Biafra: IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu Reveals Group's Mission

Nnamdi Kanu, Nigerian Biafra political activist and leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday revealed that his mission is to "to dismantle Nigeria", AllNews reports.

Our Mission is clear:

1. To dismantle #Nigeria a racist construct, because it represents - oppression, #Islamic terror & EVERYTHING a nation should NOT be.

2)To restore a #Biafra that will be an epitome of EVERYTHING a nation should be, free from terror & oppression. pic.twitter.com/2hu5mHDgMn

— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) June 29, 2020

Nnamdi Kanu who founded now-banned IPOB in 2014 stated this on his known Twitter handle.

The movement wants a group of states in south-east Nigeria, made up mainly of people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away and form the independent nation of Biafra.

The plan 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.

But the idea of separatism has bubbled away since then and Kanu is the latest in a line of Biafran activists taking up the cause.

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He 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 broadcast to Nigeria from abroad.

Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nsukka, Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.