BREAKING NEWS: DSS Arrests
Radio Biafra Director
A statement published on the website of Radio Biafra on Saturday, October
17, disclosed the arrest of its director, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by the Department
of State Services (DSS) as soon as he got to Nigeria from the United Kingdom.
The separatist movement also made
the confirmation of the arrest of Kanu on its twitter handle.
The Biafra
media added that Kanu who is also the director of Biafra Television and the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was arrested in Lagos yesterday
thereby abruptly putting to an end a marathon broadcast of the Radio.
It said
that the broadcast which was hosted by Mazi Uche Mefor, the deputy director,
had the entire members of the directorate of states of the IPOB in attendance.
In the
statement, the radio which alleged Kanu’s arrest said that news broadcast was
laid beard to the ardent listening audience.
However,
the Deputy Director, Uche Mefor emphatically expressed the family’s
determination and resolved to carry on with the project of Biafra restoration.
Mefor
said: “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is and remains our director and leader of
the struggle. Every structure of the IPOB remains intact. All family meetings
must go on as usual. We enjoin all members and principal officers to stay
active and never give up faith. If they think that detaining the director will
shake our resolve, they better think again. Rather discouraged, it will spur us
all the more to action.”
The radio
said that the members of the directorate of states took turns to express their
commitment and loyalty to both the Biafran struggle and outright condemnation
of the unwarranted detaining of the Director Radio Biafra.
It said
that the Biafran radio and television would not be deterred following the
director’s arrest adding that all activities will continue with their broadcast
as usual.
IPOB is a
separatist movement that calls for the independence of Nigeria’s former Eastern
Region – proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967 and re-annexed to Nigeria
three years later sequel to a civil war that claimed between one and three
million lives.
The civil
war became a period that is indelible in the minds of those at the time.
Some years
ago the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB), another secessionist movement with the aim of securing the resurgence
of the defunct state of Biafra from Nigeria had suffaced.
MASSOB is
being led by Ralph Uwazuruike who was later arrested and detained during the
former president Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration.
Meanwhile,
some years ago the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB), another secessionist movement with the aim of securing the
resurgence of the defunct state of Biafra from Nigeria had suffaced.
MASSOB is
being led by Ralph Uwazuruike who was later arrested and detained during the former
president Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration.
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