Demonstrators wave flags and hold a sign reading “The United Nations grants our independence” during a protest calling for the release of pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, on September 23, 2016, in the Abidjan suburb of Treichville. Near one hundred Biafran Nigerians protested on September 23 in Abidjan, calling for the release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, according to an AFP .
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
Nnewi—The family of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu has decried and condemned the alleged incessant kidnap and killing of unarmed members of IPOB and Biafra agitators in parts of South East states.

IPOB protesters grounding Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, during their 1 Million March, to call for the immediate release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, on his way into Nigeria from UK
Kanu’s family in a statement entitled The Biafran blood that cries in Nigeria, by Prince Emmanuel Kanu, said the blood of Biafrans spilled in Nigeria since 1945 till date are crying to God for revenge, saying that is the reason why Nigerians are suffering today and until the government of Nigeria and her security agents stop such the killing of Biafrans, the suffering will persist.
The statement read in part: “They must allow Biafra to become an independent state. They arrested the anointed man of God, Mazi Kanu who was sent to come and liberate the of people Biafra and think they will go scot free, they do not know that his emergence is divine.
“The present administration will prolong Nigerians’ suffering unless the government and her security agents stop spilling the blood of Biafrans and release our brother, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other members of IPOB, detained illegally.”
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