The family of leader of
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has dismissed
claims by Abia Commissioner of Police, Anthony Ogbizi that police
recovered lethal weapons when, in a joint exercise with the Army, raided
their compound at Afara Ukwu on October 8.
Kanu’s family spokesman, Emmanuel
Kanu, told newsmen by telephone that if any weapon found within the premises
must have been planted by security operatives.
The family accused Ogbizi of
fabricating the story to justify the ”illegal raid” and also to appear as
if he was working.
His words: “This new CP was the
same man who came to our house two days after the September 14 invasion with
two Hilux vans and his Prado SUV and pulled down the car porch and destroyed
the vehicles parked outside.
“This same CP hurriedly after the
invasion on the October 8, issued a press release telling the whole world that
they discovered bombs in my house. The army on the other hand, denied that
there was no invasion and that they never went to my house, what a
contradiction.
“A house that there has not been
any person inside except our guard who we asked to look after the house, all of
a sudden they invaded the house and came back to say they found a den gun,
double barrel gun and petrol bomb. Who manufactured them? Who kept them there?
That is the question to ask.”
“The policemen came to our house
and ransacked the entire compound including my mum and my father’s rooms,
removing my mum’s boxes, our TV and generator sets, bags of rice and many
personal belongings without knowing that we had a CCTV recording their
activities in the house.
“But when they got clue about
the CCTV and in order to concoct whatever that they would present to the public
to label our family bad, they came back and removed the CCTV from where they
were hung.
“I am telling the international
community to prevail on this people. What the Police and other security
agencies are doing in my house, my community, in my state and the entire
Biafran Land is evil. It is clear that out of desperation, they are trying to
cover their tracks and they have failed.
“Nobody can tag IPOB a terrorist
organisation. We don’t carry arms and arms never solved any dispute. They
should engage IPOB leadership genuinely. We are not violent. We don’t give life
and we can’t take one. They have rubbished the name of the country called
Nigeria, that’s why we are called Biafrans.
“They invaded the house and took
away the CCTV now they said that they discovered petrol bomb and the rest of
it, when we had only one person in the house. How possible is that? Who planted
them?”
Kanu further stated, “If Ogbizi
was serving in his Cross River State, he wouldn’t have raided the palace of the
Obong of Calabar under any guise the way he raids my father’s palace and
boasted he would raid it again, this can only happen in Igbo land.
“And let me tell you something,
the reason they removed the former CP (Adeleye Oyebade) was that he knew that
IPOB has been non-violent in their activities and he stood on the side of
truth, he refused to be compromised that was why they removed him and brought
this one from Cross River State who is on a mission he will never accomplish.”
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