IPOB suspends Kanu's younger brother for gross misconduct

• Published date: 24 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Pro-separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has suspended Kingsley Kanu, younger brother of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

The younger Kanu's suspension was announced in a statement signed by the National Coordinator of the group in Germany, Collins Chinedu and issued by IPOB's spokesman Emma Powerful.

The group accused the younger Kanu of indulging in anti-IPOB activities with the aim of bringing the IPOB family in Germany into disrepute and by extension, disorganising the larger IPOB family worldwide.

Kingsley is also accused of insubordination to IPOB leadership, forming a parallel leadership in Germany and floating the group's code of conduct.

The body said Kingsley has been using his affiliation to its leader, Nnamdi, to an unmerited super advantage and has been placing himself above IPOB rules and regulations guiding the noble IPOB in Germany and worldwide.

It noted that Kingsley is an ordinary unit member of the IPOB in Landsberg Am Lech, Germany.

The other offences against him, according to the statement, are: 'Kingsley has been in the habit of flagrantly flouting every IPOB code of conduct, thereby seeing himself as above the law and often throwing every decorum to the winds.

'Reporting a fellow hardworking IPOB member to the German Criminal Police, contrary to IPOB Code of Conduct and in violation of his oath to the IPOB.

'Issuing orders to...