hiazu Mbaise Massacre: Hold FG, Police Hierarchy Responsible; IPOB to Nigerians

AFROM OUR MONITOR’S DESK (ABUJA)

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)said the group has debunked the alleged fabricated statements credited to the Nigeria Police accusing IPOB of being responsible for the murders of policemen  at Ahiazu Mbaise in Imo State on Monday November 27, 2023, adding that the said statement has proved that the Nigeria government and police leadership allegedly masterminded the murder of these innocent police men as against fingering IPOB without any investigation within a few hours. 

Recall that IPOB had raised an alarm last week where they accused the Nigeria government and her Security hierarchy of having renewed and intensified attacks in the Southeast through their proxy in Finland as against the Supreme Court judgement of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu approaches.

“The public should go back to the IPOB press release of last week, November 24, 2023. There we mentioned that the Nigeria government will commence violent attacks in the East using their proxy in Finland to blackmail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and to put pressure on the Supreme Court Justices not to release him on December 15, 2023.

“Recall that during the same last week, the Nigeria Army falsely claimed that Simon Ekpa is an IPOB leader. In the same week, Simon Ekpa threatened to violently expel Nigeria Security Forces from the Southeast starting this week. How come then that the Nigeria police in Imo State accused IPOB of being responsible for the attack and murder of policemen in Mbaise?

“Is it not obvious that the Nigeria government and the authorities in Nigeria Army, the Nigeria Police, and DSS are working together with their proxy in Finland to murder and sacrifice some Security men in order to blackmail and thwart the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu during the upcoming Supreme Court judgement? 

“It is obvious that the Nigeria police and military are sacrificing the lives of their service men and women just to blackmail IPOB. In the same way, they sacrificed the lives of many Nigerian soldiers to Boko Haram in the North to create increased  insecurity.

“Neither the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, nor the Police Commissioner in Imo State will claim to be ignorant or innocent of these evil plans. 

“In order to cover their collusion, the Nigeria police in Imo State quickly arrested innocent people at Mbaise to be used as scape goats. Arresting innocent people labeling them IPOB and forcing them to claim responsibility for the murder of innocent policemen will not hold water. If the Nigeria police want to prove to the world that those they arrested indeed committed the crime, they should arraign them before the court for prosecution.

“Every blackmail against IPOB ends in the media with no investigations. We call on the Nigeria Police to shamelessly release innocent people they arrested at Mbaise and go after their proxy criminals who are not hiding their criminal activities”. IPOB alleged.

The group through their Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful through a press release said there is no genuine IPOB member that is going to succumb to the point of working against the release of our leader, either will they do anything inimical towards the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 

Continuing, IPOB was of the view that the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains the priority of every IPOB member and that was why all eyes are on the ball against all provocations facing the entire members of the group even as the group made it clear that those involving themselves in violence and criminal activities are not IPOB members but government agents.

Condemning the barbaric murder of the DPO of Ahiazu Mbaise Division of the Nigeria Police Force in Imo State and his colleagues, IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu claimed that they has no hands in the murders and will not be involved in  murderous activities anywhere, emphasising that their minds focused on the release of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said to did not commit any crime known to law both locally in Nigeria or internationally.  . 

“We blame the police hierarchy for conniving with the federal government to sacrifice some of their gallant men in order to blackmail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB in the same way the military hierarchy are sacrificing brave soldiers to Boko Haram and ISWAP in the Northern Nigeria. Nigerian policemen and soldiers should hold their leaders responsible for making them sacrificial lambs while billions of Naira are being looted. Their chiefs  are making  blood money. It is time that gallant men in the  Nigeria police and military stand up against their corrupt leaders who are sacrificing them to their militia proxies in Nigeria.

“The authorities in the Nigeria Police, DSS, Army knew exactly the perpetrators of insecurity in the East. These criminal infiltrators were created and  recruited by the Nigeria government with the help of some criminal politicians in Biafra land to demonise and blackmail, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and ESN. The same criminals have become monsters that will continue to devour Nigeria security agents until they disband them  and confess to their crime.  

“IPOB remains a responsible and peaceful movement that is pursuing Independence from the  Islamic state of Nigeria. The Indigenous people of Biafra are not Muslims and can not be forced or intimidated into remaining with an Islamic country. To that end, every effort by the Islamic Fulani Nigeria government and her cronies to keep sacrificing innocent poliecemen and soldiers so that they can blackmail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and IPOB to drop the Biafra agitation is dead on arrival.

“Using criminals to blackmail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a ploy to intimidate the Supreme Court Justices not to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who was kidnapped, renditioned and detained for over 2 years is to pull the trigger that will consume this their country. 

IPOB has fulfilled all the legal requirements of self-determination in line with internationally acceptable rules and regulations. However, if Nigeria decides to continue with lawlessness and disobedience to their laws and international laws by not releasing our leader, we may have no obligation to stay the course. Those who make peaceful resistance impossible make violent resistance inevitable”. IPOB concluded.