The Indigenous People of Biafra has denied claims that it is planning to force people of the region to resign from the Nigerian security agencies.
This is as IPOB accused the Nigerian army of stage managing the alleged abduction of one of their soldiers to blackmail the group.
The pro-Biafra group in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful entitled “Nigerian Army staged their own officer’s abduction to IPoB,” said that the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Police can go to any length and do anything to blackmail IPOB, saying that it appeals to the conscience of Ndigbo not forcing them to say anything.
IPOB’s statement read, “The Directorate of State, DoS, of the noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu wish to debunk the Nigerian Army’s concocted propaganda against the peaceful and unarmed IPoB activists.
“The Nigerian Army claim that IPoB abducted a Nigeria soldier sent to Biafra land to spy on the Biafra movement, and forced him to call for the resignation of Biafran soldiers in the Nigerian Army is a lie from the pit of hell.
“The propaganda from the Nigerian Army spokesperson claiming that IPoB captured a spying Nigerian soldier and forced him to deliver a message to the Biafran soldiers serving in the Nigerian Army to resign is a self-staged crime by the Nigerian Army’s leadership.
“Though IPoB has in the past called for Biafrans serving in the Nigerian security agencies to resign, IPoB has never forced and will never force our brothers and sisters in the Nigeria security agencies to resign their positions. IPoB can only appeal to the conscience of Biafrans, but will never impose anything on anyone under gunpoint or duress.
“The Biafra Nation IPoB is championing, which is a nation where the rights of persons are guaranteed and respected, not as obtainable in a lawless and irredeemable zoological republic called Nigeria, guides our people through reasoning.
“The so-called video of an abducted spying soldier captured and forced to call for the resignation of Biafran soldiers from the Nigerian Army is another false flag operation by the Nigerian Army and their agent provocateurs to continue their murderous onslaught against Ndigbo.
“The Nigerian Army has reduced themselves to a mere social media gossip. IPoB did not abduct any Nigerian soldier. The Army spokesman should stop linking IPoB to their criminal agents in their efforts to destabilize Alaigbo.
“IPoB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have no relationship with the so-called Biafra Liberation Army. IPoB does not have any army and will never have an army until Biafra is restored. IPoB only operates the Eastern Security Network, ESN, which is a Vigilante group working against marauding Fulani terrorists ravaging our farmlands.
“We maintain our stand that the infamous BRGIE and her criminal gang called Biafra Liberation Army are the creation of the Nigerian government through DSS to blackmail IPoB. That is why when these criminals are used to stage any crime, the Nigerian Army and Police quickly rush to the media and tag their violent activities on IPoB-ESN.
“The call by the Nigerian Army to the ICC, UN, and Amnesty International to take action against IPoB is null and void because those responsible institutions know the truth about IPoB activities around the globe. The global institutions operate under international laws and respect the right to self-determination.
“At the same time, IPoB has not violated the laws and principles governing self-determination. Those institutions also understand that the IPoB movement is non-violent. They understand that IPoB and its members are being persecuted by the corrupt Nigerian government and its murderous security agencies.
The institutions have an avalanche of evidence of the Nigerian government’s repressions against peaceful IPoB members, and they equally have refused to take bribes from the Nigerian government to join in the blackmail of the self-determination struggle championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the IPoB movement.
“The Nigerian government and her murderous security agencies should stop blackmailing IPoB. Should IPoB decide to confront the Nigerian security agencies, they will understand that IPoB is formidable and a force to reckon with.
“We are therefore warning that the Nigerian Army should not take our non-violent approach for weakness. Our non-violence approach is our respect to the internal laws and principles governing self-determination, not a weakness.”
