IPOB warns members, ESN against guarding oil pipelines

From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned its members and its security arm, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) not to accept any offer to guard Nigeria’s oil pipeline.

Spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful in a statement also urged its members not to derail from the aim of their struggle, adding that such offer is deceptive and dehumanising.

Powerful said “Take cognizance that no IPOB member is allowed to get him/herself entangled or involve in the deceptive and dehumanizing issue of pipeline security being dangled by the oppressor before our people presently in our land.

“It has become imparative to make the position of IPOB leadership very clear on this matter and to at the same time sound a note of warning to all IPOB family members as well as ESN operatives that guarding the crude oli pipeline which the Nigerian government uses to steal our natural resources for Nigeria our oppressor is not and will never be part of IPOB’s core aims and objectives.

“Every IPOB member and ESN operative must advise him/herself properly because any such involvement in this shameful and debilitating act amounts to automatic expulsion from the IPOB worldwide family.

“If you are a true hardcore and dedicated follower of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB worldwide family, do not allow yourself to be associated or entagled with the Nigerian government trap in the form of pipeline security guard.

“IPOB is a freedom fighting movement and we have no business working as security guard to our oppressor so that they may contniue to suck our natural resources dry to the detriment of our Children and generations yet unborn.

“Every IPOB member or ESN operative should distance him/herself from the ongoing pipeline security recruitment process”. Powerful stated.