Biafra: ‘The Battle Isn’t Over,’ Nnamdi Kanu’s Wife Tells Nigerian Govt

Uchechi Kanu, wife of Biafran leader Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, told the Nigerian government that the disappearance of her husband does not mean the battle against Biafran fighters has been won.

Speaking with the BBC Igbo service, Uchechi said it will take only the brave to fight for the actualization of Biafra.

She said members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were not daunted by Kanu’s non-appearance.

“If you don’t have a strong mind, you cannot fight a strong battle. They are with Nnamdi Kanu and they think the battle is over but it is not over. People have been asking questions. Our people are angry,” said Kanu’s wife.

Speaking on the IPOB leader’s disappearance, she said “I hope he is alive in their custody. I know who I married, he can never say had I known. There is no way.”

Uchechi said, “The IPOB people are not sleeping. The army is going to tell them where their leader is. Keeping Nnamdi Kanu does not mean that IPOB is asleep,” Uchechi said.

“I don’t know where my husband is. If he is dead or alive, I don’t know. People that are supposed to answer these questions are the army.

“The last time I saw him was when the army came to shoot in our house. He called me and asked if I was hearing the gunshots. I heard the gunshots and started shouting and asked him what was wrong.

“He said they are shooting and he is inside the house. That was the last time we spoke.”

Reacting to the Minister of Information, Alh. Lai Mohammed’s denial that Kanu is the custody of the Nigerian Army, she said:

“Of course, that is what they will say, that they don’t know where he is. Lai Mohammed said he is not in their custody. That is what happened in another part of Africa that IPOB people were showing the world when they held him at first in 2015.”

“I also asked them where he was and they claimed not to know. They released him afterwards. They have done it the first and second time, now they are lying about it for the third time. So, when they have done it twice and still claimed not to be the ones, would you believe?,” she queried.

On notions that the IPOB leader was trying to split the country, Uchechi responded: “This is what everybody is seeing that we want. My husband is not alone. He is fighting for the Biafrans. He wants togetherness. He is not coming out to be enemies with anybody. Our own ways are different, we do things differently.”

“The way they are treating us is different from the way they are treating other people. The Hausas act differently to each other than the way they act to Igbos. We want to leave. It is not a bad thing. So many other cities are leaving,” she added.