The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday, May 23, 2016 accused President Muhammadu Buhari of venting anger on the eastern states due to his inability to address the national economic challenges that are clearly beyond him and with no economic team in his government to proffer solution to the daunting issues staring at him in the face.
The body said the only sin of the South East is its call for “freedom from a hellish prison” where the south easterners do not have a future for themselves nor for their children yet unborn.
Hence, it said “As the clock ticks towards Armageddon, IPOB worldwide are convinced more than ever that our freedom from the Nigerian state has become inevitable.
The group accused the federal government of manufacturing false allegations against the region as strategies to justify the mindless oppression on the peaceful and harmless people of the Igbo extraction.
Following this, the group has raised the alarm that the federal government has allegedly planned to systematically carry out a genocide on the South Eastern states of the country.
The allegation was fuelled by the call from the Northern oligarchy calling for the treatment of Biafra agitators as Boko Haram fundamentalists through the instrumentality of the security operatives.
In a statement by IPOB spokespersons and delivered to The Trent by email on Monday, May 23, 2015, Emma Mmezu and Clifford Iroanya, speaking for the group, said the allegation of mass killing of Igbos was a development not to be taken lightly by the Igbo people.
“These sponsored groups, stoked ember of hatred and prepared the ground for the horrendous three wave pogrom of 29th May – 2nd June 1966, 29th July – 2nd August 1966, and 29th Sept – 2nd October 1966 in which hundreds of thousands of Easterners mostly women and children, were systematically slaughtered all over Northern Nigerians,” the statement said.
“Those faceless groups, that prepared the grounds for the unprecedented genocide, quickly disappeared into thin air.”
“In 2016, another faceless group, Northern Consensus Movement, which claims to be a coalition of northern groups, even though only President Buhari’s Miyetti Allah turned out the only recognizable group among obviously fake others, alleged that hundreds of Northerners are being killed in the South East, and went on to advise the federal government to treat IPOB the way it treated Boko Haram.”
The group said despite the alleged plot against the south east, the South Easterners have never attacked northerners in the Igbo land, saying their allegation of northerners being massacred in the South East was false as they could not state the community or state where their people were massacred and their property destroyed.
It said it is on President Muhammadu Buhari’s northern groups that have consistently raised the alarm against the Igbos, accusing Buhari of orchestrating anger against the Igbos.
It said the northerners’ agenda of conquering the South East through the military is in furtherance of the northern born-to-rule ideology.
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