Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has promised to be in Nigeria to accord his mother, Ugoeze Sally, a befitting burial.
IPOB leader, who spoke through the Director Media and Publicity of the group, Emma Powerful, said he was not afraid of visiting Nigeria for his mother’s burial.
Although the date for the funeral has not been fixed, Kanu assured that when it was done, he would be present for the program.
“The decision regarding our leader’s coming home to Biafra land during his mother’s burial has not been concluded.
It is important we communicate properly to the 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 they were seeing in recent weeks saying there 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.
Kanu’s mother died on August 30 in Germany after a protracted illness.
The IPOB leader described his mother as loving, caring and a compassionate woman.
He also said she died because 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 caused 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.”
