Read statement after the cut as shared by the group's media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful...
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and it's leadership worldwide find it distasteful that Nigerian Government and her security agencies, notably the army and police, had the temerity to deny their involvement in the killing, maiming and illegal detention of our family members following the IPOB Trump solidarity rally on the 20th of January 2017. It has become routine for police and army in Nigeria to kill and lie. They now, as a matter of course, deny every mass killing they carry out in Nigeria, with the help of certain segments of the local media. What they the Nigerian Government don't understand is that the world has moved on from 1966. This is no longer the era such heinous crimes are committed in broad daylight and the perpetrators hope to get away with it by paying a few government friendly publications to carry what is in essence a calculated lie, concocted to deceive the public. The police and army, acting on the instructions of the presidency, carried out the seventh such cold blooded massacre and premeditated murder of IPOB members since August 2015.
This shameful episode of what I'm essence amount to state sponsored terrorism will inevitably lead to armed conflict sooner or later unless the culprits are made to face justice. From those that issued the orders from Aso Rock to the hapless ill trained recruit that squeezed the trigger, must face trial. We IPOB are placing humanity on notice that events of 20th of January 2017 will be the last time IPOB will march without self defence mechanism in place. Nobody should say we did not warn them because we will continue to march until Biafra is restored. Freedom and right to associate, assemble and protest is one we must continue to exercise or else tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism will prevail.
Unlike those in Nigeria that ordered the cold blooded execution of IPOB members legitimately seeking their God guaranteed right to self determination, the world is fully aware as to what transpired on Friday 20 January 2017, going by the global coverage and outrage such barbaric act received. The police and army in Rivers State may have succeeded in convincing themselves that they have gotten away with the cold blooded massacre of innocent people along with a segment of Lagos Abuja cabal that think they will die without money from crude oil and gas- but the wider public is not fooled. A country cannot function on the basis of lies and public deception run by natural born liars and deceivers who are infinitely incapable of telling the truth.
We IPOB have duly notified every major government in the world and supplied video and photographic evidence to substantiate our claim. Nigerian Government can deny their culpability from now until eternity, the fact remains that we have all their actions on tape. All over the world there were anti Trump rallies held without a single loss of life. Even in Washington DC itself, there were violent protests and we repeat violent protests but not a single soul was shot, talk less of being shot to death. The world must know that governance in Nigeria has become so crude and uncivilised that acts clearly provided for in the constitution and safeguarded under the law are termed illegal by enforcement agents with limited understanding of the provisions of their own constitution to the point that wholesale massacre is condoned and in this case justified.
The public is hereby placed on notice that these killings cannot continue unchecked because we have and must invoke our right to self defense very soon. No Fulani herdsmen has been arrested or killed, Boko Haram terrorists are being released without charge, murderers of Christians in the name of Islam in Southern Kaduna, Agatu in Benue State, NIMBO and Uzo Uwani in Enugu are being set free but the public appear comfortable with the massacre of innocent IPOB members rallying for Trump. If and when IPOB decide to implement the principles of self defence, the world must not apportion any blame to us. This trigger happy approach of the Nigerian security agencies to any peaceful gathering of people was precisely what gave rise to the menace called Boko Haram. Today the world talk about Boko Haram as if they miraculously sprang up from the ground, when it was the cold blooded execution of Mohammed Yusuf the group leader and extra judicial killings of members in Maidugiri that led to the insurgency. These facts have been hidden from the public and that has enabled the police and army to keep killing with impunity.
How the civil society can allow Nigerian security agencies, especially the soldiers and police to kill unarmed civilians and members of IPOB and yet have the temerity to call the media to deny the killings while video footage and other evidence exist, is beyond human comprehension. The police and army in Rivers State have taken the art of telling lies to a new unedifying height. What the Nigerian Government failed to understand is that they are dealing with IPOB not any other group of people who don't know what they are doing.
As the killings were going on, we promptly informed the US Embassy in Abuja, the British High Commission, Italian Embassy, EU and UN missions in Abuja were notified too. If not for their timely intervention, the casualty figures would have been unbearably high. We commend all of them.
This killings in Igweocha Port Harcourt on the 20th of January 2017 goes to confirm what Amnesty International and other human right organisations annual reports last year observed against the Nigeria Government and her security agencies. They kill and deny but unfortunately for them we IPOB always have evidence to nail them, so their lies will never stand scrutiny. It is also incumbent upon media houses to take time to investigate the version of events narrated by the police to see of they are lying or not. No society can advance or make progress if truth cannot be told by those in power or accuracy ascertained by the press.
IPOB have all the videos and pictures to show to the world how the Nigerian murderous security agents killed the unarmed members who were jubilating on the inauguration day of the new American President Mr Donald J Trump.
The Nigeria Government led by Major General Muhamadu Buhari and his security agencies have proven once again how primitive, barbaric and unprofessional they are by killing groups of people who were doing nothing wrong except partake in solidarity rally for the new American president.
In January 2009 there was a solidarity rally in support of the then elected President Barack Obama in Nigeria no killing was recorded because he is a Muslim. Following the 2015 general elections there was a celebration for Major General Muhamadu Buhari in the Northern parts of Nigeria and other part of the country but there were no killings of any sort recorded against security agencies.
Initially, the Nigeria police denied that there was no death but later changed their statement to acknowledge they killed one person. They later changed it again to say nobody died. Which version is the public expected to believe? They keep changing their story. The video evidence is there to show to the entire world that 20 people were killed by the Nigerian Government during the said rally for Trump.
IPOB is a highly efficient and intelligent organisation with many professionals and security experts scattered all over the world. Every action carried out by the Buhari regime against the quest to restore Biafra is meticulously recorded for the day of reckoning which is fast approaching.
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