OlusholaOmogbehin
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has been given honorary citizenship of Georgia, a state in the United States.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued the proclamation on January 16, 2026, and formally presented on January 23, 2026, in Milledgeville, Georgia, by State Representative Gab Okoye.
The formal proclamation reads: “I, Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of the State of Georgia, do hereby proclaim Nnamdi Okwu Kanu as an Honorary Georgia Citizen.
“May this Outstanding Citizen be accorded every courtesy as a Goodwill Ambassador from Georgia in his travels to other states, to nations beyond the borders of the United States of America, or wherever he may hereafter travel or reside.”
Uche Ajulu-Okeke, a former Nigerian Consul General in South Africa, received the certificate on behalf of Kanu as he described him as “Africa’s most famous political prisoner and global prisoner of conscience.”
Kanu is currently serving a life prison sentence at the Sokoto Prison after he was convicted on terrorism charges filed against him by the Nigerian government.
Kanu was abducted in Kenya in 2021 and extradited to Nigeria under controversial circumstances during the administration of the late President Muhammadu Buhari.
