, certainly not in this lifetime. On
the other hand, at the end of the general election, which would hold everywhere
in a united Nigeria, Kanu would have proven beyond doubt that he is a liar and
an utter symbol of falsehood that is at best treated as a pariah.
“As for
Kanu’s threat to continue skipping bail while visiting 'Biafraland', SERG
strongly advises him to turn himself over to the court and stand trial since he
claimed to have revelations that will rattle Nigeria. He is guaranteed to spend
a sizeable portion of his remaining years in jail, if only to atone for our
youth that he misled to their deaths.
"Since
there is no internationally recognised nation called Biafra, we dare Kanu to
step foot anywhere in Nigeria — within or outside the South-East — and SERG
members will physically deliver him to the nearest Police station for onward
transportation to appear in court.”
Source:
Comments
Post a Comment