IPOB Threatens FG Over Nnamdi Kanu’s Disappearance
BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has threatened arm confrontation against the Federal Government if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu continue to remain missing and incommunicado.
IPOB warned that with its patience fast running out, failure by government to produce Kanu without further delay may provoke its members to engage the Buhari administration in other underhand tactics to have their way.
According to the group, President Buhari should know the whereabouts of its leader, insinuating that his obvious abduction by government would not go unchallenged by the teeming members across the country.
IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful said that President Buhari and some South-east leaders should be held responsible for Kanu’s disappearance and conspiracy of silence on the matter.
Calling out the government and its security personnel for allegedly kidnapping Kanu on September 14, 2017 during the raid of his Afaraukwu’s residence in Abia State, the statement said: “We are asking Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Nnia Nwodo and South East governors to produce Nnamdi Kanu because they or their representatives all participated in countless meetings in Abuja and Enugu where modus operandi of the genocidal Operation Python Dance II was agreed and ratified.
“It was as a direct result of military invasion of the home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and massacre of 28 innocent unarmed civilians with many missing that has led us to once again politely ask that our leader be presented to us dead or alive.”
The statement further said; “It is becoming clear to everybody that Muhammadu Buhari, Nnia Nwodo and South East governors are desperately trying to draw IPOB into armed confrontation and militancy to justify their genocidal clampdown on innocent people of the South East and South South.
“Should they continue to defy the laws of natural justice and fair play by not releasing our leader, they may get their wish in no distant time.”
Also, accusing the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo and South East governors as the architects of Python Dance II, the group said these leaders “are under moral obligation to disclose to Igbo people in particular and Biafrans in general the whereabouts of IPOB leader or have themselves to blame.
“We are therefore advising all those culpable in the abduction of our leader, his parents and death of dozens of IPOB family members in Abia and Rivers State to please release our leader to us before things get out of hand.”
Insisting that the ‘struggle for Biafra independence is a task that must be accomplished whether the collaborators like it or not’, IPOB boasted that “no man born of a woman can stop it.”
