Sally Kanu, the mother of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, is dead.
Mr Kanu, who announced his mother’s death on Sunday, said she died August 30 in Germany after a protracted illness.
He linked the Nigerian government to the death, citing alleged soldiers’ invasion of his Umuahia, Abia State residence in September 2017.
He said: “Watching her children being hunted and killed by the federal government was the cause of her illness, and today we have lost her.”
He, however, pledged not to be deterred by the death in his struggle for the actualisation of Biafra.
“I had said before that I was ready to sacrifice anything for Biafra, and today I have sacrificed my mum. We will not be deterred, we shall continue to fight for the freedom of our people.”
The IPOB leader, who disclosed his mum died long before his visit to the UN and several other engagements, described his resilience as a demonstration that the loss of his mother has not dampened his spirit.
He was, however, silent on the burial arrangements.
Meanwhile, IPOB has commiserated with their leader over the death of his mother.
A statement by the spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful, also blamed the death on the attack on Mr Kanu’s residence in Umuahia
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