Kanu Is In Prison For Radio Biafra but who'll be imprisonedfFor BBC Hausa service? Achuzia querried
Col. Joe Achuzie has faulted the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and director of Radio Biafra
while there is an indigenous Hausa BBC service for the northerners.
In an interview with Vanguard, the Biafra warlord said Kanu’s detention
on the basis of operating a radio station was weak as Biafra people were
interested in retaining their identity.
Achuzie said that contrary to popular perception, Igbos were not
interested in leaving Nigeria but wish for their identity to be
recognised.
He said: “The whole world is now a global village. Part of the north
had already established themselves not only in our present day Nigeria
but throughout the world whereby they set up what they called Hausa BBC
linguistic dissemination of information. Everything is said in Hausa
whereby people from our area, from the Biafran area do not even
understand what is being disseminated .
“We feel that we are equally entitled to that. But to tell us that
the name Biafra be expunged from the lexicon of Nigeria while it remains
in the lexicon of the world, we will not agree because that is denying
us of our fundamental human right. We have a right to answer whatever
name we feel is indigenous to us . Nigeria is not indigenous to us.
“Let Buhari say that as far as he is concerned you can answer any
name, not telling us that those who don’t want to be in Nigeria should
leave. If he can carve out the land and tell us where to carry it to,
then we will follow that request but we are saying we have a lot of ties
with our neighbours occupying the territory called Nigeria. We want to
maintain those ties but we want to answer the name we want.
“Kanu is being held because of Radio Biafra but nobody is holding
somebody for BBC Hausa service, nobody. Is that not double-standard?
“If we wanted to pull out, we wouldn’t be allowing our people to
invest so much all over Nigeria but people who want to push us out want
to eliminate us and claim the heritage we have sown to make Nigeria what
it is today . So, hear it loud and clear, it is not in our agenda to
pull out . If people want to pull out, will they be going to court?
Denying us judicial succour means they have another agenda on how to
eliminate us. What makes a man independent is his identity.”
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