Finally, Nnamdi Kanu opens up on how he escaped during military invasion of his father’s compound

September 10th 2017 is a day that the people of Isiama Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North local government area of Abia State will not forget in a hurry.

For members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the family of His Royal Highness, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, it is a day of mixed feelings.

It will continue to be so for them because reports have it that the Pro-Biafra group lost many of their members and supporters.

It will also be a day to celebrate as their leader and son, Nnamdi Kanu escaped death but the whiskers.

For the Afaraukwu community, it is day and will continue to be a day that reminds them of the unannounced horrific rain of bullets in their community which pierced their zincs and walls.

For the Nigerian Army, missing capturing or killing the leader of IPOB will continue to regret; not accomplishing their mission successfully as their target escaped in the melee.

While there has been a lot of stories about the escape of Kanu from the scene and Nigeria even when his passport is in the custody of the Court including the use of mystical powers, disguising like a woman and among other stories of his escape, others are however of the opinion that it is only Nnamdi Kanu that can tell the true story of his miraculous escape during the invasion of his father’s compound by soldiers.

Two years after the unfortunate incident that led to the death of someone many IPOB faithful and Nnamdi Kanu’s loyalists, Kanu, has finally revealed how he escaped from Nigeria when his father’s compound during the military operation.

Kanu who was featured in Independent UK Newspaper disclosed that they rented a boat and departed Nigeria from a small town in Ukwa East LGA called Azumini.

According to Kalu, the choice of Azumini is simply because it would be the last place the Nigerian Army or any other security agency could have imagined he can escape from.

He further revealed that he was gravely injured and in need of constant medical attention while trying to get to Israel.

He noted that from Benin, he travelled by road to Senegal, a distance of nearly 2,000 kilometres

He said : “Eventually we were able to rent a boat on the coast. We left from a small town in Abia, Azumiri, an unobtrusive place where the Nigerian authorities might not have thought to look.”

“We planned to go to the Republic of Benin, just west of Nigeria. For 14 days we travelled in dangerous seas in a small boat with an outboard motor.”

“The Atlantic off that coast is heavy, stormy, treacherous. On more than one occasion waves threatened to swamp our little craft.”

“I was still gravely injured and in need of constant medical attention. At one point we put ashore to find ice to keep the medication I needed chilled. It was a dangerous time. I stayed hidden in a room while my companions went foraging for supplies.”

“From Benin I travelled by road to Senegal, a distance of nearly 2,000 kilometres. Once in Senegal I was able to make arrangements to travel to Israel. None of these journeys was easy.”

“I was still in pain and the threat from Nigerian agents abroad never went away. When we stopped to rest on the road, I couldn’t go out.”

“My world was shrunk to a room with a window, and sometimes not even that. I might as well have been in prison.”

“Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, all the countries I had to pass through rely economically on Nigeria, their governments corrupt enough to arrest me and send me back. I had to stay silent, unknown.”

“I couldn’t even tell my wife or family where I was, just in case they became targets. It was agonising to realise that they didn’t know if I was dead or alive.”

“Israel was a haven for me, but it took over a year to get there, and only then did I feel confident enough to let my fellow IPOB family members and immediate family know I was safe.”