Director of pirate radio, Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was on Saturday, reportedly arrested by Nigeria secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS).
Kanu, who is also acclaimed to be the Director of Biafra Television and the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was said to have been arrested in Lagos, yesterday. The Deputy Director of Radio Biafra, Uche Mefor, alongside other members of the group, in a marathon broadcast on the pirate radio, alleged that Kanu was arrested in Lagos by the security operatives, as he flew into Nigeria from his base in the UK.
The group in a tweet on Sunday, via its Twitter handle, confirmed the arrest.
In a statement published on its website, the separatist movement also confirmed that their Director has been arrested in Lagos by the Nigerian authorities, noting that it (Nigeria) has through this arrest played into the grand strategy of Biafrans. See statement here:
However, at the time of filing this report, Vanguard was yet to independently confirm the arrest, even as the DSS authorities were yet to publicly make any statement about the arrest.
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Posted: at 18-10-2015 06:39 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
They shud try to free him...bc the guy ve not wronged...except if they want war or problem...BIafrA we stand
Useless set of people...... Why una no come outside dey parade unaselves as biafra... Be like una parents no tell una how it ended in those day, yeye people without work to do
Posted: at 18-10-2015 10:22 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie
ARRESTING HIM IS ILLEGAL,HIS A FREEDOM FIGHTER. SO LET THEM FREE HIM COS WORLD IS WATCHING.
You think the world have time for una useless time wasting.... He is a nuisance to the community, so his arrest is not ILLEGAL, he himself is illegal... Useless lazy people
Posted: at 18-10-2015 10:23 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie
emma4love3 at 18-10-2015 11:04 AM (9 years ago) (m)
well they wil free him...but then he is operating illegal media house please enough of biafran we stand...what are you standing for... after 1967 biafra went cold til date...now there holding a leader non of you has made anymove ..... biafra we stand.. biafra united no where to stand..no unity...me am from the east too... but biafra no level.....every day police they all of nah for east,nothing nothing happen...
Posted: at 18-10-2015 11:04 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
emma4love3 at 18-10-2015 11:04 AM (9 years ago) (m)
well they wil free him...but then he is operating illegal media house please enough of biafran we stand...what are you standing for... after 1967 biafra went cold til date...now there holding a leader non of you has made anymove ..... biafra we stand.. biafra united no where to stand..no unity...me am from the east too... but biafra no level.....every day police they all of nah for east,nothing nothing happen...
Posted: at 18-10-2015 11:04 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
emma4love3 at 18-10-2015 11:19 AM (9 years ago) (m)
see now small DSS not army or police held him and no uprising...if is MEND leader withing 2hurs that place is full of his followers...we lost the b...attle and it all went cold
Posted: at 18-10-2015 11:19 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
nametalkam at 18-10-2015 12:10 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Everyday for the Monkey, just one day for the hunter, to be honest these Biafra fighters do not even represent the interest of majority of the igbos, they claim our country is a zoo and we are all animals, what effontry!
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Posted: at 18-10-2015 12:10 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero