Nnamdi kanu has been declared wanted.
The leader of the secessionist group; the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), reportedly went into hiding after the Nigerian military declared IPOB as a terrorist organisation.
Kanu has however been declared wanted alongside three other IPOB members with the name; Anthony Anyakoha Tony, Ifeanyi Chukwu and Chika Uchechukwu.
Some sources hinted that that Kanu might have gone underground with the aide of the three culprits whom have since been declared wanted alongside the secessionist group.
The movement wants a group of states in south-east Nigeria, made up mainly of people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away and form the independent nation of Biafra.
The plan is not new. In 1967 Igbo leaders declared a Biafran state, but after a brutal civil war, which led to the deaths of up to a million people, the secessionist rebellion was defeated.
But the idea of separatism has bubbled away since then and Mr Kanu is the latest in a line of Biafran activists taking up the cause.
He was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and broadcast to Nigeria from London.
Though he grew up in Nigeria’s south-east and went to the University of Nsukka, Mr Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.
Soon after setting up Ipob, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence. In some of his comments, he urged Biafrans to take up arms against the Nigerian state.
Ipob claims these existing states would make up an independent Biafra.
First republic of Biafra was declared by Nigerian military officer Odumegwu-Ojukwu in 1967. He led his mainly ethnic Igbo forces into a deadly three-year civil war that ended in 1970. More than one million people lost their lives, mostly because of hunger.
Decades after Biafra uprising was quelled by the military, secessionist groups have attracted the support of many young people. They feel Nigeria’s central government is not investing in the region. But the government says their complaints are not particular to the south-east part of the country.
The Ipob leader Kanu has described himself as an Igbo Jew, part of a group who believe they are descendants of the lost tribe of Israel who settled in West Africa.
