Nigerian singer Kingsley Okonkwo, popularly acknowledged as Kcee, has stirred conversation after declaring himself a Biafran, insisting that every Igbo particular person falls under the Biafran identification.
Talking right via an interview with Yanga 89.9 FM, Lagos, the singer argued that Biafra want to be understood as a cultural and ethnographical intention similar to Arewa within the North and Oduduwa within the South-West, rather then a separatist trace.
Kcee said, “As a long way as I am fervent, every Igbo man under the sun this day is a Biafran. I am a Biafran. I am an Igbo man and Biafra is the place we’re from. It’s appropriate care for the Arewas and Oduduwas.”
He additional explained the ancient context within the benefit of the title, stressing that it pre-dates this day’s political interpretations.
Based entirely on him, “Biafra used to be created in 1967. Frank Opigo from Bayelsa urged that title for the Igbos and we adopted it in 1967. Previous to 1967, who’re we? Igbos. Being Igbo diagram you is probably going to be tranquil a Biafran.”
Kcee maintained that identifying as Igbo naturally locations an person within the broader Biafran heritage.
Naija Information recalls that on July 17, 2025, an Ebonyi Negate High Court docket sitting in Abakaliki discharged and acquitted the last batch of 24 Biafran agitators standing trial for conspiracy and treason, ending a four-one year-long lawful fight.
The judgment, delivered by Justice I. P. Chima, brings to a discontinuance the cases of 36 pro-Biafra activists who were arrested and remanded in custody on Would maybe 24, 2020. The first place of 12 had been earlier freed in separate rulings.
The freedom fighters, arrested over their alleged involvement in secessionist activities, had been in jail custody since 2020, looking ahead to trial on costs that defence legal professionals enlighten were “recycled and baseless.”
Their launch in July followed a preliminary objection filed by the defence team, which argued that the accused were being subjected to double jeopardy, a violation of Share 36(9) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
The courtroom upheld the argument that under the lawful doctrine of autrefois acquit, no particular person want to be tried all over again for offences for which they had beforehand been discharged and acquitted.
Justice Chima, agreeing with the submissions made by the defence counsel, Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, ordered the instantaneous launch of the 24 detainees from the correctional centre.
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