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"I asked them to build a seaport in Igboland, but they refused. Instead, they allegedly offered to pay my family โฆ300 million every month.
They are not really after me, Nnamdi Kanu. They are after the ordinary Igbo people, I simply happen to be standing in their way.
I also requested an international airport and a seaport for Igboland. They allegedly told me that if those projects were approved, the region would develop beyond Lagos. Rather than grant those requests, they reportedly offered me an additional โฆ5 billion to remain silent.
I asked for equal rights and fair treatment for the Igbo people within Nigeria. Their response, they said, was that they would 'try their best.' Trying your best to treat my people as equal citizens of one Nigeria is unacceptable.
I then said, 'If that is the case, let my people have a referendum so they can decide whether to remain in Nigeria or leave.' Their answer, according to me, was that prison was the best place for me.
I am prepared to die for the Igbo people if Biafra is not achieved. The freedom of my people is the purpose for which I was born."
~Nnamdi Kanu had said from Sokoto prison
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I just learned that under Ghanaโs Free Senior High School policy, the government pays the WASSCE registration fees for every student in public schools.
Then I looked at Nigeria, where WAEC and NECO fees have just increased.
Iโm struggling to understand the logic.
Nigeria has one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world.
Thousands of children drop out every year because their families simply cannot keep up with the cost of education.
Education is under attack in Nigeria and we have to fight back.