Ahead of his Sunday evening broadcast, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has assured his people that the sovereign nation will come to reality.
Allnews reports that self-exiled Kanu was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and is broadcast to Nigeria from London.
Freedom is near and #TheZooMustFall
Don't miss tonight's broadcast.
Join me via my FB page, #RadioBiafra FB, FM, Radio Biafra App, Satellite & Online
Date: Sun. 26/04/20
Time: 7:00 PM GMT pic.twitter.com/Ip1O596n8W
— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) April 26, 2020
Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, Kanu moved to the United Kingdom (UK) before graduating.
Soon after setting up the now-outlawed IPOB in 2014, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence.
The plan for a Biafra state is not new.
In 1967, Igbo leaders declared a Biafran state. But after a brutal civil war, which led to the deaths of up to a million people, the secessionist rebellion was defeated.
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Kanu is the latest in a line of ethnic Igbo activists taking up the cause of pushing for an independent state, saying the Igbos have been marginalised by successive Nigerian governments.
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