The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), image maker, Emma Powerful, said Monday that IPOB and its security operative, Eastern Security Network, ESN, contributed immensely to the curbing of sponsored armed militias in the Southeast zone.
“Our aim of forming ESN outfit was to safeguard our territory from the marauding Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen in our bushes and forests in Biafraland. In their effort to blackmail IPOB, Nigeria government and their polititcians sponsored criminal armed groups in the East to create insecurity so as to blame IPOB and ESN, including making money from Federal Government like the Imo State Supreme Court Administrator, Hope Uzodinma, does in Imo State. But our people now know the truth and they commend ESN for securing our farm lands.
“Today many of our bushes are safe and secure and our farmers are happily going to farms without the threat of being butchered like wild animals or raped in their farmlands. IPOB is applying diplomatic and strategic moves in handling the barrage of blackmail and media propaganda against us by the Nigeria government. Nigeria government unlawfully proscribed IPOB and tagged us terrorists for seeking Self Determination of our territory. When we sued them over the proscription, they have refused to come to answer the case and charges in their own court.
“However, the International govermental bodies and other countries in the world know us as a peaceful and non violent movement seeking for freedom of our people.
Nigeria Government has lost any legal ground to stop Biafra agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members worldwide. Nigeria Government is still working hard to brand IPOB as a violent movement before the International Community.
“Fortunately for us, this is the information age, not 1967. International Community have their Intellegent sources who give them accurate information devoid of Nigeria government’s propaganda. Despite their proscription, arrests, torture, and forceful abductions in Nigeria, IPOB still maintain good reputation with the International Community.
“What infiltrators, sabotures, agent of provocateur and others who were paid to tarnish IPOB’s reputation don’t understand is that, violent movements usually don’t get a round table discussion or audience with the International Community. Have you ever seen any terrorist group having legal representation and engaging with global audiences? We have global attention because we are not violent, neither are we terrorists as Nigeria government unjustly tagged us,” he stated.
He added further that anybody killing, kidnapping, and snatching cars, collecting ramson in the name of doing it for IPOB or Nnamdi, is an enemy and has no part with IPOB struggle to restore Biafra, even as he stressed the need for all to join hands with IPOB to root out both sponsored and individual criminals in Biafran land.
According to him the good relationship IPOB has maintained with the International Community despite all the heavy lobbying against it is a major problem for Nigeriia which prompted it till today to accuse some countries of supporting IPOB to destabilize Nigeria.
He urged Biafrans to continue to maintain the peaceful agitation because the International community has refused the proscription of IPOB as a violent or a terrorist organisation, even as according to him, till today the Nigeria government is still hunting and supplying fake information and evidence to the International Community to justify their terrorist tag on IPOB.
“Now you understand why when criminals are awry they will tag them IPOB; when their military kill innocent citizens, they tag them IPOB; if they arrest a prostitute they will add a Biafra flag to the picture and tag her IPOB; when Boko haram kill Nigerian military in the North, they will accuse IPOB of being responsible. All efforts to tarnish the image of our movement has turned against them, and we are still gaining higher grounds in our Independence movement,” he affirmed.
He urged Bafrans to rejoice as Biafra freedom is coming, pointing out that no man born of a woman can stop it, no matter the amount of support they get from the enemy, Nigeria government and politicians to stop the process which IPOB layed out to extricate Biafra from the shackles of the Nigeria State.
