Pro-Biafra agitators reach out to Pope Francis-Kanu
Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:39:am National
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Pope Francis greeted a group of activists from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, who are campaigning for secession from Nigeria, after they gathered at the Vatican on Sunday.
They said that the group appealed to the Catholic Pontiff to wade into the killing of their members and the injustice meted to them, especially that of Kanu by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
At a press conference in Nnewi, Anambra State on Monday, the IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful, said the group had made 5,500 calls to Pope Francis who accepted and gave his words to pray for the agitators and talk about Biafra and its restoration.
He said: "The IPOB bombarded Pope Francis with 5,500 calls and the Pope accepted the calls and gave his word to make sure he talks about Biafra and the restoration of Biafra, and yesterday about 35,000 Biafra agitators in Europe, Asia and America visited the Pope at the Vatican City and the Pope and other Catholic leaders addressed them as Biafrans and prayed for them, the first time a world leader at that level addressed us and called us by the name Biafrans and prayed for us.
"We are therefore calling on other church leaders to condemn the killing of innocent protesters and agitators and the detention of an innocent man (Kanu) who did not break the law of a country we are not part of, a country that we are demanding our freedom from that they have forcefully taken and are killing us for demanding our freedom. This evil must be condemned by world leaders, whom we want to pray for us.
"We urge Christian leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglicans worldwide, World Christian Society (WCS) and American Christians to pray for Biafra's actualisation and freedom. This is the time to stand up for truth, because the Boko Haran who are killing people on daily basis have not been visited with the type of extra judicial killings with which the APC government has visited us," Powerful said.
The IPOB leader appealed to the world leaders to ask President Buhari and his administration to stop killing innocent Biafra agitators and innocent Igbo for doing nothing wrong against the state except for drawing attention to their marginalisation.
They said that the group appealed to the Catholic Pontiff to wade into the killing of their members and the injustice meted to them, especially that of Kanu by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
At a press conference in Nnewi, Anambra State on Monday, the IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful, said the group had made 5,500 calls to Pope Francis who accepted and gave his words to pray for the agitators and talk about Biafra and its restoration.
He said: "The IPOB bombarded Pope Francis with 5,500 calls and the Pope accepted the calls and gave his word to make sure he talks about Biafra and the restoration of Biafra, and yesterday about 35,000 Biafra agitators in Europe, Asia and America visited the Pope at the Vatican City and the Pope and other Catholic leaders addressed them as Biafrans and prayed for them, the first time a world leader at that level addressed us and called us by the name Biafrans and prayed for us.
"We are therefore calling on other church leaders to condemn the killing of innocent protesters and agitators and the detention of an innocent man (Kanu) who did not break the law of a country we are not part of, a country that we are demanding our freedom from that they have forcefully taken and are killing us for demanding our freedom. This evil must be condemned by world leaders, whom we want to pray for us.
"We urge Christian leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglicans worldwide, World Christian Society (WCS) and American Christians to pray for Biafra's actualisation and freedom. This is the time to stand up for truth, because the Boko Haran who are killing people on daily basis have not been visited with the type of extra judicial killings with which the APC government has visited us," Powerful said.
The IPOB leader appealed to the world leaders to ask President Buhari and his administration to stop killing innocent Biafra agitators and innocent Igbo for doing nothing wrong against the state except for drawing attention to their marginalisation.
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