Namdi Kanu, the indigenous leader of Biafra in Ipobu, suffered difficult trauma from his late parents on Friday after Nigerian forces tried to kill him at his home in Afarauku, Abia State. It reminded me of that.
Kanu said the trauma of the 2017 attacks led to the deaths of his parents, Hese Israel Okwu Kanu and Lolo Ugoeze Sally Nmeme Okwu Kanu.
In September 2017, the soldiers came to Afaraukwu’s canoe residence under Operation Python Dance, but the IPOB leader fled to Europe.
However, Kanu remembered his parents and complained that those responsible for their deaths were still free.
The IPOB leader announced this at his regular meeting with the Legal Team of the State Department, a DSS facility in Abuja.
A statement issued by Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, read: “Rising from today’s routine visitation with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, he instructed his legal team to issue the following statement:
“Five years ago today, I lost my precious parents (their Royal Majesties, Eze Sir Israel Okwu Kanu (JP) and Lolo Ugoeze Sally Nmeme Okwu Kanu). They suffered severe trauma from which they never recovered, while 28 other innocent souls were killed, simply because the Nigerian Army, without provocation, launched a deadly assault on our royal home with the sole intention of killing me.
“Because I survived, they quickly tagged IPOB a terrorist group to cover up their horrendous crime and mislead the gullible, a deception that persists to this day.
“The best tribute is to never forget what happened to them and all who fell in defence of freedom at our home.
“The Abuja-based murderers and their accomplices in Igboland who ordered this heinous, cold-blooded massacre of these innocent souls are still peddling their lies against my legitimate right to freely agitate for Biafra, as recognised by the laws of Nigeria.”
