IPOB denies responsibility for attacks on security formations in Igboland
CHIGOZIE AMADI
Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Monday denied responsibility for the attacks on security formations in Igboland stating that the Fulani terrorist herdsmen were responsible for the attacks.
Making the denial through her spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the movement also exonerated its Eastern Securty Network, ESN, from the attacks reiterating that all crimes committed in the zone were perpetrated by the terrorists who masquerade as herdsmen.
“These marauding Fulani herdsmen are responsible for the mass murder of defenceless communities in Nigeria. They are responsible for the mass abductions and rape of women in Nigeria. They are behind the kidnapping for ransom and human organ trafficking in Biafra Land and in Nigeria with murderous Fulani security agents in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, the Nigerian government and her Security Forces tacitly supported the atrocities of the Fulani terrorists by refusing to arrest and prosecute these Fulani mass murderers, rapists and kidnappers. In order to defend the defenseless Biafrans, the IPOB Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in collaboration with IPOB family worldwide established the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in December 2020 as a child of necessity to checkmate the activities of Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen in Biafraland.
” The mandate given to ESN Operatives was to curtail, dislodge, and remove terrorists maiming and destroying Biafran farms and farmers. The ESN Operatives have never deviated from their mandate of protecting Biafra bushes, forests, and people. On the other hand, IPOB as a movement remains non-violent and peaceful in all our activities since the formation of IPOB.
“Any day, IPOB decides to move into armed struggle, the world will know, and the Nigerian government will know as well.
ESN Operatives are not after the Nigerian Security Forces. We know that the Nigerian government sponsors and uses criminal elements and members of their security agencies to commit criminal actions in Biafraland for the purposes of blackmailing IPOB in the global arena.
“The Nigerian government knows those who take responsibility for crimes committed in Biafraland, and those people are neither. IPOB nor ESN, why does the Nigerian government ignore them and accuse ESN and IPOB of what they had no knowledge about? The answer is very simple because it accentuates their strategy which is to attribute every criminal act in Biafraland to the only genuine movement standing between them and their evil agenda to conquer our people and dispossess us of our ancestral lands and heritage.
“This sponsored violent group has repeatedly taken responsibility for the attacks on the Nigerian Security Agencies, yet the Nigerian Government maliciously refuses to call out the perpetrators by their names, instead they tag their violent activities on IPOB. The Nigeria media working in tandem with the Nigerian government establishment will often maliciously label the violent crimes and group as a faction of IPOB, but *IPOB never had and will never have any faction,” the movement affirmed.
It reiterated that no amount of misinformation and blackmail will deter it from the struggle to actualize a Biafran state as it has vowed to free the people from bondage, stating that it is aware of those in the payroll of Nigeria Government to distabilize IPOB’s efforts to actualize Biafran independence.
