April
10, 2016
Press Release
THE
UNSUCCESSFUL FRAMING UP OF IPOB AS A VIOLENT AND TERRORIST GROUP: BUHARI AND
DSS SHOULD TRY HARDER NEXT TIME
Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari and his Gestapo
Organization called Department of State Services (DSS), henceforth referred to
as “Gestapo-DSS“, have once again
failed in their attempts to portray the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a
violent and terrorist group. In their latest but poorly written statement
titled “DSS Official Statement on
Barnawi and IPOB“, the Gestapo-DSS stated
that: “the Service has uncovered the heinous role
played by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), in the
abduction/kidnap of five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely Mohammed GAINAKO, Ibrahim
MOHAMMED, Idris YAKUBU, and Isa Mohammed RAGO at Isuikwuato LGA in Abia State.”
They further noted that: “The abducted men were later discovered at the Umuanyi
forest, Abia State, where they were suspected to have been killed by their
abductors and buried in shallow graves, amidst fifty (50) other shallow graves
of unidentified persons. Arrest and investigation conducted so far, revealed
that elements within the IPOB, carried out this dastardly action.”
To drive home their evil
intentions, the murderous Gestapo-DSS
asserted that: “It is pertinent
therefore to alert the general public that IPOB, is gradually showing its true
divisive colour and objectives, while steadily embarking on gruesome actions in
a bid to ignite ethnic terrorism and mistrust amongst non-indigenes in the
South-East region and other parts of the country. Following this act, tension
is currently rife among communal stakeholders in the State with possibilities
of spillover to other parts of country“
Sadly, Buhari and his Gestapo-DSS have come too late to the party because the world is
already aware of their plans as earlier revealed through IPOB‘s statement dated
September 9, 2015 and titled: “ PERSISTENT TERRORIST ATTACKS ON BIAFRANS BY THE
NIGERIAN STATE.”
The aforementioned IPOB‘s statement is posted at the
end of this Press Release to remind Buhari and his Gestapo-DSS that IPOB knew ahead of time, what they have up their
sleeves. But apart from IPOB’s proactive warning, it is important to analyze
this red-herring being drawn by Buhari and his Gestapo-DSS.
First, on the website of the Gestapo-DSS, they stated thus: “We are obligated by law to
investigate the following;
·
Threat of espionage
·
Threat of espionage
·
Threat of sabotage
·
Economic crimes of national security dimension
·
Terrorist activities
·
Separatist agitations and inter-group conflicts.“
But all the claims above are at variance with
Section-2(3) of CAP74 LFN 2004 which is the law that established and empowers
the Gestapo-DSS. Above all, it is
not the duty of the Gestapo-DSS to
investigate and make conclusive statements on civilian abduction and murder
cases but rather, it is the duty of the Homicide Department of the Nigeria Police Force under the
Force/State Criminal Investigation Department (FCID or SCID) and the office of
the Director of Coroner’s Inquest of the State in question. Therefore,
structurally and mandate-wise on this occasion, the Gestapo-DSS is a fraud and their claims/activities are equally
fraudulent.
Now,
we come to the their statement; How did the Gestapo-DSS come to the conclusion that it was IPOB members that
perpetrated the said crime? Why was it so easy to identify the five
Hausa-Fulani victims by names while they were unable to identify the name of
atleast one person out of the other fifty victims? Are they saying that only
Hausa-Fulani people can be easily identified by names? Who conducted the
“arrest and investigation“ and when was it done? By the way, where are the
pictorial and video evidences of the claims by the Gestapo-DSS in comparison to the pictures and video footages
provided by IPOB when Buhari killed dozens of Biafrans on February 9, 2016 and
for which Buhari cowardly refused to watch the video footage during an
interview with Al Jazeera’s Martine Dennis?
It
is clear to everyone that Buhari and his Gestapo-DSS
are bereft of any strategy to quell the rising profile of IPOB and the growing
resoluteness of Biafrans to restore their God-ordained nation of Biafra despite
extra-judicial killings, intimidations, blackmail, monetary inducements to
Ohaneze Ndigbo and allied groups, and sundry evil acts perpetrated by state
agents. On the other hand, the Gestapo-DSS
have realized that they are on the losing side of the legal proceedings that
they initiated against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB. They have rather
resorted to concocting stories of abduction and killing and have subtly
introduced the word “Terrorism“ so
that they will hopefully make it stick on IPOB and then get Buhari to proclaim
IPOB a violent and terrorist organization.
One
of the reasons behind this ill-fated statement by the Gestapo-DSS is to give them the opportunity to go to court and cite
Section-62(2) of CAP38 LFN 2004, which
is the missing piece in the second charge against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. But they
have failed woefully. Another reason is to give justifications to any upcoming
genocidal killing of Biafrans in the Northern (Arewa nation) part of Nigeria,
having laid the grounds for reprisal killing of those from the Igbo-speaking
areas of Biafraland residing in Arewa portion of Nigeria. Therefore, IPOB is
once again alerting the world of the evil plans of Buhari and his Gestapo-DSS in which they want to tag
Biafrans as violent and terrorists.
We
urge the public to disregard this hogwash statement from the Gestapo-DSS because it lacks
credibility, it is not from the
constitutionally/legally authorized source, and it is intended to achieve the
twin objectives of classifying IPOB as a terrorist organization and satisfying
Section-62(2) CAP38 LFN 2004.
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokesperson for IPOB Spokesperson
for IPOB
SEPTEMBER
9, 2015
PERSISTENT TERRORIST
ATTACKS ON BIAFRANS BY THE NIGERIAN STATE
From June 17th
to June 19th, 2015, the Nigerian State bombed Akwa Ibom and Cross
Rivers States with the banned NAPALM BOMBS killing scores of innocent Biafrans
and leaving some of them with severe burns on their skins. The reason adduced
for these indiscriminate and heartless bombings was that they are targeting
kidnappers but these two states are never known to have any history of
kidnappings. On the 31st of July, 2015, agents of the Nigerian State
shot and killed a defenceless Biafran at his shop in Ariaria International
Market located in Aba, Abia State in the Biafran region. Investigation revealed
that these agents wanted to smoke cannabis and wanted the victim to provide
them with the cannabis but he politely told them that he does not consume nor
keep such in his possession and he was shot dead. On August 7th,
2015, at Whimpy Junction in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State in
Biafra region, a Nigerian Policeman shot dead a Biafran bus driver from
Ogoniland. The reason for extra-judicial killing of this Biafran was because he
did not have money to give to the Policeman and the Policeman fatally shot him.
On Sunday, August 30th, 2015, Nigerian Navy
personnel opened fire at over 10,000 unarmed Biafrans who were peacefully
giving out fliers and leaflets to fellow Biafrans and educating them on the
need for the nation of Biafra. This incidence which left many dead and
thousands seriously injured from stray bullets, took place at Onitsha in
Anambra State in Biafran region. A benevolent Police Officer who was at the
point of the incidence requested the Naval personnel to stop the mayhem but he
was promptly informed by the leader of the Naval Team that they were shooting
at Biafrans based on instructions from their Commander–in-Chief. Pictures of
some of the corpses of the affected Biafrans are attached to this notice. Since
the beginning of September 2015,
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby bring
the attention of the world to these ceaseless terrorist acts and abductions
perpetrated against Biafrans by the Nigerian State. We are informing the world
that we cannot stand idly by and watch Biafrans being kidnapped and murdered by
the Nigerian Government. Biafrans have the fundamental human right to defend
themselves against these terrorist acts being visited upon them by the Nigerian
State.
It is very important to note that the Nigerian
Government started these terrorist acts against the Biafrans and NOT the other way round. The
world is hereby put on notice that Biafrans will henceforth exercise their
fundamental human right to self-defence. What we shall not accept is a
situation where the Nigerian State, and their terrorist-supporting allies, will
embark on smear campaign of labelling IPOB as a terrorist organization when
actually it is the Nigerian State that is terrorizing Biafrans. We shall resist
any attempt to tag us as terrorists just because we are merely defending
ourselves and stopping the Nigerian State from exterminating us through their
acts of terrorism.
The Nigerian Government had already killed over 6
million Biafrans beginning from June 22nd, 1945 in Jos to January 12th,
1970 and the killing is still ongoing.
Biafrans shall defend themselves in order to put a stop to further
genocide and this should NEVER
be construed as an act of terrorism but rather an act of self-defence.
The real terrorists
are the Nigerian State and her agents. The world should take note!!!
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Mazi
Uchenna Asiegbu
Leader of IPOB Head,
Directorate of State of IPOB
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