The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday, denied
responsibility for the recent murder of soldiers and security operatives in
Anambra State.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, accused the Nigerian Army
of linking the group to the murder of soldiers and security agents due to
hatred for the Igbo people and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra agitation.
Powerful urged the Nigerian Army to desist from spreading
propaganda and blackmailing IPOB.
Reacting to a viral video of soldiers linking IPOB to the
alleged murder of security agents in Enugu and Anambra States, Powerful
stressed that the separatist group is a peaceful movement.
A statement by Powerful reads: “In view of the recent
alleged murder of four Nigeria soldiers in Enugu State, as well as those in
Anambra State which were accompanied by the most reckless and senseless
accusations against IPOB as being behind the attacks, it has become very
imperative to caution the Nigerian Arny and govt to desist from such unfounded
and false accusations against the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). One of
such irresponsible and false accusation is contained in a viral video from
Nigerian Army personnel who was heard openly mentioning IPOB by name in the
said video trending online.
“It is a common phenomenon that Nigeria Government and their
Security Agencies are quick to point accusing fingers at IPOB within minutes of
any attack in the East without investigation. Surprisingly, they haven’t linked
IPOB to the insecurity ravaging Northern Nigeria. We understand that these are
part of their cheap blackmail against the movement, even when the State
mastermind most of these attacks. If the Government is not behind the attacks
how come they know the attackers within minutes without investigation? How come
they cannot predict the many unresolved murder cases in Nigeria?
“We, the global movement and family of the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of the liberator Mazi Nnamdi
Okwuchukwu KANU condemn the reckless murder of Nigeria soldiers but at the same
time caution the Nigeria Army to stop accusing IPOB members falsely. We are not
responsible for the attacks and killings.
“Nigeria Army and their Government are only carrying out
propaganda and blackmail against IPOB in an effort to stop the Biafra
agitation, but they will fail. Nigeria Government and their Court know that
IPOB is not involved in the killings and attacks on Security Agents and its
Institutions. That is why no Court in Nigeria has been able to convict any of
the prosecuted IPOB members. Yet the Nigeria Government has continued
arresting, persecuting, and extrajudicially executing IPOB members while
unconditionally releasing and compensating Northern terrorists and bandits.
“We have remained a peaceful movement seeking for freedom
and Independence of the Biafra people in spite of all the persecutions and
provocations at the hand of the Nigeria State. But we shall not take any
blackmail from the Government just because they hate our resolve to get Biafra
at all cost but most importantly through peaceful agitation.
“The Nigerian Army must stop linking IPOB with the killing
of their men because of their evil agenda and hatred against Ndigbo and Biafra
agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members.
“By tagging every Igbo man and woman as IPOB and ESN
members, the Nigerian govt and its security apparatus have created the enabling
ground to justify their ongoing extrajudicial executions of Igbo people which
simply amount to ethnic cleansing. Moreso, their decision to make some of their
soldiers on duty in Biafra land expendables to achieve their evil plan and
justify their military siege and assault to the unarmed people is a
State-sponsored terrorism. The more the Nigerian terrorist-sponsoring
Government and their compromised Army try hard to blackmail IPOB, the more they
rub their integrity in the mud.
“The viral video of the Nigeria Army personnel openly
accusing IPOB of being responsible for the death of four of their men in Enugu
State recently is nothing but a cheap blackmail. We demand an International and
independent investigation on all the killings going on in Biafraland so as to
unmask the killers and their sponsors.”
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