{"id":167111,"date":"2025-06-16T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/benue-killings-expose-kanus-detention-and-innocent-blood"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:17:41","slug":"benue-killings-expose-kanus-detention-and-innocent-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-killings-expose-kanus-detention-and-innocent-blood","title":{"rendered":"Benue Killings Expose Kanu’s Detention and Innocent Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the blood of people killed in Benue State is crying out.<\/p>\n

IPOB claimed that the killings in Benue State, which it tagged genocidal has exposed the sinister agenda behind the illegal abduction, extraordinary rendition, and unlawful detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n

Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, alleged that Kanu\u2019s incarceration is a deliberate plot to facilitate the Fulanis conquest of indigenous people.<\/p>\n

In a statement he signed, Powerful said: \u201cIPOB under the leadership of our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wishes to once again put Nigerians on notice, especially those still deceived by the neo-colonial Fulani establishment that has held this country hostage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ongoing genocidal killings in Benue State, as widely reported by credible national media outlets, expose the sinister agenda behind the illegal abduction, extraordinary rendition, and unlawful detention of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who are still pretending not to know, let us spell it out clearly: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not the problem of Nigeria. He was the shield standing between indigenous populations and total annihilation by foreign-sponsored Janjaweed mercenaries masquerading as herdsmen.<\/p>\n

\u201cMazi Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s voice was the loudest and most fearless in warning about the creeping invasion of Fulani terrorist herdsmen, their RUGA settlement scam, and the evil Waterways Bill, all of which were carefully designed to seize ancestral lands and subjugate native populations. It was his dogged resistance that frustrated those plots and forced the Fulani oligarchy to activate Plan B \u2014 his abduction and continued incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the blood of people killed in Benue State is crying out. IPOB claimed that the killings in Benue State, which it tagged genocidal has exposed the sinister agenda behind the illegal abduction, extraordinary rendition, and unlawful detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. 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