IPOB PRESS RELEASE,
2nd September,2024.
The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to inform Biafrans and the general public particularly Ndigbo that the concocted propaganda being peddled by the murderous Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters to the effect that its "OPERATION UDO-KA'' in the South East Region killed 27 ESN Operatives and arrested over 51 civilians in the month of August in the Eastern Region is nothing but falsehood from the pit of hell targed against the Biafran freedom movement. The Nigerian Army is just talking trash because the Nigerian Army did not engage ESN at any place in the East.
It is very essential that Biafrans understand the mind game being played out by the Nigerian Security apparatus as principally meant to demoralize, create doubt and loss of faith amongst Biafrans in the only institution that is standing between them and their desire and intention to overrun our land through their proxy terror outlet which is the fulani herdsmen.
We want to categorically state that no IPOB member or ESN is missing within the said period. All ESN operatives and formations in Biafran Land are fully intact and accounted for.
The Nigerian military operation code named "UDO-KA" is another "Python Dance" that the Nigerian Army adopted to slaughter innocent people and forcefully disappear Igbo youths in the South East Region.
The so-called ESN Operatives that the military claimed to have killed are innocent Igbo youths they picked up at random in our villages and cities. Also the over 51 civilians (that number may be over 100 persons), they claimed to have arrested are innocent people who may have been forcefully disappeared and their organs harvested by the Murderous Nigerian Army because the Nigerian Army's major source of revenue presently is the harvest of the organs of innocent Biafrans arrested in their numerous check points scattered all over Biafraland.
It's sad that the Nigerian Army defense headquarters boldly announces daily how many Ndigbo youths they murder in our land, whereas the Northern region where terrorists and bandits seized their equipments and recking havoc is not heavily militarized as is the Biafran territory.
If the Nigerian government thinks that they can break our resolve by their continuous silent genocide, then they haven't learned anything from history. IPOB and ESN will neither retreat nor surrender our match to freedom until Biafra referendum is peacefully organized or our objective will be achieved through other means. We have decided to restore Biafra no matter what we may meet as an obstacle on our way to Biafra freedom.
On the other hand, the man called Sunday Afordimnze Asika aka Aboy Ekwensu that the Nigerian Army claimed to have arrested in Ezinifite in Aguata LGA of Anambra State has never been a member of IPOB and can never be an ESN Operative. The Nigerian government and her murderous military apparatus should stop their cheap propaganda of attributing every Biafran youth they kidnapp as an IPOB member or ESN Operative. Their cheap propaganda is not holding any water and will never hold water. Instead, it's diminishing the reputation of the Nigerian Army.
In fact, Ndigbo and the international community know that the architects of terror and insecurity in Biafra Land are the Nigerian Security Forces, not IPOB or ESN.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.