COVID-19: IPOB Donates N50million To ‘Biafra Citizens’

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has donated N50million to its citizen described as ‘the people of old Eastern Region of Nigeria’

While speaking with the Nation newspaper in an audio broadcast on Friday IPOB leader Nnamdi Okwu Kanu said the contingency fund was from IPOB’s coffers.

He further disclosed that part of the fund would be used to ensure that some hospitals located at strategic centres in the Southeast zone were equipped to tackle the scourge.

“We never knew that the virus is coming, we have commitments all over the world, we are committing initial N50 million to make sure we educate and prepare our people for what is to come.”

However, he had also said that N300 million would be budgeted to fight the coronavirus while N50 million is to pay doctors and nurses that would be hired to take care of those infected.

“We will establish one hospital in every state of Biafra including Edo State. We are going to open food store for the people. If you are to confine the people at home, you must make sure they don’t die of hunger. We are even going to feed those who are not IPOB members. This is what advanced countries are doing for their people

“I am worried for Africa and humanity but my primary concern is for the people of Biafra.” He said

Kanu also said that the virus had exposed the unpreparedness of the government of Nigeria to tackle emergencies such as the Coronavirus.

“We do not have the hospitals that can sustain the pandemic. The outbreak of the disease has put Nigeria to shame. All these years of looting, telling people lies of building hospitals has exposed the government insincerity.” He concluded