FG Establishes Foreign Nations, National Assembly Member, Behind Kanu, Igboho Funding

By Ayodele Oni

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said on Friday that the Federal Government has established that the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho, and leader of Indigenious People’s of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, are being funded from within and outside Nigeria.

The Minister said specifically that Igboho derived his funding from a member of the National Assembly.

According to him, a report by a Security Ccommittee constituted by the Federal Government also revealed that Igboho, allegedly, received funding from a firm, allegedly being probed for terrorism financing activities.

Malami declared: “It might be recalled that the firm, and its promoter are suspects in the on-going Joint Terrorist Financing Investigation.”

The Minister emphasised that the firm and one of its owners, is by way of financial transaction, connected to one Surajo Abubakar Muhammad (who was sentenced to life imprisonment in UAE on charges of financing terrorism (Boko Haram).

The Attorney General further disclosed that the Committee also made damning discovery about the activities of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and his following, noting that there were information that Kanu was receiving support from both within and outside Nigeria.

“We have also established that Kanu is not alone in his subversive activities.

“He has accomplices in Nigeria and abroad, individuals and groups as well as state and non-state actors who are aiding and facilitating his campaign against the people and state of Nigeria.

“Some of the state actors aided Kanu, even as a fugitive, in his destructive mission, ignoring the terrorist nature of his activities.

“We call on these countries to desist from aiding subversive acts by Kanu and IPOB against the state of Nigeria and its people.”