I’m scared to return to Nigeria – man who started Biafra with Kanu cries out
– Another leader of Biafra detained in Norway, may be deported to Nigeria
– He is scared to return home because of his position on Biafra
Favour Lotachukwu Okolie during a pro-Biafran demonstration in Norway
A man, who claimed to be one of the leaders of Biafra movement, has said that he is afraid of returning back to Nigeria.
He claimed that he is due to be “illegally deported” from Norway to Nigeria, where he fears his life will be in danger because of his activities.
Lotachukwu Favour Okolie in the interview granted to the IBTimes Uk said that he is currently being detained at the Trandum Detention Centre and he believes he will be deported to Nigeria on 9 March.
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“I have been here at the deportation centre for more than one year and I already told them that instead of being deported, I will commit suicide here,” he said.
“I am scared of going back to Nigeria because I am a Biafran leader here in Norway and Nigeria. The Nigerian embassy [in Sweden] does not want to give me travel documents. I am tired of the politics, I am not a criminal, I am an activist. I am still suffering every day.”
The pro-Biafran activist claimed he left Nigeria in 2004 after being supposedly tortured in a jail. According to his friend Okolie was arrested in Nigeria due to his activism and broke out from the Oko prison in Edo state in 2004.
He became the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra in Norway in 2013.
The source also supposed that after Okolie organised a Biafran conference in Oslo in August 2014.
“These individuals demanded Okolie should stop campaigning for Biafra restoration because the Nigerian embassy in Stockholm is aware of him escaping Oko prison,” the source added that Okolie was then arraigned.
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Okolie also told reeporters that he began the pro-Biafran movement ith Nnamdi Kanu, Radio Biafra director and head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), who is currently in DSS custody over standing trial on six counts of treasonable felony charges in Nigeria. Meanwhile, the two leaders, no longer work together.
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