‘Your lies, blackmail will not distract us’, IPOB tells Nigerian govt, security agencies
by ebor cletus ralph jr
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed Igbo secessionist organisation, has informed the Nigerian government and security agencies that no amount of lies and extortion used against it will prevent the group from attaining its goals.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Biafra agitators claimed that the Nigerian government and its security forces had colluded with criminals to employ blackmail to force them to abandon their campaign for the restoration of Biafra.
In a statement, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, claims to have learned that security officers were responsible for burning down INEC offices and engaging in other atrocious actions in the South-East before accusing IPOB and its militia affiliate, the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
“The claim by the Nigerian federal government and its security agencies that IPOB is involved in the burning of INEC facilities, owning a bomb factory, and destruction of electoral party paraphernalia in Biafraland, are all aimed at our image.
“It is an obvious fact that the Nigerian government and its compromised security agencies are working with the criminals to blackmail IPoB because we have refused to give up on the Biafra restoration agitation. They set INEC offices on fire and turn around to claim it is ESN.
“They assassinate politicians, opponents and medical practitioners and turn around to claim it was IPOB just to damage our hallowed name, but we refuse to be distracted. We have uncovered their plan to rig the elections in the southeast against Peter Obi and blame it on IPOB and ESN.
“That was the same way they burnt markets and different properties of our people and tagged it on IPoB. They declared a 5-day ignored sit-at-home and killed our people and even killed a pregnant mother using IPOB and ESN name.
“We know their daily evil activities and will continue to expose them. They are in disarray because we uncover their evil activities before they are carried out,” the statement said.
