IPOB Alleges Plan By Army, DSS To Kill Nnamdi Kanu

The group said this was part of the plan of the security agents to impede the Sit-at-home celebration of Biafra Day and remembrance of Biafra fallen heroes and heroines.

The group further claimed that the military planned to unleash terror on their members during the celebration even when they have decided not to march on the streets.

In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB said, “the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, are also hovering round Umuahia near the house of our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Information at our disposal revealed that the soldiers have rented hundreds of youth and procured IPOB T Shirts for them to protest in order for them to swoop on our members in their homes to shoot them.

“They want to use the youths to cause confusion and then have the reason to arrest our leader and Director of radio Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and place another trumped up charge against him, but we will not allow that, our members are not going to march on the streets, we are sitting at home to mark our celebration.

“Right now the people living around Afara Ukwu Ibeku, Umuahia the home town of our leader Mazi Kanu are running out of their respective houses, we suspect that the Army has perfected plans with the DSS to arrest of kill our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Right now, there is sporadic shooting by the combined team of Nigerian security agents, led by the Army and DSS in Umuahia, the state capital and Aba the commercial city of Abia state state, and we are suspecting that they are targeting our leader who has been resting in his home town, Afara Ukwu, Ibeku Umuahia.

“The incessant and sporadic shooting and reign of bullets in Umuahia and Aba by the combine forces of Nigeria security operatives may be targeted against our leader and his family members, even when the Sit-at-home is yet to commence.

“We want to put the whole world on notice, on the plan of the Nigeria Government and her security agencies, who are out again to take lives of the IPOB and other Biafra agitators.

“We are therefore calling on men and women of good conscience across the globe, United Nations, European Union, African Union, Amnesty International and other relevant human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch to call Nigerian government and its security operatives to order.

“Nigerian Government and her security agencies should respect our feeling of honour for our fallen heroes and heroines, we are only remembering the 50 years of Biafra declaration by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and honouring those who died during the war of genocide against our the people of Biafra between 1967 and 1970.

“No matter the threat from the Nigerian security apparatus and their armaments the Biafrans and IPOB members worldwide must honour and remember those killed and starved to death during the war by Nigerian Government and their soldiers.”