IPOB PRESS RELEASE
14/11/2022

We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of the great and indefatigable leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU wish to reiterate that IPOB and ESN Operatives are not responsible for the insecurity ravaging the Eastern Region. Instead, we have helped to curb the spread of State sponsored armed militias in the East who are the cause of the insecurity.

Our aim of forming ESN outfit was to safeguard our territory from the marauding Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen in our bushes and forests in Biafraland. In their effort to blackmail IPOB, Nigeria government and their Polititcians sponsored criminal armed groups in the East to create insecurity so as to blame IPOB and ESN including making money from federal government like the Imo State Supreme Court Administrator Hope Uzodinma do in Imo State. But our people now know the truth and they commend ESN for securing our farm lands. Today many of our bushes are safe and secure and our farmers are happily going to farms without the threat of being butchered like wild animals or raped in their farmlands.

IPOB is applying diplomatic and strategic moves in handling the barrage of blackmail and media propaganda against us by the Nigeria government. Nigeria government unlawfully proscribed IPOB and tagged us terrorists for seeking Self Determination of our territory. When we sued them over the proscription, they have refused to come to answer the case and charges in their own court. However, the International govermental bodies and other countries in the world know us as a peaceful and nonviolent movement seeking for freedom of our people.

Nigeria Government has lost any Legal ground to stop Biafra agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members worldwide. Nigeria Government is still working hard to brand IPOB as a violent movement before the International Community. Fortunately for us, this is the information age not 1967. International Community have their Intellegent sources who give them accurate information deviod of Nigeria government’s propaganda. Despite their proscription, arrests, torture, and forceful abductions in Nigeria, IPOB still maintain good reputation with the International Community.

What infiltrators, sabotures, agent of provocateur and others who were paid to tarnish IPOB’s reputation don’t understand is that, violent movements usually don’t get a round table discussion or audience with the International Community. Have you ever seen any terrorist group having legal representation and engaging with global audiences? We have global attention because we are not violent, neither are we terrorist as Nigeria government unjustly tagged us.

Anybody killing, kidnapping, and snatching cars, collecting ramson in the name of doing it for IPOB or Nnamdi KANU is an enemy and have no part with IPOB struggle to restore Biafra. We all need to join hands with IPOB to root out both sponsored and individual criminals in our Land because criminal activities is an impediment to our freedom.

The good relationship IPOB have maintained with the International Community even with all the heavy lobbying against us is a major problem for Nigeria. That is why till today Nigeria government is still accusing some countries of supporting IPOB to destabilize Nigeria. Yes, IPOB till today still enjoys the support of some powerful countries because we are a nonviolent movement and our quest for Self Determination is lawful and it doesn’t matter what the Nigeria State does.

Biafrans must maintain the peaceful agitation because the International community has refused the proscription of IPOB as a violent or a terrorist organisation. Till today the Nigeria government is still hunting and supplying fake information and evidence to the International Community to justify their terrorist tag on IPOB. Now you understand why when criminals are awry they will tag them IPOB; when their military kill innocent citizens, they tag them IPOB; if they arrest a prostitute they will add a Biafra flag to the picture and tag them IPOB; when Boko haram kill Nigerian military in the North, they will accuse IPOB of being responsible. All efforts to tarnish the image of our movement has turned against them, and we are still gaining higher grounds in our Independence movement.

Mazi Nnamdi KANU built the strength of this movement in diaspora, and we must remain resilient in the pursuit for our freedom. Nigeria government and its Security Agencies especially DSS and Army personnel have failed woefully in their blackmailing mission. The only option left for them is to fix a date for Biafra referendum.

The Nigeria Government and her compromised Security Agencies have tried everything to convince the International Community but have FAILED. We advise patrotic Biafrans to stay on the strategy that IPOB have set for us. What will make the International Community to change their minds against us is when they find that we are responsible for the criminalities going-on. Then we have scuttled our chances of getting Biafra freedom and independence. Therefore, we must expose all criminals and wash our hands from all evils.

Biafrans rejoice, Biafra freedom is coming. No man born of a woman can stop it, no matter the amount of support they get from the enemy, Nigeria government and politicians to stop the process which IPOB layed out to extricate Biafra from the shackles of the Nigeria State. Biafrans need to distance themselves from criminalities and stop impersonating IPOB when they do. IPOB has NO hand in any criminality anywhere. PERIOD!

To be continued next week. We are going to mention names of those criminals in our territory and their sponsors.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.