A South East Revival Group, SRG,
has accused the Biafra Secret Service, BSS, of unlawful activities in the
region.
The group claimed BSS, is
responsible for the “assassinations of kinsmen opposed to their fluid and
dubious idea of a Biafran state.”
The group maintained that BSS,
which is a militant arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is “infested
with all manner of hardened criminals and deviants” aimed at carrying out their
devious activities.
SRG maintained that BSS members
are the “masterminds of kidnappings/abductions for ransom; armed robbery;
extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of lawlessness
and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.”
The group made the claim in an
open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, on the detestable security threats
of IPOB to the South East.
The letter signed by its National
Co-Ordinator, Comrade Charles Mbani, reads in part, “Your Excellency Sir, the
Southeast Revival Group (SRG) seizes this unique opportunity to formally
welcome you, Mr. President, back to Nigeria from your medical vacation in
London. As patriotic citizens of this great country, we owe you a religious and
moral duty to continue to beseech Almighty God in prayers to ceaselessly grant
you good health and long life to continue to pilot the affairs of our
long-suffering nation to prosperity.
“We have no hesitation electing
upon ourselves as representatives of our people at the lower rung of
leadership, the worthwhile obligation of loudly proclaiming your sterling
leadership qualities. Within two years in the life-span of your administration,
you have rapidly pushed Nigeria unto the path of economic recovery and
prosperity, tackled Boko Haram terrorism and other burgeoning internal
insurgencies. Your undaunted anti-corruption campaigns have begun to instill
sanity in public governance.
“Your Excellency Sir, however, we
wish to draw your attention to a nagging insecurity problem currently
threatening the coherence of the Southeast region, with the potential to
continue to dubiously snatch away the economic fortunes of the region; cause
socio-political dislocation and spark insecurity crisis of regional and
national dimension.
“We hasten to confess that the
despicable agitations presently mounted by secession groups or separatist
movements, domiciled in the Southeast region, in the guise of
self-determination has metamorphosed into criminal gangsterism.
“Your Excellency Sir, you are
aware of the senseless, criminal, unlawful and treasonable operation of a
quasi-sovereignty or a state and a government within the sovereignty of Nigeria
by IPOB’s informal declaration of a “Republic of Biafra”. IPOB did not pause at
this point, but proceeded to the stage of the gradual formation of the organs
of government of the so-called republic, inclusive of the “Biafra Secret
Service”, (BSS). By its conception, design and intendment, BSS is the militant
arm of IPOB, infested with all manner of hardened criminals and deviants. The
national security agencies must have intimated you with the other forms of
aberrations of IPOB in this direction.
“But our investigations into the
activities of BSS have sadly revealed the stark reality that the unregistered
and illegal “security” organization is an assemblage of hitherto scattered
IPOB’s marksmen in isolated criminal gangs, who are now fused to congregate
under a single umbrella. The organization has been empowered by IPOB to launch
the subsisting, pervasive and consistently dreadful and alarming threats to
security in the Southeast region as currently experienced.
“We are perturbed and indeed,
overwhelmed by the persistent violent aggressions and coercive exploits of
IPOB, through its arms and militant wing, the BSS. We suspect strongly that
since BSS is peopled by outlaws, they are responsible for the spate of
assassinations of kinsmen opposed to their fluid and dubious idea of a Biafran
state; its members are the masterminds of kidnappings/abductions for ransom;
armed robbery; extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of
lawlessness and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.
“Your Excellency Sir, we have
cause to worry over these developments in our nation. This is because reliable
information at our disposal suggests that the proceeds from the unlawful
operations of the BSS in crimes around the Southeast region is one of the prime
sources of the funding of IPOB to execute its foreign-backed agenda of
destabilization of Nigeria, manifest in the palpable awesome insecurity, chaos
and anarchy in the region.
“And in the last few months, it
has been observed that IPOB has assumed the monopoly of violence and crimes in
the Southeast region. It is also recruiting left-overs of criminal elements in
the region into its fold, who are assured about the veiled cover of BSS to hide
and audaciously commit heinous crimes against the people, undetected and
un-policed, masked with the garments of secessionists struggles in public
appeal.
“The heightened crimes and
insecurity in the Southeast presently is heavily nourished by these antecedents
of IPOB, which may not abate soon, unless the Federal Government of Nigeria
take decisive actions against IPOB and its criminal affiliates to secure lives
and property in the region.
“Even now, the Southeast region
is under siege by these criminal elements, as everything which gives legitimacy
to life and existence or dignity is fast crumbling or has already crumbled
because of fear of attacks, resulting in death, largely due to the activities
of IPOB. The vibrancy of businesses or economic and civic life in the region is
on its historic lull, as evident in the frequent sit-at-home orders issued by
IPOB leader, which compliance is enforced by members of BSS through
intimidation, coercion and brute force.
“And at such instances,
resistance by any person most often leads to his untimely death in the hands of
IPOB members, much as looting spree goes on unhindered. These have inflicted
enough agony and pains on us and it is getting to intolerable limits of
endurance.
“But before we end our
submissions, may we briefly expand on BSS, the militant wing of IPOB. The
recruitment of jobless agile Nigerian youths into the so-called Secret Service
of the Biafran “security” organization attracts some fee or outright extortion
of money from interested persons. It explains the zeal and mindless quest to
recoup spent funds through the wild criminality. IPOB leader has already
publicized his intention to prevent voters from performing their legitimate
civic duty by participating in the forthcoming governorship elections in
Anambra state. It plots to draft the ragtag army of the BSS to frustrate and
actualize this threat by hook or by crook.
“Generally therefore Sir, we
perceive these acts and dispositions of IPOB as threats from criminal elements
against Nigeria’s democracy and the nation-state. And to further fortify their
actions and garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign
team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging
its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting
lives and property. We fear that failure to checkmate this illegality, the
trend may be replicated in other parts of the country, as the next general
elections in 2019 approaches.
“We therefore plead with Mr.
President never to abandon the Southeast region to these criminal elements who
have activated their media infrastructure to blackmail the Nigerian military
from carrying out its Constitutionally lawful duties as stipulated by the
directives of the Presidency.
Although, the cost of security operations of this
nature is enormous, but we appeal for the extension of the exercise of
“Operation Python Dance II” by a month more, to enable the military embark on
thorough cleansing of the land of criminal gangs.
“Please accept our appreciation
for your listening ears and kind understanding, Sir.”
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