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IPOB accuses S’East politicians of fueling insecurity in the region
The proscribed Igbo secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has accused politicians from the South-East
of fueling insecurity in the region due to their political witch-hunting, mutual recriminations and backbiting.
The Biafra agitators, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, called on politicians in the region to attack the root cause of insecurity in the region instead of wasting time in fighting the group and truncating every effort to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
In the statement, the group urged South-East politicians to “wake up and stop sponsoring armed political thugs in the region in the hope of discrediting the activities of IPOB.”
It further contended that it ‘doesn’t require a complex analytical brain to understand that the continued illegal incarceration of Kanu, chronic youth unemployment and the shoot-to-kill and ask questions later policy of Nigeria’s security agents are the main issues propelling insecurity in the South-East.”
As a solution to the crisis in the, IPOB suggested “that all hands must be on deck to minimise this trend and secure the region before the enemies of our people will leverage this trend to complete the holocaust they started in 1966.”
Powerful also noted that South-East governors know that the release of Kanu will bring the activities of criminal elements in the region to an abrupt end which has made them do everything possible to hinder his release.
“The Directorate of State (DOS) of the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu calls on Igbo politicians in the region to desist from political witch-hunt,” the statement reads.
“Instead of political bickering, all hands should be on deck to reduce crime and secure the region.
“Recently, the South East Region has become restive due to the activities of federal government sponsored criminals. The violent criminals and kidnappers are sponsored by some foreign interest and their collaborators through their government agents whose interest is to exploit the natural resources in our land.
“South East is known internationally and locally as the most peaceful and safest region in Nigeria. For four consecutive years, South East was recognized by the UN Development Program (UNDP) as the most secure and safe place in Nigeria.
“However, the Nigerian government and her Western allies started sponsoring politicians to recruit criminals to cause insecurity in the South East Region for two purposes.
“First, to blackmail IPOB’s peaceful and non-violent movement for Biafra Self Determination for referendum. Secondly, to create insecurity and have a reason to militarize the region for easy exploitation of the natural resources.
“The undemocratic and illegality of the Supreme Court ruling that imposed fourth position to become first Hope Uzodinma as the governor in Imo State was part of the plot to destabilize the South East Region.
“Ever since Hope Uzodinma and some political appointees from Abuja have been imposed on Ndigbo and the South East Region, the region has not known peace.
“However, IPOB wishes to remind the Nigerian government and the Western politicians that Alaigbo is a sacred land. We can not afford to condone shedding of the blood of the sons and daughters of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
“We call it aru, which means abomination. Shedding the innocent blood of Biafrans to maintain political and economic relevance shall not be condoned.
“No blood of innocent Biafran should be sacrificed to maintain political and/or economic relevance. The Southeast politicians should stop sponsoring political thugs in our region.
“Similarly, the drug cartels operating along Orlu axis of Imo State are advised to find legitimate businesses to do in the South East Region and not to destroy Igbo youths. All the political and drug related crimes sponsored by some notorious individuals in the region are helping to fuel the Nigerian government and Western sponsored insecurity in the East.
“We are demanding that the political bickering among Ndigbo should stop so that we can be able to separate the common criminals from the foreign backed criminals who are here to anahilate our people.
“IPOB has already set some watchdogs up to identify individual politicians and drug cartels fueling insecurity in the East. Anyone claiming ignorance of this order from IPOB will regret it.
“IPOB is a global peaceful movement and will take it upon ourselves to ensure that peace reigns in the peaceful region of the South East especially this upcoming Xmas season. The South East Region was recognized as the most peaceful and secure region in Nigeria, according to the United Nation Development Program of 2012 to 2016 by their rating.
“IPOB wants to return the region to her former glorious status irrespective of the federal government sponsored insecurity in the region. That is why we are calling on the Igbo politicians and business people to avoid being agents of destabilization in the region.
‘However, those who fail to heed this clarion call from IPOB to give peace a chance will be treated as enemies. Those paid to destroy Biafran Land will have themselves destroyed. IPOB stands for safe and secure Biafran Land, but the enemies of peace of our land will be visited with vengeance.”
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