{"id":57760,"date":"2018-06-20T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/?p=57760"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:46:42","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-biography-wife-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/nnamdi-kanu-biography-wife-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu – The Rise of the IPOB Leader, His Wife, and Recent Whereabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nnamdi Kenny Okwu Kanu, or simply known as Nnamdi Kanu (born 25 September 1967), is a Nigerian political activist based in the United Kingdom. He is the leader of one of the several Biafran separatist organizations, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and the director of a London-based radio station, Radio Biafra. To many Nigerians, Nnamdi Kanu is a troublemaker, while many Biafran supporters believe he is their hero and leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nnamdi Kanu was born in Isiama Afara, Abia State, Nigeria sometime in the 1970s. His father HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu (JP) (a traditional ruler) and his mother Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu raised him in Umuahia.\u00a0He is the first of five children and the first son of his father.\u00a0He attended Library Avenue Primary School (now part of Government House, Umuahia) and went to Government College for his secondary education. Later, Nnamdi Kanu gained admission to the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) but was forced to leave\u00a0for Europe in order to finish his studies, following delays occasioned by incessant strikes by the university\u2019s academic and non-academic staff.<\/p>\n Being an individual who has a voracious appetite for historical books, Nnamdi Kanu\u00a0knows so much about the history of Nigeria. Having discovered that the various\u00a0ethnic groups and tribes in Nigeria are of different cultures, religions, beliefs and different understanding of life, he believes that every Nigerian ethnic group is\u00a0different in every way, and are not meant to be together as a nation.<\/p>\n Also, believing his people, the Igbo tribe, are marginalized by the federal government of Nigeria,\u00a0Nnamdi Kanu took interest in fighting for the restoration of Biafra, a nation for\u00a0the Igbo people.<\/p>\n According to Kanu’s father, Nnamdi Kanu finally decided to fight for Biafra<\/a> by himself after it was discovered that\u00a0Ralph Uwazuruike (former leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Biafra), was allegedly collecting money from the Nigerian government, in the name of the pro-Biafra struggle, for personal\u00a0aggrandizement at the expense of the Biafran struggle.<\/p>\n Nnamdi Kanu, being a fighter of the people seriously condemned this and as you would expect, Uwazuruike felt he was challenging him and decided to fight back. The result of this altercation culminated in the formation of IPOB<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kanu’s\u00a0rise to fame and popularity started in 2015 when he was arrested\u00a0in\u00a0his hotel room at\u00a0Golden Tulip Essential Hotel Ikeja,\u00a0Lagos State\u00a0by Nigeria\u2019s secret police – the Department of State Services (DSS). His\u00a0solicitors, in a press briefing, said that between 14th and 17th October 2015, their client\u2019s whereabouts was unknown until 18th of October, 2015, when the Press broke the news of his arrest and detention by the SSS in\u00a0Abuja.<\/p>\n The news of the arrest of Mr. Kanu\u00a0led to a\u00a0mass protest across different parts of the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones.<\/p>\n On October 19, 2015, it was reported that Nnamdi Kanu had been granted bail\u00a0after a secret arraignment at the Magistrate Court, Wuse 11.\u00a0However, the bail seemed “controversial” and there were claims the DSS announced the bail only “to calm the angry people of Biafra”.<\/p>\n Although the bail conditions were stringent, Kanu’s lawyer said they eventually met the requirements in full. However, upon the issuance of Form 36, the order came back unsuccessful. They were unable to produce the prisoner.\u00a0The lawyer, Vincent Obetta, called Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention despite meeting his bail conditions “a clash between judiciary and executive” in a democratic Nigeria.<\/p>\n Kanu was finally arraigned on November 23, 2015, in an Abuja Magistrate Court for the first time on charges of “criminal conspiracy, intimidation, and membership to an illegal organization. After prolonged detention, he was released in 2017 amidst many controversies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nnamdi Kanu is married to Uchechi Kanu and on Tuesday, January 5th, 2016,\u00a0while still in detention, their union was blessed with a baby boy who was delivered in an undisclosed hospital.<\/p>\nNnamdi Kanu’s Childhood and Early Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n
He Educated Himself in the History of Nigeria, Igbo Tribe, and the Biafran War<\/strong><\/h3>\n
His Arrest Was Shrouded In Many Controversies<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Meet His Wife Uchechi Okwu Kanu<\/b><\/h2>\n