Kanu’s detention is no defeat to Biafra –MASSOB

The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday told the Federal Government not to see the one year ‘incarceration’ of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and founder of Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a defeat to Biafra agitators.

46 year old Kanu was arrested by DSS at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos in October, 2015, on his way back from the United Kingdom (UK). Since then, he has been in detention and tried foralleged treasonable felony. MASSOB said the continued detention and trial of Kanu has increased the agitation for the creation of Biafra State.

In a statement in Abakaliki to mark the one year of the detention of the IPOB leader, MASSOB leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu said, ‘’Nnamdi Kanu’s one year in detention should not be seen as defeat or morale killer by the Nigerian government, rather it is the leader’s sacrifice and price to pay for freedom because freedom can never be achieved on a platter of gold.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest, detention, political prosecutions, extra judicial killings of non-violent Biafra agitators engaged in peaceful procession, etc have revived and reawaken the remaining consciousness of Biafra’s existence and reality in the last one year.

‘’In non-violent struggle for self determination, the willpower, consistency and undying spirit of the oppressed always send shivers down the spines of the oppressor, he’s always jittery and afraid of the popularity and public recognition of the platforms of the agitation.

‘’Arrest, incarceration, killings, political prosecutions etc are all ingredients of revolutionary struggle and without these ingredients which are reactions of the oppressors against the freedom fighters, the international communities will not notice our cruel plights or sympathize with us. ‘’

In different times, other leaders have passed through the dungeon cage like Nnamdi Kanu, l spent three years, nine months and two weeks in DSS headquarters cell in Abuja, and Suleja, Lagos, Keffi, Kuje and Abakiliki Prisons excluding some weeks of detention in Onitsha Prison and several police detentions.” ‘

’We see these as sacrifices and prices to pay for freedom, we are not deterred, jittery or demoralized, our activities are creating more impacts, we have become a factor to reckon with’’.