IPOB spokesperson decided to put the record straight Emma Powerful, claimed that the IEDs were planted to implicate its members and militia arm, the Eastern Security Network, ESN.
According
to report, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday, accused
Nigerian security agents of planting Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, across
the Southeast.
Powerful
was reacting to a statement by the Nigerian Army and Police that IPOB and ESN
planted IEDs in Awo-Mmamma, Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State.
In a
statement he signed, Powerful said the claim by the Army and police that they
thwarted IPOB and ESN attacks using IEDs were false because the explosives are
not from the separatist group.
According
to Powerful: “The attention of the global family of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great liberator and prophet, Mazi Nnamdi KANU,
has been drawn to the fallacious and laughable, statement from the Nigeria Army
and Police, claiming that IPOB/ESN operatives planted IED in Awo-Mmamma and its
nearby community, Mgbidi in Oru East of Imo State.
“The
purported statement and false propaganda that troops thwarted IPOB/ESN attacks
on two Imo communities and uncovered IEDs should be disregarded. This is
another desperate but futile attempt by the Nigerian security agencies to
implicate IPOB and ESN operatives. It, however, did not come to us as a
surprise because it has been their stock in trade. This is another blatant
falsehood.
“For the
records, IPOB and ESN operatives never planted, and have no plans to plant IEDs
in any part of Biafra land. ESN since its inauguration by our leader Mazi
Nnamdi KANU in December last year has never engaged in any terrorist activity.
Its mandate has not changed: protection of our ancestral land against Fulani
herdsmen and bandits attacks.
“It’s only
ridiculous for the security agencies to try to link IPOB or ESN with the
planting of IEDs, when in fact Nigerians know who those who plant IEDs are.
Planting explosives is the signature tune of the Fulani terrorists and bandits.
“Assuming
but not in any way admitting this idiotic trash, if we should resort to the
planting of IEDs, who do we want to kill? What do we want to achieve? How can
we be stupid to begin to plant bombs that will kill our people whom we are
staking our lives daily to protect and defend against Fulani terrorists?
“To
further punctuate their lies, how come these shameless liars claiming to be
security agents are only swift in discovering IEDs purportedly planted by IPOB
and ESN but fail to detect the same IEDs planted by Fulani bandits and
terrorists which have claimed thousands of lives in the North including
security operatives themselves although mainly from Southern Nigeria? It is now
clear that these terrorists in military and police uniforms are working in
cahoot with their rag-tag counterparts in the forests to achieve the same
agenda. While they keep betraying Southern troops serving in the North, these
jihadists and terrorists in security uniforms deployed to Biafra land are now
busy planting IEDs in their desperation to implicate IPOB and ESN.”
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