IPOB Denies Involvement In Arms Snatching in Ebonyi

We the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to state clearly that we known nothing about the alleged snatching of guns in Ebonyi State. The allegation by the Ebonyi State Police Commissioner that our members snatched two AK-47 from Area Commander is unfounded and a total falsehood.

This is another fabrication by the police in their usual characteristics of propaganda and blackmail to disrepute IPOB. We dissociate from the alleged attack as we knew nothing about it.

We have always made it known that our philosophy for Biafra actualization is nonviolent, but any day we want to change that approach we shall make it known. If we want to go into arms struggle we know where to go and source for arms. We won’t defend Biafra with stolen guns from the Nigeria Police. So, linking IPOB with stolen guns in Ebonyi cannot fly. It’s a blatant lie.

We, therefore call on the Police hierarchy in Ebonyi state as well as Gov. Dave Umahi, to immediately halt all the harassment and intimidation of our members and Ebonyi indigenes since the beginning of the ongoing #EndSARS protest. The security agents have been abducting the youths and tagging them armed robbers.

Gov. Dave Umahi has also been collaborating with Miyetti Allah in killing anybody standing against ceding our ancestral lands to Fulani in Ebonyi state. He should stop using security operatives to intimidate our members.
We are particularly upset by the recent arrest of innocent and Peaceful IPOB members and tagging them armed robbers by Dave Umahi and Police Commissioner in Ebonyi state.

IPOB members are not armed robbers and do not indulge in arms struggle right from inception. On Friday of October 2020, the Nigeria Police and Ngbo Central Security Vigilante arrested Mazi Alieze Uchenna, Mazi Agbo Chinonso, Mazi Onwe Okechukwu and Onwe Onyekachi and forced them to admit to allegations of being robbers. They were subsequently charged for robbery.

This continued illegal abduction and kidnapping of innocent people in our land must stop. The Nigeria government and her security operatives should stop testing our will.

We want to place the world on notice that Dave Umahi , has once again instructed Nigeria Police Force, Army and DSS to start house- to- house search of IPOB family members and those suspected to be IPOB supporters in Ebonyi state. Dave Umahi is doing this to help Fulani to conquer Ebonyi State and other parts of Biafraland. This support by Dave Umahi and provocative haunding of our people has continued amid killings, maimings and raping of our mothers and daughters by rampaging Fulani herdsmen in Ebonyi state and other communities in Biafraland which the same security agencies have not only pampered but allowed to continue unabated.

The Nigerian army and police have continued to arrest innocent members of IPOB without provocation while treating Boko Haram terrorists, Bandits, Fulani terrorists herdsmen with kid gloves. Today many Nigeria youths are on the streets and roads of Nigeria and Biafra but security operatives are busy chasing innocent citizens in Biafra land. Biafra agitators have continued to languish in various police detention facilities yet terrorists are being granted state pardon with rehabilitation packages. In all the streets and roads of Nigeria protesting youths are demanding their rights across Nigeria while Nigeria government and her security operatives are busy recruiting thugs to attack them instead of listening to their demands.

We ,therefore, call on Ebonyi State Governor Eng.Dave Umahi and his counterparts in the South East and South South to release Biafra agitators arrested in their respective states without hesitation.

We also call on the UK high Commission in Nigeria, Amnesty International in Nigeria, UK, US Embassy in Abuja, UNDP in Nigeria and other countries high commissions and embassies in Nigeria to prevail on Nigeria Government and these governors to release our people abducted illegally before it becomes too late.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.