{"id":17603,"date":"2019-11-04T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17603"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:43:48","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu finally makes shocking revelation on how he escaped from Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_People_of_Biafra\"> Indigenous People of Biafra<\/a> (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally explained how he managed to escape when military personnel on \u201cOperation Python Dance II\u201d stormed his Afaraukwu, Umuahia residence in Abia state.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu said they managed to get to Azumiri in the coastal area of Abia State from where he found his way to the Republic of Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast before landing in Senegal<\/p>\n<p>The IPOB leader said it took him over a year before he found his way into Israel after escaping Nigeria, describing it as the toughest moment of his life.<\/p>\n<p>He said he sustained serious injuries during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu said he moved through the creeks before he eventually found himself in the Republic of Benin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to rent a boat on the coast. We left from a small town in Abia, Azumiri, an unobtrusive place where the Nigerian authorities might not have thought to look,\u201d Kanu was quoted by Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe planned to go to the Republic of Benin, just west of Nigeria. For 14 days we travelled in dangerous seas in a small boat with an outboard motor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Atlantic off that coast is heavy, stormy, and treacherous; on more than one occasion waves threatened to swamp our little craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was still gravely injured and in need of constant medical attention. At one point we put ashore to find ice to keep the medication I needed chilled. It was a dangerous time. I stayed hidden in a room while my companions went foraging for supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Benin, I travelled by road to Senegal, a distance of nearly 2,000 kilometres. Once in Senegal I was able to make arrangements to travel to Israel. None of these journeys was easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was still in pain and the threat from Nigerian agents abroad never went away. When we stopped to rest on the road, I couldn\u2019t go out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy world was shrunk to a room with a window, and sometimes not even that. I might as well have been in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, all the countries I had to pass through rely economically on Nigeria, their governments corrupt enough to arrest me and send me back. I had to stay silent, unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t even tell my wife or family where I was, just in case they became targets. It was agonising to realise that they didn\u2019t know if I was dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael was a haven for me, but it took over a year to get there, and only then did I feel confident enough to let my fellow IPOB family members and immediate family know I was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally explained how he managed to escape when military personnel on \u201cOperation Python Dance II\u201d stormed his Afaraukwu, Umuahia residence in Abia state. Kanu said they managed to get to Azumiri in the coastal area of Abia State from where he found his way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[132,199,625],"class_list":["post-17603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-abia-state","tag-ipob","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nnamdi Kanu finally makes shocking revelation on how he escaped from Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally explained how he managed to escape when military personnel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nnamdi Kanu finally makes shocking revelation on how he escaped from Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally explained how he managed to escape when military personnel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-04T15:43:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Nnamdi-Kanu-award.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nnamdi Kanu finally makes shocking revelation on how he escaped from Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-04T15:43:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":456,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Nnamdi-Kanu-award.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia state\",\"IPOB\",\"Nnamdi Kanu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-finally-makes-shocking-revelation-on-how-he-escaped-from-nigeria\",\"name\":\"Nnamdi Kanu finally makes shocking revelation on how he escaped from Nigeria - 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