The Indigenous People of Biiafra (IPOB) on Tuesday morning told South East politicians to stop linking criminal activities in the zone with it, saying that criminality is not part of its agitation for the sovereign State of Biafra.
According to a statement by its Spokesperson, Emma Powerful: “Following the incessant abductions, killings, humiliation and sponsorship of all manner of criminalities in the Eastern region for quite sometime now by Nigeria Government and her compromised security agencies against the innocent citizens, the IPOB remind politicians that the time has come for them to turn a new leaf, desist from making themselves available to the enemies of our people to use as tools of destabilising the Eastern Region and cause anachy in our land or be ready to face the consequences that will fohese men of perdition must stop linking IPOB with their evil actions because we are not morally bankrupt as they the political harlots they are.
“IPOB is a very disciplined, very focused freedom movement. We have no business with political criminals and we do not have any business with criminality because if IPOB engages in any form of criminality, we will be delaying the coming of an Independent Biafran Nation and we certainly have no intention or desire to delay the freedom and liberty of the Biafran people.
“IPOB has no plans neither are we complicit in the political killings, kidnapping of religious leaders and business people going on in our territory but these evil politicians working for the Nigerian government are behind and sponsoring all criminalities going-on and we must be held accountable.
“We cannot be involved in killing people we labour for, spend our resources and our lives to protect unlike the Fulanized stooges (politicians) in our land. The Nigeria Police, Army and DSS agents deployed in our land from Abuja are the key actors in the kidnapping and unlawful and unprovoked killings going-on in Anambra, Abia, Imo Ebonyi and Enugu states.
“We are aware of the criminals they created to demonise IPOB and ESN, we are aware of the plans to murder politicians and businessemen and women and blame it on IPOB. We are therefore reminding these political jobbers in our land to stop sponsoring political thugs against their opponents and thinking they will demonise and bring IPOB down. Its not possible for them.
“IPOB members are not politicians and we don’t believe in the selection process Nigeria and its Government call election. No body should link IPOB with the massacre and killings and kidnappings going-on in the Eastern Region. We have published names of some of those politicians and their thugs responsible for these criminalities happening now in the region as well as the Nigerian Army harbouring in their Barracks Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen to attack our land and kidnap for ransom.
“IPOB can not engage in such cowardly act, it is abominable, we are not politicians nor do we have rival opponents in our fight to Iiberate our land and people in it, we concern and occupy ourselves with freedom and security of Biafrans and therefore cannot afford to kill those we are fighting for their freedom.
“IPOB is hereby alerting our people to be careful with whom they do things because there is danger ahead which is the result of our politicians having sold out their people for a pot of porridge.
“Anybody linking IPOB with the criminal acts happening in the Eastern region will have IPOB to contend with. IPOB would not allow anyone to drag our hard earned International standing and reputations to the mud. If we are terrorists the European Union (EU) cannot afford to allow IPOB to demonstrate in their headquarters in Brussels Belgium. Therefore, anybody or media who report IPOB as terror group or prescribe group should purely examine themselves in the psychiatrist centre.
“We are not interested in the selection process called Nigeria election, yet we cannot afford to allow anyone or group behind the killings and kidnap in our land to continue.
“Politicians in the Eastern region must desist from evil acts such as using thugs to attack their perceived political stumbling block with the evil intention that IPOB would be blamed without investigation. Whosoever allows himself/herself as willing tools in the hands of politicians would regret such action soon.”