The Indigenous People of Biafra have made new
allegations against security agencies as the
struggle for the actualization of Biafra continues.
IPOB, on Friday raised the alarm over the fate of
its dead members and those arrested during the
bloody Biafra Day clashes, alleging plans by the
security agencies to execute the detainees and
give them mass burial along with those already
killed.
its dead members and those arrested during the
bloody Biafra Day clashes, alleging plans by the
security agencies to execute the detainees and
give them mass burial along with those already
killed.
According to ThisDay, IPOB raised the concern in a
statement issued by the head of media and
publicity, Emma Powerful, saying the separatist
movement was still mourning its dead only “to
discover that the Nigerian Army and Police have
decided to kill those they arrested alive and bury
them with the dead bodies they carried.
“As IPOB families and Biafrans mourn our dead
brethrens with big hearts, the Nigerian government
and security agents are busy perfecting a strategy
to kill unarmed civilians they arrested during the
events and bury all with the dead Biafrans in a
mass grave within Anambra state,” the statement
said.
IPOB also expressed anger at the attitude of the
Anambra state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, whom
it accused of visiting the Army barracks at Onitsha
and saw the dead bodies of slain activists but
failed to intervene in the behalf of the detainees.
According to IPOB, Obiano was quite aware that
those arrested on the May 30 Remembrance Day
“were being tortured to death by security agencies
without charging them to court” yet the Anambra
chief executive did not condemn it.
