The
self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Nnamdi Kanu, has predicted that the secessionist group will be worse than Boko
Haram terrorists if he is killed.
Kanu,
who resurfaced in Jerusalem, Israel on 19 October after the military invasion
of his community in Abia state, made this statement in a two-and-half-hour
worldwide broadcast via radio Biafra from his base in Israel.
Stating
that Boko Haram picked up arms after its leader, Mohammed Yusuf and some
members of the group were killed, Kanu said members of the IPOB would have done
worse if he had been killed last year January when the army attacked his
community.
Making
reference to the recent attack carried out on a military base in Metele, a
remote village near the Nigerian border with Niger by Boko Haram terrorists, Kanu
said: “I take no delight in Boko Haram killing anybody but there is something I
must tell the whole world this evening that some of you don’t know.
Speaking
further, the IPOB leader said: “Boko Haram was like IPOB before. Do you know
that? They were peaceful agitating for an Islamic state in the northeast,
understand this very well. I don’t know who feed foreign governments their
news, I don’t know what the ambassadors are doing in Nigeria because they lied
to their government I’m sorry to say this, most ambassadors in Nigeria lied to
their host governments.
“Do
you know that Boko Haram was peaceful? They won’t tell you that. Boko Haram
didn’t just wake up one morning and become a terrorist group, something caused
it to happen and that is the same thing they tried to do to me. The day they
came to my house, I can assure you had they killed me Nnia Nwodo and his family
will be dead by now the same thing with every governor in the southeast and
they know this very well.
“Had
they succeeded in killing me on the 14th of September, what do you think IPOB
will do? Do you think IPOB will fold their hands and just be watching you? No,
they will come after Nigeria in a very grand style, I assure you, worse than
Boko Haram.
“You
have people all over the world say that Boko Haram is this and that, it’s a
lie, it was the Nigerian government that made Boko Haram metamorphose from a
peaceful group agitating for a Sharia state in the northeast to a terrorist
group, it is the fault of Nigeria. That is the fact of life.
“Nigeria
out of their stupidity and wickedness created Boko Haram. Do you know how Boko
Haram came about? They killed Mohammed Yusuf.
Mohammed Yusuf was the leader of Boko Haram. They killed him. What did
he do? He said he wants a referendum in the northeast so that people can follow
Sharia and that is their business.
“They
never meant to pick up arms for one day, it was when the Nigerian police and
the army went to Maiduguri, killed Yusuf and started killing people
indiscriminately that was when they picked up arms, so tomorrow they will start
killing IPOB, any day we say no and we pick up arms they will say we are a
terrorist group,” the pro-Biafra activist added.
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