Biafran agitation has taken a fractious turn as Ralph Uwazuruike accuses Nnamdi Kanu of running a deadly prison recruitment ring from Sokoto.
Uwazuruike revealed that the jailed IPOB leader, currently serving a life sentence for terrorism, is still actively inciting violence.
According to the MASSOB founder, Kanu’s continued radicalization of Igbo youths from behind bars is nothing short of a death sentence for the young men involved.
In a YouTube video made by the agitator, he called on leaders of Igbo nation and those of Pan Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo to mobilize and move to Sokoto to warn Kanu to stop the recruitment of Igbo youths into violence that will cause the end of their lives.
He said: “I hate violence, and anyone who knows me will agree that I do not have anything to do with violence. How can someone who was sentenced to prison remain there and be recruiting our youth to go into violence?
“He has been sentenced, he should remain in prison and serve his jail term in peace and not recruiting more people into violence. Everyday, our young men are killed because they are being deceived into engaging in violence by Nnamdi Kanu, who is recruiting them from prison.
“I want to suggest that Igbo leaders and the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo should mobilize to Sokoto and give Nnamdi Kanu a stern warning to desist from recruiting our young men into violence that will end their lives.
“In the north, we hear things like repentant terrorists and bandits, and federal government spend money to reintegrate them into society, so why can’t we have repentant IPOB members here?
“Why can’t the people who have been in violence renounce it and come out and seek amnesty, so that the federal government can rehabilitate them? Why do they have to be initiated deeper and deeper into violence, instead of thinking a way of coming out and embracing amnesty and enjoying rehabilitation,” Uwazuruike lamented.
The lamentations of the former leader of secessionist group, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (IPOB), is not unconnected to recent social media videos of hooded individuals who claim to be members of IPOB and loyal to Kanu, who claim they have been enlisted for a fresh round of violence in the South East.
Several of the videos which can be found on social media shut in unidentified bushes show hooded arms-bearing militants chanting songs of support for Nnamdi Kanu and threatening that a new wave of violence will hit the South East if their leader was not released.
Nnamdi Kanu recently sacked some of his trusted allies who were serving as Directorate of State, DOS, of Biafra from prison, while constituting a new leadership. He was also touted as recruiting 100 men for what he called 100-man-project, whose real duties were not defined.
