IPOB PRESS RELEASE
03/02/2025

The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide condemn the Nigerian Government sponsored blackmail against IPOB and ESN by a group that called themselves Odimma Orsu Initiative in Imo State. The claim by these infamous sponsored group that IPOB and ESN were responsible for the security menace in their community is false and a sponsored media blackmail against IPOB/ESN.

IPOB worldwide is very upset with the false narrative from sponsored political jobbers in Lagos that called themselves Odimma Orsu Initiative Imo State. In a recent media briefing televised by TVC, this group of shameless men claimed that the criminals that desecrated their community were IPOB/ESN. They claimed they are no longer going to keep quiet as their community is destroyed. The unscrupulous elements from Orsu should stop allowing some of them to make jest of themselves and know that Hope Uzodinma and his government sponsors some of them to join Umuoma to kill their people. The question is; where were these men all these years that IPOB has been shouting and exposing the barbaric activities of the criminals that Hope Uzodinma, the Nigerian Government and other APC politicians recruited to impersonate and destroy IPOB and ESN’s genuine agitation? The barbaric criminals in the Orsu area that controlled the notorious “mother valley camp” in the community were led by Umuoma and were recruited by the buffoon in the Finland prison .The Imo State Government has a direct link with these notorious criminals.
They called themselves Umuoma of Biafra Liberation Army under the buffoon in Finland Prison and his Biafra Government in Exile. These criminals were sponsored by the APC government in Imo and Abuja. On more than two occasions, Hope Uzodinma’s government led by his deputy governor had pally meetings with these criminals. IPOB has always issued press releases exposing these criminals and condemned their actions. For the past three(3) years, ESN camps in Imo State were relocated to avoid missup with the niferous activities of the BLA criminals.

IPOB is a non-violent civilian volunteer movement championing Biafra Self Determination. On the other hand, ESN are armed IPOB volunteer Vigilantees that have dedicated their time in dislodging, marauding Fulani terrorists in Biafra farmlands. It has been over a decade since IPOB started the Biafra agitation, and the movement has never been associated with violence or criminalities in Nigeria or in diaspora. Irrespective of the Nigerian Government’s repeated provocations, abduction, extrajudicial killings, and forceful disappearances of our members, we have remained peaceful and consistently focused on non-violent actions to restore Biafra. But as soon as the Nigerian Government masterminded the abduction of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and extraordinarily renditioned him from Kenya to Nigeria, the Nigerian Government activated every plans they have to destroy IPOB and ESN. They mobilized their standby agent, the buffoon that is currently in Finland prison, who then recruited the soulless criminals that committed havoc in Imo State and Anambra State in the name of IPOB-ESN and Biafra agitation. Part of the plan is that Governor Hope Uzodinma should provide a safe heaven for the recruited criminals. That is why the violent activities of these APC sponsored criminals mostly centered around Imo State and some bordering communities in Anambra State. These criminals often claimed to be IPOB and ESN, but repeatedly, IPOB have disassociated from them. At last, they identified themselves as the Biafra Liberation Army(BLA). These soulless criminals in the BLA have no relationship with IPOB or ESN. IPOB and ESN are for the defense of our people and not to harm them.

These men who claimed to be speaking for the Orsu community from Lagos State were mute over these years, but IPOB was not silent. In the past 3 years, these government sponsored infiltrator criminals were funded by the Nigerian government to smear the hallowed name of IPOB. It is our belief that these men who claimed to be members of Odimma Orsu Initiative are either sponsored by the Nigerian Government for a price or under dures from Hope Uzodinma to implicate IPOB and ESN or are criminally ignorant. Odimma Orsu initiatives must withdraw this allegations against IPOB and ESN members publicly, otherwise, they can’t be mute for over the 3 year-period these criminals were raking havoc in their community and suddenly woke up to say that those were IPOB. Moreso, the Nigerian Army and Police were all aware of the locations of these criminals in Imo State. The so-called Mother Valley in Orsu is their main camp. The Nigerian Security Forces are aware of this very location, yet they chose to allow them to operate freely while tagging their criminal activities on IPOB and ESN. In one of the viral videos from the Nigerian Army’s friendly visit to the so-called mother valley camp, it was visibly written on the wall “Valley camp of BLA” yet the Nigerian Army claimed the criminals were IPOB and ESN. Both the BLA criminals, the Nigerian government, and her murderous Security Forces were working in synergy. These criminals are on one side attacking IPOB leadership and members. On the other hand, the Nigerian government is tagging their violent activities on IPOB and ESN. They were all martialled out strategy to demonize and criminalize IPOB and ESN.
Worthy to note is that these BLA criminals were responsible for the killing of some IPOB members, including the murder of IPOB Biafra Land National Coordinator. (May their souls rest in peace).

In summary, we debunk the false narrative by the Nigerian Government sponsored group called Odimma Orsu Initiative that IPOB-ESN was responsible for the atrocities that bedevilled their land in the past 3 years. It is a false narrative. IPOB and ESN are NOT responsible. Those responsible were the government sponsored criminals who called themselves Biafra Liberation Army (BLA) or Umuoma. IPOB and ESN have no relationship with the government sponsored BLA criminals who were camped for over 3 years in Orsu Mother Valley by the Imo State Governor. All the calculated media blackmail against IPOB and ESN by the Nigerian government will amount to nothing because IPOB-ESN is innocent of all the accusations. IPOB and ESN will never be cowed down by the Nigerian Government sponsored campaign of calumny against a legal and responsible self-determination movement.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB