IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu Addresses Radio Biafra Ownership Controversy

Nwannekaenyi "Nnamdi" Kanu, a Nigerian Biafra political activist, and leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria says although the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB's) Ralph Uwazuruike founded Radio Biafra, 'I resurrected it with my money',  AllNews reports.

Radio Biafra, also known as Voice of Biafra, is a radio station that was founded by the government of the defunct Republic of Biafra (a state in West Africa that existed from May 1967 to January 1970).

The radio station now operated by controversial Kanu, is believed to have its first transmission before the Nigeria-Biafra war. The station was instrumental in the broadcast of speeches and propaganda by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to the people of the Republic of Biafra.

Now based in the United Kingdom (UK), Radio Biafra transmits via the internet and shortwave broadcast targeted to the Eastern Nigeria. Radio Biafra claims to be broadcasting the ideology of Biafra –"Freedom of the Biafran people".

On Friday morning during his routine online broadcast (Radio Biafra) which was monitored by this reporter, Kanu, 52, states that Radio Biafra is still alive thanks to him.

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"[Ralph] Uwazuruike was telling people that he founded Radio Biafra. Yes, I established Radio Biafra with the help of MASSOB in 2009. That same 2009, they stopped funding Radio Biafra and Radio Biafra went moribund; it went extinct," Kanu said.

"And 2012, I resurrected Radio Biafra with my own funds. As simple as that."