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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has registered its grievances over what it described as unfair treatment of its members by the Federal Government.
This is as it claimed recent events has proved that Igbo were no longer wanted in Nigeria.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, yesterday, the group alleged that other social organisations and agitators were justly treated, but deplored a situation where its members were targeted and either killed, maimed or arrested by security agencies in the country.
Powerful recalled that on April 6, members of the Islamic Shiites Movement of Nigeria again embarked on another peaceful protest within the FCT with no arrests made and no casualties recorded.
He, however, flayed the situation where over 150 of IPOB members protesting the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu at Aba, Abia State were still missing even after their peaceful protest was disrupted by security agents.
“We the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of the great liberator, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu are astonished about the unfair treatment of IPOB members in Nigeria. We are surprise that the Nigeria government and its security agencies, especially the army and police allowed the Shiite Islamic group who protested peacefully twice in Abuja to do so without humiliation or attack, but murdered IPOB members who were protesting peacefully in Aba, Abia State for asking for the unconditional release of their leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on the April 3 2023. It is now on record that Ndigbo are not wanted in Nigeria due to the hatred shown to us. During this peaceful protest within the FCT, the combined team of the Nigeria security agents led by the police visited the protesters and peacefully dispersed the crowd with mere teargas, and nothing more. There were no casualties recorded, and no arrests were made.
“On 3 April 2023, members of the non-violent Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) staged a peaceful protest in Aba, Abia State to demand for the release of their leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is still being illegally and unconstitutionally detained in solitary confinement at the facility of the Department of State Services (DSS), headquarters in Abuja.
“We are calling on the American State Department, the UK government, its home office, the GTI group, and other reputable western world institutions to observe the things that the Nigeria government is doing to Ndigbo in Nigeria. We ask that the world not blame us when we start to employ self-defense. The members of IPOB who were peacefully protesting were brutally attacked by the same combined team of the Nigeria security agents. Sadly and unfortunately, this goes to clearly reveal that there are different laws for different groups and nationalities in Nigeria”
Powerful called on the Federal Government, other international bodies and communities, especially Amnesty International and other reputable human rights organisations across the globe, to wade into the recent genocidal massacre in Aba, Abia State to call Nigeria security agents to order.
