The family of the detained Biafra Indigenous People’s Leader IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu urged the public to ignore the voice memo circulating on social media, claiming that the IPOB Leader was poisoned.
Kanu’s brother, Prince Emmanuel, told our reporters that he, along with Kanu’s attorney, met on Thursday with IPOB leaders at the Department of State Services, DSS headquarters in Abuja, where he was detained.
The body is now He said his brother did not tell him he was poisoned as at Thursday when they met last, but promised to find out the true situation on Monday, January 30, when he said he hoped to visit him again.
Kanu’s brother wondered how the story of the alleged poisoning started and warned against fake news.
Prince Emmanuel urged Kano’s followers, Biafrans and members of the public not to take the law into their own hands but to remain calm as he hoped to see and hear from his brother again on Monday.
Kanu’s brother had posted on his Facebook page the result of Thursday’s meeting with him.
The post reads: ”I met Mazi Nnamdi Kanu at the Evangelical Company and Barr Nnaemeka Ejiofor at the Department of State Services, Abuja.
“As always, our focus is more on the victories recorded and the way forward. He maintained that this struggle for liberation remains a collective fight and thanked those who have not betrayed the struggle.
“He said Nigeria has consistently flouted the orders of its own court and this will never be tolerated in IPOB.
Those who attacked this noble building were not there when it was built and it can never be brought down “This movement is divine.
To me, IPOB is a great achievement for our people and for men and women of conscience. We have come so that mankind can be set free”.
Meanwhile, the voice note which is currently trending on social media claimed that Kanu was poisoned in custody, urging ‘Biafrans’ to rage in protest.
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