Afrigather The Indigenous Individuals of Biafra has debunked the hearsay making the rounds that it was accountable for the assaults on the workplaces of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, in Imo State.
This was as IPOB famous it was not within the nation’s forthcoming basic elections, saying these associating it with the 2023 polls lacked the sufficient data of the rules on which it operates.
The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Highly effective, acknowledged this in an announcement, on Monday, a duplicate of which was made out there to The PUNCH. He claimed that safety brokers have been behind the assaults on public services and communities within the South-East geopolitical zone to forged it and its safety arm, the Jap Safety Community in dangerous mild.
The assertion learn partly, “We, the worldwide household and motion of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, underneath the command and management of the good liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, want to disassociate ourselves from the latest assaults on INEC workplace in Owerri Imo State.
“Neither IPOB nor ESN operatives has something to do with Nigeria fraud elections in 2023. Now we have by no means supported nor concerned ourselves in any election obstruction or violence as a motion. The one actions we will take is to name our individuals to boycott voting if the necessity arises. However as of in the present day, IPOB is just not excited by Nigeria and its electoral actions and have by no means requested anybody to hold out any assault on our behalf.
“For the Nigeria authorities and her compromised police to hyperlink IPOB and ESN to their sponsored assaults on INEC workplaces has proven that they’re deluded, misguided, deceitful, and don’t know the norms on which IPOB operations. Nigeria authorities and her safety businesses are working day and night time to blackmail IPOB self-determination motion. They sponsor criminals to assault authorities services to allow them to rush to media in charge the assaults on IPOB and ESN with out investigation.
“There has by no means been anytime that Nigeria Police carried out any public inquiry on all of the quite a few assaults and arsons that they blamed IPOB for. It’s apparent that Nigeria police have misplaced each skilled ethics and are utterly irredeemable, so we name for Nigeria to be balkanized in order that progressive Nations will emerge to kind responsive and accountable authorities entities like upright police establishments.
“ESN operatives by no means attacked INEC workplace as a result of we aren’t on this Nigeria’s forthcoming election in 2023. Anybody or group blaming IPOB or ESN for any assault on INEC services is underneath the affect of some highly effective medication. IPOB won’t spare anyone utilizing our title to disrupt election, and no physique ought to hyperlink us with those that are destroying election supplies.”
It added additional that the attackers of public services have been solely doing so to smear the picture of the secessionist group.
“Each authorities businesses and people attacking INEC services are working collectively to blackmail IPOB. That’s the reason the identical safety businesses have by no means arrested any of the so known as attackers. Each Nigeria police propaganda and blackmail in opposition to IPOB and ESN will destroy what’s remaining of Nigeria Police integrity earlier than the general public and the worldwide neighborhood.
“Biafrans and Nigerians ought to watch our fingers and see that we aren’t concerned in such dastardly act. Nigeria authorities is utilizing their fulanised police to destroy elections supplies and tagging it on IPOB-ESN whereas we’re harmless of all of their allegations.
“Our chief Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has mentioned it a number of occasions that he has not requested anybody to hold out any assault on his behalf, subsequently no physique ought to hyperlink us with the assault on INEC workplace in Owerri Imo State. IPOB is a civilised and disciplined Biafra independence motion. We aren’t criminals nor are we a part of their election thugs.
“Nigeria authorities, polititcians, and her safety businesses are recruiting criminals and hoodlums to assault election supplies and linking it to IPOB and ESN.
“Each sponsored blackmail in opposition to IPOB won’t cease us as a substitute, it’s going to encourage us to press on for Biafra restoration.”
