Nnamdi Kanu is being starved, harassed and intimidated by prison officials - IPOB

Nnamdi Kanu is being starved, harassed and intimidated by prison officials - IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has condemned in strong terms the inhuman treatment being meted to Nnamdi Kanu a leading Biafran Nationalist and leader of the IPOB. IPOB stated that Kanu is being denied access to food and toiletries and has been subjected to serious intimidation and harassment by some prison officials in Kuje prison.


According to the IPOB the attitude was meant to psychologically dampen his spirit and make him renounce Biafra. But they are confident the Kanu they know will never shift grounds on his total commitment to the actualization of sovereign state of Biafra.

IPOB however, warned that it will make Nigeria ungovernable if anything happens to him.  In a statement issued in Nnewi by the IPOB Media and Publicity officer, Mr Emma Powerful, IPOB said that the inhuman treatment being meted to Kanu was meant to weaken his resolve as directed by the Federal Government agents who are now convinced that he will be set free by the court at the end of the day.

Powerful also berated those who are claiming that the Ijaw people are not part of Biafra, adding that the Ijaws are part of the Eastern region, “and nobody will ever change a people from what they are. The Ijaws are one people with one destiny with the Biafran people of the South East.We are one family. The Igbo, Ijaw, Igala, Igbanke, Igede and others have one value system and nobody can change it.”