By Nwafor Okafor
The Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) has decried the alleged extrajudicial killings of some youths in Anambra State by the military.
Reacting to the development in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, on Sunday, IPOB counselled the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, not to be tempted to be in any competition with his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodimma “in killing our people.”
Acknowledging that there were pockets of petty criminals in the state as obtainable elsewhere in Nigeria, the secessionist group said that was not enough reason for the Nigeria military to randomly slaughter people in the state like chickens, stating that soldiers on the day in issue started shooting innocent people indiscriminately on the road, adding that some victims were gunned down in their homes in Ogbaru and Nnewi South Local Government Areas of the state.
The group said,”The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to call the attention of professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo to the slaughtering of his citizens in Ogbaru LGA and Nnewi South LGAs of Anambra State.
“IPOB family is deeply saddened with the ongoing massacre of innocent people with no traceable links to criminals by Nigeria Joint Military in an effort to curb criminality in the East particularly in Anambra State and Imo State. It is very sad and distasteful seeing our people being massacred in their numbers especially at the Ogbaru and Nnewi South LGAs. We don’t know if Gov. Soludo was aware of this military exercise or it’s Caliphate government’s plans to wipe out larger number of Ndigbo.
“Chukwuma Charles Soludo are you now the second Hitler like Hope Uzodinma and Nyesom Wike who were instructed to kill their people by the caliphate? Is this military depopulation of your people part of the deal you entered with the enemies of Ndigbo before being voted into office as Anambra Governor last year November?
“Soludo are you in competition to kill our people with Hope Uzodinma who was not voted by his people or do you plan to beat his record? Do you also derive joy seeing your people being murdered by Fulani terrorists and jihadist masquerading as Nigeria security agencies? Soludo what crimes did people of your state commit to deserve being unleashed with Military and Police brutality?
It maintained that soldiers killed no fewer than 100 innocent citizens in Ogbaru LGA during the onslaught without any state publication and condemnation from anybody, adding that no national newspaper in the country published the massacre, alleging that the Nigerian media were being muzzled by the Federal Government.
The pro-Biafra group wondered why such massacre could happen to a people while their governors in the South-East region kept mum over what it called outrage and ethnic cleansing .
The group’s statement read in part,”IPOB and ESN operatives are doing their best to stop those perpetrating criminalities in the region and shouldn’t be pointed to our enemies to be killed as the terrorist in uniform also do not trust the pointer. Do not justify the killing of our innocent young men and women including elderly people instead support ESN to bring peace and calmness to our land which foreign enemies can never achieve in one million years.
“It is only a fool that will call his enemies to come and settle their differences. Fulani lead government and the fulanized military dislike Igbos with passion and wish we can be wiped out. Hence any Governor inviting the Nigeria terrorist military to the East is an enemy of his people. The level killing going-on in Ogbaru LGA and Nnewi South LGA is condemnation. We wonder how Nigeria compromised army going house to house searching for innocent Biafrans citizens to kill, we don’t want that to happen again.
“Profiling and Killing of our innocent young Igbo youths while the terrorist youths in the North are being recruited into Nigeria army, police and DSS, covered with with military uniformed, armed and sent to our land upon request of some of our Governors for deliberate massacre of their citizens can be referred as stupid. That’s why the Caliphate refers to such individuals as “Useful Idiots”.
“Dear Professor Soludo, the Anambra State Governor, we respect you as an intelligent Professor and technocrat who is more knowledgeable compared to many other Igbo politicians especially when it concerns our collective good as Igbo people not to bow completely to external forces. Recent events left us with no doubt that you’re being persuaded and even blackmailed into dancing to the tune of Nigeria Fulani government. You have joined the league of southern politicians fulani called our stooge” whose self persuasions enlist as one of the bloodsuckers silently killing her citizens to please his Masters. There’s also no doubt that such act if embraced would attract a regrettable consequences.
“Gov. Chukwuma Soludo take a look at what is happening in Ukpor Nnewi South LGA, how the military were going house to house searching eliminating and disappearing youths from 15 years above. So far Nigeria terrorist Military may eliminated more than 500 innocent youths in the two LGAs of Ogbaru and Nnewi South of Anambra State.
“Can you show us where military attack and burnt down a village in the North when terrorists and bandits killed any military personnel? When Nigeria Army comes into Biafra land, they dumped military rules of engagement and become brutal as terrorists in burning properties and mindless slaughtering of our people. We are not asking you not to fight criminals who are troubling our people but call these jihadists parading as Nigeria soldiers to order, disabuse our minds and that of Anambra youths, convince us that you haven’t become another Hope Uzodinma of Imo State here in Anambra State.
“Have you gone to Ogbaru LGA and Nnewi South LGA and see what fulani military are doing in that area? Why haven’t you visited those affected Local Government to see the level of massacre that the fulani militias in Nigeria military did to our people?
It implored Soludo to partner with the security arm of IPOB ( the ESN) to fight crime in the state instead of inviting those it called “imported enemy army into our land”,restating that “Only a fool will invite his enemies to settle a family quarrel”.
