{"id":51003,"date":"2021-09-30T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=51003"},"modified":"2021-09-30T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:33:07","slug":"nnamdi-kanus-ex-deputy-mefor-links-dr-chike-akunyilis-killing-to-ipob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanus-ex-deputy-mefor-links-dr-chike-akunyilis-killing-to-ipob","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s ex-deputy, Mefor links Dr Chike Akunyili\u2019s killing to IPOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Uche Mefor, former Deputy Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has linked the killing of Dr Chike Akunyili to the pro-Biafra group.<\/p>\n<p>Chike, who is the husband of late Dora Akunyili, the ex-Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, was killed in Anambra State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The separatist group had denied involvement in Chike\u2019s killing, stressing that it was a political assassination.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mefor insisted that the violence created by IPOB in the southeast is responsible for the death of Chike.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook by Mefor reads partly: \u201cWhat the Indigenous People of Nnamdi Kanu (IPONK) is doing of late is criminality, it is a category of heinous crime called crimes against humanity within the Rome statute and the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, ICC, and no more freedom fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is on record that the inspiration of the violent utterances, threats, and incitements to horror by Nnamdi Kanu and his bumbling sycophantic criminal gang members of the not-fit-for-purpose DOS, a series of sponsored and blanket assassination\/killing campaigns and extra-judicial extermination of the innocent unsuspecting Igbo Biafrans have been commissioned and ridiculously on an ongoing basis\u2014\u2013hailed and celebrated by a cross-section of the gullible as UNKNOWNGUNMEN\/ESN, as fighting the Fulani herdsmen and in the name of freedom fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest is the unfortunate assassination of Dr. Akunyili.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Killers would face judgment \u2013 Buhari reacts to Akunyili\u2019s death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Uche Mefor, former Deputy Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has linked the killing of Dr Chike Akunyili to the pro-Biafra group. Chike, who is the husband of late Dora Akunyili, the ex-Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, was killed in Anambra State on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,5515,199,5499,254,625],"class_list":["post-51003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-chike-akunyili","tag-ipob","tag-mefor","tag-nigeria","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\u2019s ex-deputy, Mefor links Dr Chike Akunyili\u2019s killing to IPOB - 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