The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has reacted to the proposed plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
government to grant amnesty to members of Boko Haram.
The IPOB said such a move was a
confirmation that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government was in a
collaboration with the terrorist group.
It also called on well meaning
people “to seek the reaction of Chief Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the
South East governors that proscribed peaceful IPOB on this issue of Boko Haram
amnesty, as well as their take on the supposed release without trial of killers
of Igbo people at Mubi and Madala, among others.”
This was part of a statement
yesterday by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful.
The group wondered if it was not
the same insurgents the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed claimed
had been defeated.
The statement reads, “How come
they are negotiating permanent ceasefire with Boko Haram? Are we now to believe
that Boko Haram was not defeated in the first place?
“It is not a surprise to us that
the President Buhari- led APC government is now seeking to acknowledge publicly
what they have been doing in secret all along, which is, granting early release
and amnesty to confirmed killers and terrorists.
“There is something about the
mindset of this administration that predisposes it to killers and terrorists.
“What this move confirms, even to
the most ardent supporters of the government, is that Boko Haram is part and
parcel of the present government.
“President Buhari appears to have
a deep affinity with the tendencies of Boko Haram, the same way he has become
beholden to killer herdsmen that are decimating innocent non Muslim populations
across the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria.
“Boko Haram’s well documented
atrocities propelled Buhari into office and so, he is reciprocating that very
gesture now through this amnesty, in the hope that a comprehensive agreement
with the terror group will guarantee him a second term.
“As long as politicians from
Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt were still divided in their respective
approaches to the issue of Nigeria’s existence, the core north would continue
to take advantage of the one Nigeria mindset to perpetuate impunity whilst in
government.
“The silence of these groups
namely, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South Eastern Governors, who themselves conspired
to invite the Nigerian military to commit mass murder in Afaraukwu Umuahia,
Ngwa, Aba and Igweocha (Port Harcourt) means they should bury their heads in
shame.
“The same Hausa- Fulani rulers
they were desperately trying to please by proscribing IPOB activities are now
the same people setting free ,killers of Igbo people in the north without the
courtesy of mere consultation to seek their opinion.
“Hausa- Fulani leadership is busy
protecting those that killed Igbos in the name of Islam, while Igbo politicians
and Ohanaeze Ndigbo are busy helping the same north to kill their own people
who are non-violently fighting for their freedom.
“Where is therefore, the morality
in the stance of Nnia Nwodo, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Dave Umahi, Willie
Obiano, Rochas Okorocha and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi against IPOB? Let the people and
posterity judge them”, IPOB said.
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