PRESS RELEASE, 9th July, 2024. The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indef...
PRESS RELEASE,
9th July, 2024.
The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indefatigable leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwu
Kanu debunk the fallacious news peddled by the Nigerian Military that they
invaded ESN camp and captured ESN commanders in Orlu and Okigwe LGA of Imo
State.
We have repeatedly cautioned the Nigerian military to call
the criminals they capture by their names. It's very unprofessional for the
Nigerian military to tag every criminal element captured on IPOB and ESN just
for media blackmail against IPOB and propaganda to continue their criminal
activities.
ESN Operatives are right inside Biafra bushes and forests
dislodging, marauding Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen for the safety
of our farmers and farmlands, particularly during the farming season. We know
that the Nigeria military and their sister security agencies want to destroy
ESN in order to pave the way for the Fulani terrorists to destroy our
farmlands, but that will not happen.
We advise the Nigerian government and her Security Agencies
to desist from linking ESN and IPOB volunteers to their sponsored criminal
elements who were kidnapping and snatching people's properties in the name of
the Biafra struggle.
Repeatedly, IPOB has disassociated ourselves from these
government sponsored criminals terrorising Okigwe and Orlu Communities in Imo
State. The Nigeria government and her Security Agencies cannot claim ignorance
of those criminals. The criminals even disassociated themselves from ESN. They
call themselves Biafran Liberation Army, claiming to be fighting for Biafra but
are involved in lots of violent crimes against Ndigbo.
These criminals take orders from their leader sponsored by
the Nigeria government and it's Department of State Services, DSS. Therefore,
the Nigerian Army can not claim they are not working with these criminals that
they are parading. We understand that the military and the criminals are
working together to destroy IPOB-ESN, but their agenda is dead on arrival.
Biafra Land is swallowing them at a faster pace. They can not comprehend.
In contrast, ESN operatives are disciplined and well
oriented vigilantees. They are under oath to protect our people, not to
intimidate or harm them. However, the infiltrators and agent provocateurs were
recruited to harass and make Biafra land insecure. But Biafrans and ESN
Operatives are not giving them the liberty to achieve their objectives.
Therefore, it is important that the world knows that the Nigeria government,
her Security Agencies (military, DSS, and Police ), recruited the criminals to
demonise the peaceful IPOB movement and her Eastern Security Network, ESN vigilante.
Those that the Nigerian Army claimed to have arrested in
camps at Orlu and Okigwe are not ESN operatives. They are criminals
masquerading as Liberation Army. IPOB does not have an Army. The Nigerian Army
must call them by their names and leave IPOB and ESN alone.
Most of the insecurity situations in Imo State, particularly
in Orlu, Orsu, and Okigwe, are masterminded by these criminals in the
Liberation Army, Fulani terrorists, and criminal elements in the Nigeria
Security Forces. All their criminal activities were tagged on IPOB by the
Nigerian government to damage the reputation of IPOB and ESN internationally.
We are aware that their agenda is also to persuade Ndigbo to disown IPOB and
ESN and to make the international community believe that IPOB is a terrorist
organization.
Since the international community has refused to accept
the terrorist tag that the Nigerian
government vindictively placed on IPOB, the Nigerian government decided to
create home groomed terrorists and call them IPOB and ESN. All their dirty strategies have failed
because IPOB is innocent and focused on our objective, which is the Biafra
referendum or outright declaration of Biafra Independence.
The international community has smart and intelligent
agencies that can not be fooled by the Nigerian government's shenanigans
against the self- determination movement championed by IPOB. It is only
foolishness to continue to adopt the same strategies that have always failed
and expect positive results.
The Nigeria government and their murderous military is
continuing to make jest of themselves locally and internationally by trying to
demarket and blackmail the Biafran struggle, IPOB, and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but
what are the effects on them?
Our hands are clean. We are preserving what is ours. We are
in the right, so Nigeria will continue to fail.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR
IPOB
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