By Ifeizu Joe
Secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has alleged that factional leader, Mr Simon Ekpa was working for the Department of States Services (DSS), to bring down the group.
Publicity Secretary of the group, Mr Emma Powerful stated this in a press release, saying that Ekpa was in 2016 trained by DSS, and sent into IPOB as a mole.
Ekpa, a Finland based separatist leader, has since the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in 2021 assumed leadership of IPOB, but later styled himself as the Prime Minister of Biafra Government in Exile.
He has been responsible for the declaration of civil disobedience order, also known as sit-at-home in the south eastern region. He has also threatened many people who disobey his order, and is believed to be responsible for the violence that some miscreants unleash on innocent people during sit-at-home days.
IPOB has constantly dissociated itself from his activities, but Ekpa insists that his actions are geared towards ensuring speedy release of Kanu.
Powerful in a press release made available to THE RAZOR on Monday said: “Ekpa was prior to this period groomed by the Nigerian DSS to usurp the leadership of IPOB in 2016 but that evil plans failed woefully.
“Simon Ekpa was the same person as the faceless Okwudili that DSS created in 2016 as the new leader of IPOB, when our leader was in detention in 2016. Prior to this time, Simon was a hater of Ndigbo and particularly IPOB in Finland. IPOB members in Finland will attest to this.
“Simon Ekpa is the exclusive project of Nigerian DSS, to create a situation of unrest and hostilities in the South East which the end product was to destroy the image of IPOB.”
The group said if it was not so, the federal government would have taken certain steps to arrest his activities in the zone.
“Why is Nigeria government not making any effort to diplomatically engage Finnish Government about visible hostilities of Ekpa? Why did Nigeria suppress the Legal Investigation of Ekpa in Finland, also his court cases in Nigeria?”
The group said if the federal government was serious about ending Ekpa’s rascality in the zone, it would have ordered DSS to allow Kanu address his followers through his social media channels.
The group also called on its members to discountenance Ekpa, while also challenging him to attempt to dish orders to IPOB members without using Kanu’s name, and see that no one would listen to him.
