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With military wing established, is Kanu’s IPOB now ready for armed conflict? (Video)
Perhaps, in a most brazing display till date, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, says it is ready for armed conflict, with men being groomed for possible war against Nigeria.
In a video that has gone viral, a group of individuals, mostly men and a sprinkle of ladies, are seen clad in black attires and different shades of red berets, lined up in rows on a road somewhere in Abia State.
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Looking rag-tag, a man is seen bellowing instructions and describing the assembly as men and women of Biafra Security Service (BSS). He also describes Nnamdi Kanu, who is seen ready to review the parade, as head of the armed forces of Biafra, while threatening that the group would take up arms if forced to.
Kanu has continued to confront the Nigerian state verbally, vowing that there was no going back on the Biafra project. He is widely held to have broken all the bail conditions granted him and may risk further detention if and when he returns to court for the substantive hearing of his alleged treason case in October.
Meanwhile, Kanu has called for boycott of elections in the South East of Nigeria.
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Anita Kingsley
August 16, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Fit and agile men of Biafra Security Seevice. The Nigeria forces should see why real security forces look like not their epileptic men who cannot even stand upright. God bless Biafra land!
JOHNSON PETER
August 16, 2017 at 3:17 pm
Amen. Our military is stronger than theirs who can’t tame the Boko Haram for years now
Animashaun Ayodeji
August 16, 2017 at 12:27 pm
It isn’t a bad thing to be very poor. All I can sss in these boys call themselves BSS I see poverty, they are too poor to feed themselves, so they opted in for a quicker option. Useless fellows.
Abeni Adebisi
August 16, 2017 at 12:28 pm
Whoever that is investing in these people have failed, they look like broom! Biafra is a failure, nothing can change that.
yanju omotodun
August 16, 2017 at 1:32 pm
I pity the senseless members of the Biafra security service, they are too vibrant in their prime life to die
JOHNSON PETER
August 16, 2017 at 3:16 pm
Pity your cowardice as Yoruba race, we are well able to dislodge ourselves from Nigeria either by peace or pieces
seyi jelili
August 16, 2017 at 4:56 pm
And it’s you people that will be pieces
seyi jelili
August 16, 2017 at 4:58 pm
I pity more ibos young bloods that will die like fowls just like 1967, may your foolish souls rest in hell in advance