The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has revealed that his members will continue to hold Nigerian politicians accountable for the services they were elected to render to the people.
Kanu, who spoke yesterday during an interview with Rose Peter Graham, the anchor of âRose On All Sides,â on Ben TV, United Kingdom monitored by Igbere TV, said very soon, all governors in Nigeria who have refused to pay their workersâ salaries, but travelling aimlessly across the world would be stopped from doing so.
The IPOB leader who spoke to the UK based television station from his temporary base in Germany, also condemned the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, describing it as something that should not be happening in this current generation.
He said: âVery soon, any governor who has not paid salaries will not come abroad anymore. If you are owing salaries youâre not allowed to go abroad anymore. âYou bank teachersâ salaries, you bank the salaries of pensioners, you cannot come abroad anymore.
So this is just the beginning. âWeâll not attack them. Weâll just ask them questions. It is called picketing. Itâs allowed within the ambit of democratic rules. âSo, if we see you, weâll ask you what youâve been doing with teachersâ salaries, nursesâ salaries and why youâve not being paying people and what are you doing here? âAny governor owing workers once we catch you abroad youâll tell us what youâve being doing with the salaries youâre supposed to pay.
âIt doesnât matter the state you come from, but once we catch you, you must explain why youâve not paid for six months, nine months, four months and where is the money?â On a change of strategy, to win more followers, Kanu said: âEverybody is in line with what we are doing except the criminals. Everyone is in line with what we are doing.
âThereâs no time on this earth that any process of agitation will be palatable for everyone or easy for everyone to buy into. When Nnamdi Azikiwe was campaigning for Nigeria to be free from colonial rule, he was sent to prison. âMany people felt he was a radical and declined to associate themselves with him. But in the end he succeeded in freeing Nigeria not know ing that we are jumping from frying pan to fire.
âAwolowo was the same thing. He was a fire brand. Many people didnât like his approach from the beginning, but on reflection and review of what he did and how he managed to accomplish them, people have come to understand that he meant well for his people. âSo, now that these things are happening, most people would not appreciate it, but Iâm sure that in many years to come, historians will look back to whatâs happening today.âÂ
He described Senator Ike Ekweremmaduâs experience in Nuremberg as a family matter within the Igbo people that would be settled in a family way.
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