{"id":918140,"date":"2022-01-20T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/nnamdi-kanus-denial-of-ipob-a-good-reason-why-the-youths-must-abandon-the-proscribed-group\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:23:43","slug":"nnamdi-kanus-denial-of-ipob-a-good-reason-why-the-youths-must-abandon-the-proscribed-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/nnamdi-kanus-denial-of-ipob-a-good-reason-why-the-youths-must-abandon-the-proscribed-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu&#8217;s Denial of IPOB: A Good Reason Why the Youths Must Abandon the Proscribed Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0b07554ae30a444db5335fff781c8318\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As Nnamdi Kanu continues to battle for his freedom from detention over charges of terrorism, the pro-Biafra activist has denied ever being a member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), according to one of the prosecution counsel, Shuaibu Labaran. The federal government lawyer told journalists that Kanu pleaded not guilty to the 15-count charges of treasonable felony, which included his involvement in acts of terrorism allegedly perpetrated by members of IPOB.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/07c8728ec4b04fdf992793b9b0ed1b0c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said:<strong> &#8220;One of the charges suggests that the defendant, Nnamdi Kanu, is a member of IPOB, and he vehemently denied being a member of IPOB.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;That is very curious and we urge Nigerians to see how we are going to prove all those charges against the defendant in no time to come,&#8221;<\/strong> Barrister Shuaibu Labaran disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Good Reason for Youths to Abandon the Proscribed Separatist Group&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my view, this is a valid reason why every member of the proscribed group should abandon the movement. If their leader, Kanu, could deny being a member of IPOB, it shows that Nnamdi Kanu has abandoned the ideology. Hence, any youth who is holding on to the separatist ideology or movement should desist from it and embrace the call for one Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: The Cable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: PenGame999 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nIPOB<br \/>\nKanu<br \/>\nNnamdi Kanu<br \/>\nShuaibu Labaran<br \/>\npro-Biafra<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Nnamdi Kanu continues to battle for his freedom from detention over charges of terrorism, the pro-Biafra activist has denied ever being a member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), according to one of the prosecution counsel, Shuaibu Labaran. The federal government lawyer told journalists that Kanu pleaded not guilty to the 15-count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}