Arrest Kanu, and you shall see, group threatens

A group is threatening fire and brimstone on the country if the government makes moves to arrest Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu

The Igbo Renaissance Agenda (IRA) released  a statement stating this following calls for arrest of Kanu by Northern youths

In a statement issued by its Coordinator, Jude Ndukwe and Secretary, Amaka Ekwo, the group asked that Northerners should stop intimidating other

Nigerians.

“Following the call last week by the Arewa Youth Assembly to the Acting President to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for what they termed “threats to national security” arising from his movements in parts of his country, we, the Igbo Renaissance Agenda, IRA, wish to state that such calls are not only hypocritical and callous but also prove that the real enemies of Nigeria are the several Arewa groups being used to achieve some sinister agenda by their elders”, the statement read.

“We are alarmed that while the dreaded Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists designated as the most dangerous and fourth most dangerous terrorist groups in the world respectively are having a field day killing innocent Nigerians almost on a daily basis especially the latest one in Maiduguri where oil explorers, university lecturers, staff of NNPC and our security agents were mowed down in cold blood, some still missing while some others were kidnapped, the concern of Arewa groups is an Nnamdi Kanu who is non-violent, never kidnapped anyone, nor requested for ransom from anybody unlike terrorist groups from Arewa’s enclave.

“While the Arewa controlled military and other security forces keep releasing dangerous terrorists into the society in the name of de-radicalisation, they also empower them by giving them huge sums of money in exchange for kidnap victims thereby compromising the general safety and well being of law abiding Nigerians.”

Kanu has asked the government to set a date to allow Biafra move for a referendum for independence from Nigeria.

He had also threatened that election would not hold in Anambra and the South-east if a referendum is not held.

“Our message to the Arewa youths and their elderly sponsors is simple: we dare anyone to touch Nnamdi Kanu and see if the nation would survive it even a minute longer”, the statement continued.

“The days of lording it over Nigerians and cowing the rest of the country into silence are long over. It is a new dawn and the earlier the misguided Arewa youths and their elders know this, the better for all of us!”

Some have called Kanu mental, others have called his methodology and his brash struggle for Biafra misguided and futile.

A group referred to as the Biafra Zionist Federation announced that Biafra had seceded from Nigeria, rather unceremoniously.

It will be recalled that following his release from jail, Kanu proudly proclaimed that he was flaunting all his bail conditions adding that Buhari had not been held to account for some prisoners of the DSS whom he had been asked to release.

So much drama, so much tension. Which way forward Nigeria?