IPOB Press Release
December 06 2024 | IPOB
The noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to debunk the falsehood and concocted propaganda peddled to the public by the murderous Nigerian Army that their troop and their other murderous group called UDO-KA stationed in the South East Region killed 4 IPOB and ESN members in a forest at Umuaku Isuochi, Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State.
The Nigerian Army is committing silent genocide against innocent Biafrans in their quest to blackmail and demonize IPOB before the international community. Since 2021, the Nigerian government recruited criminals to destabilize the South East Region and to tag their violent activities on IPOB. The Nigerian Army has invaded an uncountable number of communities and villages in the South East, murdered innocent civilians, and tagged their victims murders on IPOB or ESN.
IPOB members are not violent, nor are they terrorists. In the same way, ESN operatives have never indulged in any form of criminality nor are involved in any destructive activities that can cause the land of Biafra and Ndigbo any harm. Instead, IPOB and ESN members have been at the forefront of providing security against the marauding Fulani terrorists against Ndigbo. One must wonder why the Nigerian government and her murderous military are against IPOB and ESN, who are deterring the Fulanis terrorist’s onslaught against the Igbos? Is it not obvious that the Nigerian government and her murderous military are the sponsors and accomplices to the Fulani terrorists’ attacks in many parts of Nigeria, including in ala Igbo?
The Nigerian Army have been silently murdering Igbo youths and calling them IPOB members or ESN Operatives. What have IPOB and ESN done that warrants Nigerian murderous Security Forces to be murdering innocent Igbo youths in their efforts to depopulate and even exterminate Igbos into extinction from Igbo Land. Ndigbo are not terrorists. The Nigerian Army has invaded some communities and burnt many houses down in their effort to blackmail IPOB.
The recent claim of killing 4 IPOB and ESN Operatives at a forest in Isuochi is another lie because there was no record of confrontation between ESN and the Nigerian Army. More so, ESN does not have camp in the said location. If the claims of killing 4 Igbo men and women by the Nigerian Army is true, the Nigerian Army has just killed innocent people. Those murdered are innocent Igbo people. That is to confirm the furthering of the silent genocide being committed by the Nigerian Army against Ndigbo.
There is no ESN camp attacked anywhere in Biafra Land. More so, no IPOB member was killed recently by the Nigerian murderous Army. Therefore, the notorious military operation and genocidists called “Operation UDO-KA” should stop their silent genocide against Ndigbo. Also, they should stop dishing out fake news to defame IPOB. All the genocide against innocent Biafrans by the notorious Nigerian military operations are just to deceive the public into believing that they are helping to quell insecurity in the South East Region, but in reality, the more the Nigerian government militarizes the South East Region, the more insecurity is on the rise. We have maintained that the Nigerian Security Forces, particularly DSS, Army, and Police are the main architects of insecurity in the South East Region.
The Nigerian Security Forces were responsible for recruiting criminals and for the influx of Fulani terrorists into the South East Region in order for the government to have reasons to attack, blackmail, and defame IPOB and ESN Operatives. This is why you rarely see the Nigerian Security Forces arrest the Fulani terrorists even when they are given security intelligence on the impending Fulani attack. Instead, they always blame IPOB or ESN when they engage the same criminals they hired.
The Directorate of State, DOS of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is calling on the Nigerian Army to cease and desist from blackmailing IPOB and ESN when they kill innocent Biafran citizens. We are not criminals nor terrorists to be killed like animals. IPOB and ESN are a disciplined freedom movement fighting only in self-defence to protect Biafrans and for self-preservation.
The Nigeria government and her murderous Security Forces have done all to destroy and criminalize IPOB and ESN to no avail. We have maintained discipline in the struggle for Biafra Independence, irrespective of all that the Nigerian government has done to provoke us. The demand for self-determination and call for a Biafra Referendum by IPOB are lawful and inalienable rights. Instead of the Nigerian government to grant Biafrans a chance to have a UN supervised referendum, they have visited Biafrans with illegal abductions, deaths, destruction, and even genocide. IPOB remains resolute and will not be intimidated into silence or retreat.
The murderous Nigerian Security Forces invade Biafran villages, abduct youths, displace the villagers, loot their properties, and burn down their houses in the communities in the pretence of searching for Biafra agitators. Nigerian Army is a threat to Ndigbo, particularly those in rural communities. This ought to stop.
IPOB, therefore, calls on the international community to advise the Nigerian government to stop terrorizing Ndigbo and IPOB members for seeking Biafra’s self-determination. The call for a UN supervised referendum is not a call for war.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: IPOB
