A socio-activist group, Igbos for
Nigeria Movement, INM, has identified Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of
IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu as the face allegedly behind the recent Monkey Pox
vaccine hoax in the South East region of the country.
The group also urged the Federal
Government through law enforcement agencies to stop IPOB from continuing to
create panic across the country even after it has been outlawed as a terrorist
organization.
INM further demanded a thorough
investigation of any financial transactions between Igbos people in government
and IPoB since this would amount to financing terrorism.
Mazi Ifeanyi Igwe, National
President of Igbos for Nigeria Movement, who spoke in Abuja on Wednesday,
lamented that the latest round of propaganda by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful,
has done untold damage to the Igbo cause with his allegation that soldiers were
forcefully injecting students with virus as the fear of vaccines createED by
the hoax could potentially make parents avoid lifesaving vaccinations.
He called relevant security
agencies to unravel the true identity of whoever is posing as Emma Powerful
since no such entity has ever come forward at any of the various fora that had
convened to discuss the marginalization of the Igbo nation.
According to him, “The brazen way
whoever this character is continues to tell lies that terrorizes the populace,
especially Igbos, is because he is using a fake identity. Look at the trauma he
put parents through in the southeast with the hoax about the Monkey Pox virus
and how soldiers were injecting school children with it, which turned out to be
false but the panic spread across the whole place nonetheless. Now in future,
parents will be reluctant to vaccinate their children against diseases like
measles, polio and other preventable childhood killer diseases; it is Igbo
children that will die as a result of this mischief of spreading fake news.
“The source of the fake news has
been established as IPOB’s spokesperson, who goes by the alias of Emma
Powerful. He signed the statements asking parents to take their children from
school alleging that soldiers were forcefully ejecting pupils with killer
viruses. It was the same terrorist that has been inciting IPOB members to
attack anyone that goes out to vote in Anambra State governorship election in
November. A large chunk of IPOB’s hate messages come from this faceless
individual.
“The thing that is even more of
concern is that it has been said severally that there is nobody like ‘Emma
Powerful’ who is merely an alias for Emmanuel Kanu, the junior brother to that
fugitive from justice and IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
“It will interest you to note
that in the hours and days after IPOB members confronted soldiers on Operation
Python Dance II, if one compares the utterances and interviews by Emmanuel Kanu
with statements by Emma Powerful the conclusion would be to challenge law
enforcement agencies to repeat the same exercise and arrive at their own
conclusions.
“I therefore call on the relevant
law enforcement agencies to draw on the relevant provisions of the anti-terrorism
legislations in the country to unmask the identity of Emma Powerful to end his
reign of terror that has caused unnecessary panic in our states,” Igwe
demanded.
He noted that the federal government, the military and security services owe
Nigerians explanations on how it was possible that a group that has been
designated a terrorist organization by the court in line with the
anti-terrorism law continues to issue statements like a legal entity.
Igwe further accused governors of
the five southeast states of playing to the gallery with their proscription of
IPoB since the group continue to freely operate in their jurisdictions after
the proscription including issuing the statement that caused panic with a
warning that a state of emergency may eventually be declared in the region
because of their lukewarm attitude.
Meanwhile, the National President
of Igbos For Nigeria Movement warned that IPOB will not stop causing problems
in the southeast if certain political office holders and top businessmen do not
stop funding the outlawed terror group.
He stressed that law enforcement
agents must immediately conduct a thorough investigation of any financial
transactions between Igbo people in government and IPOB since this would amount
to aiding and abetting terrorism financing.
“The information we are getting
about the extent of financing available to IPoB is worrisome because any group
with that much money can easily destabilize any geo-political zone of the
country. I do not expect that the Federal Government continues to allow this
kind of criminal financing to continue since it is those of us from the
southeast that will suffer the consequences if these people successfully
implement their evil plot,” he said.
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