Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was apprehended and repatriated to Nigeria through an “unconventional” operation of the Nigerian Security and Intelligence agencies, Checkout Magazine learnt.
According to The Nation, the arrest was planned and executed by the Nigerian Security and Intelligence agencies. It was coordinated by the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA).
The NIA, which is the external arm of Nigeria’s security intelligence, lured the separatist campaigner from his base in London to another country from where he was “intercepted” and whisked to Abuja in a chattered jet. Sources gave conflicting names of the country where he was arrested.
Kanu’s arrest and repatriation was executed without informing the foreign mission in Nigeria because it came to them as a shock.
The Nation quoted a source to have said: “The security agencies got intelligence report that Kanu was out of London and they quickly activated the arrest plan. The whole process was unconventional. He was with a woman in a hotel when he was picked up and brought to Nigeria.
“Intelligence agencies had trailed him to Britain and Germany (where his brother lives) but they could not get him until he jetted out to a South American country. He had scheduled a rendezvous in a hotel with a woman.
“All I can tell you is that he was “picked up” and brought to face justice. This is why the government has repeatedly claimed that Kanu was intercepted. No envoy of Nigeria participated in the operation.
“The unconventional method was realisable because Kanu has been watch-listed by the Federal Government through the International Police (INTERPOL) having jumped bail.”
