The Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed to return to Nigeria in order to accord his mother, Ugoeze Sally, a befitting burial.
Kanu made this known in a statement made available to Igbere TV through the Director Media and Publicity of the group, Emma Powerful.
Kanu noted that he was not afraid of visiting Nigeria for his mother’s burial.
Although the date for the funeral has not been fixed, Kalu assured that when it was done, he would be present for the program.
“The decision regarding our leader’s coming home to Biafraland during his mother’s burial has not been concluded. It is important we communicate properly to the general public that as soon as the arrangement for his coming is perfected, he will come home,” he said.
Powerful urged members of the group not to panic nor be confused on the new Jewish code of dressing by the faithful that they were seeing in recent weeks saying they were several jewish worship centers in the South East.
“We commend Jewish prayer group in Owerri, yesterday, for their doggedness and discipline. Those with white garments and Jewish caps are our church members; they were coming back from church service. We have branches all over Biafra- land. They were embarking on sensitisation movement to let the world and the Jewish community know that our people need Biafra to become an independent nation,” Powerful said.
Igbere TV had reported that Kanu’s mother died on August 30 in Germany after a protracted illness.
The IPOB leader de- scribed his mother as lov- ing, caring and a compassionate woman.
He also said she died as a result of trauma she went through when soldiers stormed their Afaraukwu home in Umuahia on September 14, 2017 during the Operation Python Dance exercise.
The IPOB leader claimed her mother, seeing how soldiers killed people in their compound got traumatised and took ill and never recovered from it.
“Watching her children being hunted and killed by the federal government was the cause of her illness, and today we have lost her,” he said. He, however, pledged not to be deterred by the death in his struggle for the actualisation of Biafra.
“I said before that I was ready to sacrifice anything for Biafra, and today I have sacrificed my mum. We will not be deterred, we shall continue to fight for the freedom of our people.”
The IPOB leader, who disclosed his mum died long before his visit to the UN and several other engagements, described his resilience as a demonstration that the loss of his mother has not dampened his spirit.
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