An International Media personality and presenter, George Chukwu, has revealed some details surrounding an alleged deal that led to the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Nigeria Government.
In a Statement to from
Toronto, Canada, the renowned presenter with Canada’s Afroglobal
Television and Vice-President of the Nigeria Canadian Association (NCA)
said he got reliable information from sources in the deep background
from Aso Rock how the IPOB leader was arrested during the military
exercise in his hometown along with his parents in 2017 and held in
Bonny, Rivers State under solitary confinement and released after the
former Director-General, DG, of the Department of State Services, DSS,
Moman Daura, working together with the former Governor of Abia State,
Orji Uzor Kalu, convinced President Muhammadu Buhari and Abba Kyari to
recruit him to work for the state.
Chukwu said,
“I
gathered from a very senior security official in Abuja that Nnamdi Kanu,
his parents and driver were apprehended by the Army DMI operatives and
initially taken to Ohafia on September16th of 2017. He was later removed
from the military facility and taken to a Naval yard in Rivers State.
His parents were held at Ohafia before they were transferred to Abuja
and kept in a DSS safe house on Kwameh Nkrumah Street, Asokoro in Abuja.“According
to my source, Nnamdi Kanu was wounded when he was arrested; he had a
broken rib and was limping. The DMI kept the information about his
arrest secret to manage the outcome of the infamous Operation Python
Dance the army initiated which culminated to his being arrested.The
FG was worried that information leaking about his arrest would trigger
off protests and possible riots throughout the South East and
South-South. Their fear stems from the fa that Asari Dokubo had aligned
with Nnamdi Kanu and the FG did not want the Niger Delta militants to
start blowing pipelines again. They already had the Avengers that were
causing enough trouble for them.“When the case Nnamdi Kanu was
answering was called and the court was told he was nowhere to be found
and following the Army HQ saying they did not know where Nnamdi Kanu
was, it was decided that the information became top secret. It was at
this time that the British Government made enquiry about Nnamdi Kanu who
holds a British citizenship and the Attorney General and the Foreign
Affairs Minister assured them that he was safe. Nnamdi Kanu sneaked into
the country in 2015 with both his British passport and his Nigeria
passport which enabled the Nigeria government to arrest him as he is
also her citizen. Had Nnamdi Kanu had only his British passport he would
have been safe. This was the argument the FG through the Attorney
General offered to the UK diplomats and they kept cool.“Towards
June 2018, Nnamdi Kanu became very ill and at a point took to hunger
strike but was well taken care of. The doctor that was seeing him is
called Dr. Obegi from Kogi. Nnamdi Kanu was said to have refused being
given any injection which worsened his condition. He told his handlers
he was afraid he would be killed the way Musa Yar Adua was allegedly
killed. In all the months he was incarcerated he did not break. On the
day that the World Cup final was played, his parents were brought to
visit him.“The DSS had been working his parents and they asked
Nnamdi to reveal the funding of IPOB and how the money transfers were
done. You remember, there was a time the Minister of Information, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed gave a press conference saying that IPOB had foreign
sponsors from Spain; that information many others were given to the DSS
by Nnamdi Kanu. His parents meeting him was a struck of luck as he
became weakened and agreed to reveal all that the authorities wanted
from him. But he demanded that his parents be released.“At this
point of negotiation, the Federal Government brought in the former
Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu and he was contacted by Abba
Kyari to get into the negotiation since he knew most of the sponsors of
IPOB. Kalu went to see Kanu on in early August but the meeting did not
yield any dividend as Kanu maintained his demand that his parents be
released.“The former Governor was said to have asked
the government to use Nnamdi Kanu’s parents as leverage or collateral
knowing that his negotiations with Kanu never ever gets through.“It
was during this time that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the
Hague delivered its verdict on their investigation into the activities
of the Nigeria Army and concluded that they committed grave human rights
abuses including killing innocent people. That development cut short
the plan to release Nnamdi Kanu’s parents.”It was at this time
that it was said the former DSS boss, Daura, came into the picture and
told Nnamdi Kanu that he would have a new brief. He made it clear that
his parents would be held while he would continue with a message of
election boycott as the IPOB were canvassing. Nnamdi Kanu was told in
specific words that he was being recruited to propagate the election
boycott in the South East and South South knowing that these regions
will not vote for President Muhammadu Buhari.“It was
Daura that decided to have Nnamdi Kanu released to be flown to Israel
after a deal was reached. Nnamdi Kanu was removed from Bonny and taken
to Enugu airport from where he was transported to Abuja and connected to
Israel.“This is why Nnamdi Kanu has been pushing for election
boycott because he knows that this will affect Atiku Abubakar and Pater
Obi so that Buhari will win. He has kept quiet about how he left the
country, only saying that Biafra Intelligence took him away. He has not
mentioned where his parents are and has been doing everything to make
sure he keeps his own part of the deal which was to be on till after the
elections. My source said that Nnamdi Kanu was told to act like he used
to but when he did the Jibril taunt and it went viral he was reminded
of the pact he had with the government that is why he lately took to
Atiku.”
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