I’ll rather die than renounce Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu

ONITSHA - Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and

Nnamdi Kanu has asserted that IPOB is not in the business of betrayal and as
such would rather prefer to die than to renounce Biafra and abandon the
struggle for its restoration.
In a press statement signed by its spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford
Iroanya, in reaction to the recent statement credited to members of the
Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND to the effect that a
negotiation could be reached with the federal government to release Kanu and
then he would renounce Biafra, IPOB quoted Kanu as saying that Biafra's
restoration is not subject of negotiation.
The statement entitled: "Biafra or death", added that if there should be any form
of negotiation at all, it must be centred on asset sharing between Nigeria and
Biafra and on the payment of reparations for money stolen from Biafrans by
Nigeria through the 1970 twenty pounds deal and other subsequent acts of
thievery by Nigeria against Biafrans.
According to the statement, "We want to make it categorically clear that MEND
and their Ahithophel Team are strictly on their own and do not in any way,
shape or form represent IPOB or the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. When
we say “Biafra or Death”, we meant every syllable of that phrase".
"Again, we reiterate that Nnamdi Kanu is not Ralph Uwazuruike and IPOB is not
MASSOB. Therefore, anybody thinking that our leader will renounce Biafra is
certifiably mad. For both IPOB and their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, it is either we get
Biafra or we die on the process of getting it. There is no middle ground".