The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the untenable all...
The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably
led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the untenable
allegation by the security agencies that IPOB was responsible for the
assassination of former presidential aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed
Gulak on his way to Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri Imo State.
We therefore state without equivocations that IPOB knows
nothing about the said assassination. In the first place, what threat did the
late Gulak constitute to our cause to warrant his elimination? We had nothing
in common with him and could not have in any way killed him.
Pointing accusing fingers at IPOB for this barbaric act is
only meant to divert attention away from the real masterminds. This is the same
way terrorists in security uniform commit various atrocities in South East and
turn around to blame IPOB for their crimes just to tarnish our global
reputation. This is purely a smokescreen to justify their long awaited plan to
declare another special military operation in the Eastern region to kill more
innocent Biafrans.
Instead of the security agencies to properly investigate the
incident and possible factors they were switch to accuse IPOB of a crime we
know nothing about. Did IPOB have the itinerary of the late Gulak to have
waylaid him at the airport?
Before linking IPOB with the crime the jaundiced zoo
security agencies should have first investigated Gulak's host, Hope Uzodima, as
well as his political opponents to establish their possible involvement.
This is akin to the allegation by the Lagos Commissioner of
Police who raised false alarm recently that IPOB and ESN were planning to
attack Lagos State. This was to conceal the plans by the terrorists patronising
Nigeria Government to use their imported terrorists to bomb soft targets in the
City of Lagos and blame it on IPOB. But thank God some discerning minds
understood their antics and did not fall for their cheap propaganda.
We are not surprised that they quickly pointed accusing
fingers at us just as they have always looked for every opportunity to
incriminate us to frustrate our struggle for Biafra restoration. But this too
will not fly because the world is aware that IPOB is a peaceful movement. IPOB
is not a terrorist organization and does not spill blood.
Had the late Chief of Army Staff Attahiru's plane crashed in
the East, definitely, the
so-called Intelligence Agency would say
it was IPOB that shot down the plane and everyone in Fulani controlled Sharia
core North would believe it. For us, linking IPOB with the assassination of
Gulak is simply to pitch the East against the core Islamic North as a cover and
justification for another round of pogrom against Easterns living in the North.
We are only after the restoration of Biafra. Assassination
of politicians is not part of our agenda otherwise we would have killed the
Efulefu politicians in the Eastern region sabotaging our struggle.
We are in mournful mood ahead of the May 31st Biafra
Remembrance Day in honour of our fallen heroes. The terrorists in security
uniform looking for any slightest opportunity to blackmail us should not cash
in on the sit-at-home order given by our Leader for our fallen heroes. The
order is for Monday and not Sunday. People were freely moving about on the
streets of Biafra without any molestations by IPOB and there was no way we
could have singled out Gulak for attack because we a non-violent movement.
Once again we urge the illiterate and clearly unintelligent
agencies masquerades as intelligence agencies we have in Nigeria to please
leave IPOB out of their messy incompetence. We challenge Aso Rock to Institute
an independent panel of inquiry to investigate the incident and expose those
behind this gruesome murder of an innocent man.
Our hearts go out to the family of Gulak. May his soul rest
in peace.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
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