Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB.
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru &
Chimaobi Nwaiwu
Leader of Independent People of Biafra, IPoB,
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has hailed those he
described as fallen heroes, saying the
actualisation of Biafra Republic is certain.
He expressed happiness over the peaceful way
his members and sympathisers of Biafra
observed this year’s Biafra Day celebration.
The Biafra Day celebration, observed yearly by
IPOB, held yesterday without any crisis as
people went about their businesses.
May 30, 1967 was the day then Colonel Emeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, then military-governor of
Eastern Region, declared Biafra as a separate
entity from Nigeria. Kanu had directed that there
would be no sit-at-home during this year’s Biafra
Day.
In a statement by the Media and Publicity
Secretary of IPoB, Emma Powerful, Kanu vowed
that May 30 will never be forgotten, and
commended the “bravery, commitment, and
courage of Biafran fallen heroes who staked their
lives for other Biafrans to live.’’
The statement reads:”Across the length and
breadth of Biafraland, across every inch of land
and forest where they fought and fell to protect
their children, their relatives, and their
generations unborn, we lit a beacon to shine their
light of hope upon this generation of IPoB.
“From Igede to Opobo, from Bakassi to Edo,
their light did shine at 12 midnight.
We must remember them every May 30, on
Biafra Heroes Day. IPoB will continue to
remember and celebrate them.
“We have remembered them and their memories
shall continue to abide with us until we achieve
that freedom for all, for which they laid down
their lives.
“The class of 19 67-70 we salute you. The
international community including United Nations,
European Union and European Parliament,
France, America, Africa and Nigeria should free
Biafra.”
Meanwhile, as some sections of the South-East
geopolitical zone marked the 53 years
anniversary of the declaration of defunct Biafra
Republic, Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN, has said
that time has come for the country to revisit
Aburi Accord.
Speaking to Sunday Vanguard, Ahamba, who
was the Minority Leader of old Imo State House
of Assembly in the Second Republic, said all the
things that led to the declaration of defunct
Republic of Biafra 53 years ago are still
prevalent in Nigeria.