Posted on: 05:17 Thu, 11 Feb 2016



The IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr.
Emma Powerful has warned against the
careless killing of its members by security
agents, lamenting that over 1,000 members of
the group have been publicly and secretly killed
since their leader was arrested and detained.

He gave the warning while addressing
newsmen in Nnewi after their meeting to review
their activities and to determine options that
will be followed to check the incessant killing
of the members for engaging in peaceful
protests. “We wonder what these soldiers and
policemen who are killing our innocent
members because they embarked on peaceful
demonstration to demand the unconditional
release of our leader and Director of Radio
Biafra Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, are doing in the South
East when their marksmanship is needed in the
North East to check the activities of the Boko
haram insurgents who are killing people on
daily basis.

Kanu and emptiness of the APC government
“The case of our leader has exposed the
emptiness of APC government in Nigeria and
some ex presidents of Nigeria who are
supporting the extra judicial killing of harmless
IPOB members who have not carried guns or
any dangerous weapons for a day. “If the
present government of APC in Nigeria is
responsible, law abiding, respectful to Nigerian
constitution, and the orders of court of
competent jurisdiction, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu has no
business still being incarcerated.

No IPOB member or anybody should be shot
while engaging in peaceful protest but because
this is a government of frustrated, confused
and power hungry people who never thought
that they will ever lead Nigeria for one day,
they use intimidation to shoot people as if they
are still in the military era. “We know the
activities of a former president of Nigeria who
has been visiting and interacting with the Abia
State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, on how to
deal with IPOB members in Abia state.

The former President has been romancing with
the APC and we are looking forward to seeing
him declaring for APC. Let him be bold enough
to do that instead of working with Abia state
Governor to push out IPOB members for their
pay masters in APC. We know their role in the
killing of our members and very soon we will
ask them questions.

“We must make sure that all the past and
present Nigerian presidents who are killing our
members extra judicially are tried for genocide.

The international community is watching.

They
should remember what happened to the former
President of Liberia and his Ivorian counterpart
who were killing people while in office, and now
nemesis has caught up with them.

They are answering questions on the people
they killed and the same thing will happen to
these heartless Nigerian leaders who are not
anything better than the Boko Haram
insurgents because of their approval and order
to the security agencies to shoot at sight, IPOB
and other Biafra agitators and people who
embark on protest to air their grievances,” he
said.

The directorate of Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB said it has adopted self-defence mode as
enshrined by the relevant acts and declarations
of the United Nations, UN, with effect from
Wednesday, February 10, this year.

In a press statement issued yesterday, entitled:
“Persistent attacks on Biafrans by the Nigerian
state: Our rights to self-defence is not
activated”, IPOB explained that if Biafrans
commence its self-defence, “let no country or
world leader attempt to tag us as terrorists
because we are not terrorists, rather we are
fighting for our survival and from being
exterminated from the surface of the earth.”

In the statement jointly signed by their
spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford
Iroanya, IPOB vowed that they will henceforth
defend themselves with everything and
anything necessary to avoid “the continuous
killing of our mothers, fathers, and children.”

According to the statement, “This is the time
for all Biafrans to rise and defend themselves.

We cannot fold our arms and watch anybody
kill us the second time after killing over two
million of us in 1968. We have fully and totally
activated our rights to self defence.”