The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has declared that its members would henceforth bear arms in a move to defend themselves against attack from security agencies in the country.
The group made the declaration in a release issued yesterday by its spokesperson, Emma Nmezu, which was made available to newsmen in Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB Nnamdi Kanu,Umuahia.
It said that it could no longer bear the mindless killing of its harmless members. He said that no fewer than 50 members of the group have been killed.
“Now, we have come to the painful but irreversible conclusion and determination to take our fate and destiny in our own hands. Starting from Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Biafrans will now bear arms in self-defense as enshrined by the relevant acts and declarations of the United Nations.
“Let no country or world leader attempt to tag us as terrorists because we are not terrorists. Rather we are fighting for our survival and from being exterminated from the surface of the earth,” the release said.
The statement titled: “Our Rights to self-defence is now activated” further noted: “We shall defend ourselves with everything and anything necessary to avoid the continual killing of our mothers, fathers, and children. This is the time for all Biafrans to rise and defend themselves.
We cannot fold our arms and watch the Federal Government of Nigeria to continue to kill us after killing over two million during the Biafra war from 1968-70.”
The release stated that on September 2015, IPOB disclosed attacks on its members in a statement in which it alerted the world of the plan to “provoke Biafrans into retaliation with the aim of tagging it a terrorist organisation. This was before the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was illegally abducted by agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) on October 14, 2015.”
It further noted that between “October 2015 and February 8, 2016 more attacks were carried out against the agitators by Nigerian security agents under the instructions of President Muhammadu Buhari, leading to the untimely and gruesome death of over 50 protesters while thousands of others were seriously injured or maimed,” including the murder of 10 defenceless Biafrans at Aba recently where they were offering prayers for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“We have written several letters and notifications to Heads of Governments of all countries and members of their Legislative Arms on the plights of the Indigenous People of Biafra as we face extermination by the gun-toting and trigger-happy armed agents of Nigeria under the order of Muhammadu Buhari’’, it noted.
-New Telegraph
The group made the declaration in a release issued yesterday by its spokesperson, Emma Nmezu, which was made available to newsmen in Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB Nnamdi Kanu,Umuahia.
It said that it could no longer bear the mindless killing of its harmless members. He said that no fewer than 50 members of the group have been killed.
“Now, we have come to the painful but irreversible conclusion and determination to take our fate and destiny in our own hands. Starting from Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Biafrans will now bear arms in self-defense as enshrined by the relevant acts and declarations of the United Nations.
“Let no country or world leader attempt to tag us as terrorists because we are not terrorists. Rather we are fighting for our survival and from being exterminated from the surface of the earth,” the release said.
The statement titled: “Our Rights to self-defence is now activated” further noted: “We shall defend ourselves with everything and anything necessary to avoid the continual killing of our mothers, fathers, and children. This is the time for all Biafrans to rise and defend themselves.
We cannot fold our arms and watch the Federal Government of Nigeria to continue to kill us after killing over two million during the Biafra war from 1968-70.”
The release stated that on September 2015, IPOB disclosed attacks on its members in a statement in which it alerted the world of the plan to “provoke Biafrans into retaliation with the aim of tagging it a terrorist organisation. This was before the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was illegally abducted by agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) on October 14, 2015.”
It further noted that between “October 2015 and February 8, 2016 more attacks were carried out against the agitators by Nigerian security agents under the instructions of President Muhammadu Buhari, leading to the untimely and gruesome death of over 50 protesters while thousands of others were seriously injured or maimed,” including the murder of 10 defenceless Biafrans at Aba recently where they were offering prayers for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“We have written several letters and notifications to Heads of Governments of all countries and members of their Legislative Arms on the plights of the Indigenous People of Biafra as we face extermination by the gun-toting and trigger-happy armed agents of Nigeria under the order of Muhammadu Buhari’’, it noted.
-New Telegraph
Please God should not allow these people return us to the bitter experience of the past #GodBlessNigeria
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