More Trouble For Nnamdi Kanu As Ijaw Youths Send Strong Warning To Him Over Biafra

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), under the umbrella of Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has warned the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu over his agitation for Biafra.

The group said the Indigenous People of Biafra should desist from including Ijaw territories in the map of Biafra.

The group said that there was no time the Ijaw ethnic nationality consented to be part of the Biafra Republic.

The IYC spokesman, Daniel Dasimaka, dismissed the claim credited to the pro-Biafran organisations that the Ijaw nation was part of Biafra pointed that the Ijaw people had never been Biafrans, saying that the old Eastern Region was a political contraption that enslaved the Ijaw people.

The group stated, 

"It is a known historical fact that a year before the world got to hear of the term Biafra Republic, the Ijaw led by the late Major Isaac Boro of blessed memory had declared a Niger Delta Republic in pursuit of the emancipation of the Niger Delta people which the progenitor of Biafran, late Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, of blessed memory, fought against as the then governor of the old Eastern Region when the going was good with him in the Nigerian state.

"It is also on record that a year before MASSOB was founded, the IYC, through the Kaiama Declaration, had affirmed ‘our commitment to joint struggle with the other ethnic nationalities in the region for self-determination.’

"We express our solidarity with all the peoples, organisations and ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and elsewhere who are struggling for self-determination and justice."