The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the blocking of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s Facebook account following his live broadcast on Tuesday night February 2.
Like they did
to ex-US President, Donald Trump, Facebook blocked the account of Kanu. The
social media platform is yet to disclose the reason for blocking his page.
In a
statement released this afternoon, the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful,
said Facebook only succeeded in “partnering with perpetrators of human rights
abuses and other criminal activities masterminded by the Nigeria State against
innocent citizens.”
He stated
that no matter how hard the message of its leader was suppressed, the struggle
for Biafra liberation would not be slowed down, urging its teeming audience to
follow Kanu on other IPOB’s numerous platforms.
The statement
reads
“The
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is appalled at the despicable attitude of
Facebook for blocking the Facebook page of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, after
his expository and explosive live broadcast on Tuesday night. It is not only
baffling but too petty for a global social media giant like Facebook to allow
itself to be used by agents of oppression in Nigeria to suppress the truth.
We strongly
condemn this attitude of Facebook Managers in Lagos and Abuja who collude with
corrupt Nigerian government officials to suppress free flow of Information via
their platform.
This
unconscionable and reprehensible attitude amounts to partnering with
perpetrators of human rights abuses and other criminal activities masterminded
by the Nigeria State against innocent citizens.
The federal
government and its foot soldiers – terrorist herdsmen and bandits – have
continued to subjugate indigenous nations in the country including Biafrans
with the intent for conquest. These foot soldiers on daily basis unleash all
sorts of mayhem on the innocent and hapless indigenous peoples while the
federal government mischievously remains docile.
These
vampires masquerading as herdsmen have forcibly seized our forests and
converted our farms to grazing fields for their cattle. They have equally
turned our ancestral lands to slaughterhouses where they kill with impunity in
most dehumanising manners, innocent locals going about their legitimate
business.
They commit
these crimes unchallenged by security operatives. They kidnap for ransom, maim
and rape our women. They feed their cattle with our crops, and Facebook is
saying we don’t have a right to cry out?
Now that our
Leader has started exposing the atrocities of these wolves in human clothing,
Facebook have decided to be an accomplice to mass murder and oppressive
tendencies of Fulani Janjaweed rulers of Nigeria.
Why should
Facebook block the account of the leader of the largest peaceful mass movement
in the world for speaking the bitter truth people are too terrified to talk
about? Why hasn’t Facebook prevailed on the perpetrators of these heinous
crimes in Nigeria to stop their atrocities instead of denying innocent victims
media access?
Facebook is
quick to fall for the lie of agents of oppression and accuse us of hate speech
but fails to realise that hate action begets hate speech if in Facebook
lexicon, bitter truth translates to hate speech.
This unholy
act is only akin to what Britain and her allies did to Biafra during the
Genocidal War of 1967-70 when they imposed land, air and media blockade on
Biafra in order to deny the truth about the ongoing genocide from coming out.
But our
message to Facebook is simple: no matter how hard you try to suppress the
gospel of truth being preached by our leader, the struggle for Biafra
liberation cannot be slowed down. On the contrary, our efforts will be
intensified because Biafra restoration is a divine mandate that must be
accomplished in this era.
We are very
resolute in our resolve to restore Biafra and will not be deterred. If you like
block all Biafran activists on your platform, we shall keep pushing on until
Biafra is fully restored.
We therefore,
wish to encourage our leader’s teeming global audience to follow him and hook
up to his live broadcasts via IPOB’s numerous other platforms. Our leader can
be followed through many other platforms such as: Twitter YouTube, IPOB
Community Radio app, Radio Biafra app, Satellite and FM.
May we
therefore remind all those local staff of Facebook in Lagos and Abuja that but
for Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, their families in their communities would have today
been overrun by herdsmen and terrorists. An accomplice to a cruel man will
surely get the reward of cruelty!”
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