IPoB accuses Police boss of intimidating Igbos amid Fulani attacks, invasion

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) has raised alarm over what it describes as intimidation of Igbos in Abia State by the state’s Police Commissioner.

The pro-Biafra group claims that while Igbos are being targeted by the police, Fulani attackers continue to assault their communities with impunity.

In a statement titled “IPoB Warns Abia Police Commissioner to Stop Intimidation, Ndigbo Must Defend Themselves Against Fulani Attackers,” the group expressed grave concern over recent actions taken by the police in the state. IPoB alleges that the Police Commissioner summoned leaders from the Nkpa community in Isikwuato Local Government Area over fabricated claims that they were involved in the murder of a Fulani herdsman.

The group has warned the police commissioner to cease such alleged intimidation, stressing that actions of this nature could further inflame tensions between local communities and their Fulani visitors.

IPoB urged the people of the region to stand firm in defending themselves against any further attacks.

IPoB’s ststement read, “The attention of the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, worldwide has been drawn to the summoning of some leaders from Nkpa community in Isikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State by the Abia State Police Commissioner, over the false accusations of the murder of a terrorist herdsman in their community.

“The IPOB intelligence unit has confirmed that Abia State Police Commissioner and his group of clueless and unprofessional officers summoned the leaders of Nkpa community for defending their community against the murderous terrorists getdsmen who rape their women and kidnap people for ransom.

“The terrorists’ herdsmen informed their brothers in the Nigerian Police that the community murdered one of their terrorist brothers. The terrorists are setting the stage to invade the community with this false accusation. The false alarm was a strategy to use the Nigerian Police to intimidate the Nkpa community for obstructing their terrorists’ plans.

“The terrorists’ sympathetic Nigerian Police Commissioner in Abia State should stop intimidating our people in order to leave their communities vulnerable for a violent ethnic community to attack and kill them at will.
“We want to warn the Abia Police boss that the ESN does not need the communities’ approval to defend our land against any terrorists. We learnt that some people from Nkpa community were invited by the Abia State Police Commissioner for interrogations.
“The list of the invitees are Mazi Ernest Lekweke – Youth leader, Bishop elect Ugoo Nwosu, the President General of the community, the woman leader, and the community Vigilante commander, Mazi Okechukwu Felix Okoro.

“We were reliably informed that the Abia Police Commissioner, through his proxy officers, grilled the above-named persons for hours and forced them to accept that a Fulani terrorist was killed in their community when no such thing happened.

“The Nigerian Police is pressuring the people to accept the case of Fulani murder and to produce those responsible. The question IPoB is asking the Nigerian Police is how many times have the Nigerian Police invited Fulani leaders for interrogations over uncountable terrorist attacks by the Fulani herdsmen anywhere in Igbo land?

“The Abia State Police Commissioner must stop provoking Ndigbo, he should stop promoting hatred between Ndigbo and Funanis or any ethnic group. If anything untoward happens to those people they interrogated and the Nkpa community, the Police Commissioner will be held responsible.

“It is important that the Abia State Police Commissioner support those defending themselves against terrorists herdsmen’s invasion or leave them alone. The terrorist ethnic group masquerading as herdsmen are always the actual aggressors against indigenous Nigerians, but they deceptively claim to be victims anywhere they are.
“These invaders are the most violent and dangerous ethnic group in sub-Saharan Africa and have been named among the most dangerous terror groups in the world.

“It is obvious that the Muslim -Muslim Presidency ticket and term in office is a secret code for the continuation and completion of the Fulanization agenda in Nigeria. The terrorists have killed thousands of civilians and security forces across Nigeria, yet the government of Nigeria has never proscribed them as terrorists.

“The entire State Institutions from the Nigerian Judiciary, Police, Army, DSS, etc, are colluding with them in their quest to kill, destroy, displace, and occupy indigenous people’s communities in Nigeria.

“When we tell people that the Nigerian government is behind the Fulani murderous terrorist activities, some ignorant Nigerians argue. A few days ago, the public was awash with a sickening judgement from the Nigeria Supreme Court that upheld a death sentence by hanging from a High Court Judge in Yobe against a man called Sunday Jackson for defending himself against a Fulani terrorist 10 years ago.

“The Nigerian government, her security agencies, and the judiciary are accomplices. Perhaps they are either under mysterious powers or they are all working hard to establish Nigeria as a radical extremist Islamic Caliphate. But as long as IPoB and ESN are concerned, Biafra land will not bow to radical Islamic conquest.

“Biafra land is not a conquered territory and will never be conquered. IPoB worldwide is bringing to the attention of the Abia Police Commissioner and the terrorist sympathetic federal government that IPoB will never allow their plans to intimidate Ndigbo nor to defend themselves against the rampaging terrorists.

“Self-defense is an inalienable right of every person. Only a tree will stand and watch while being cut down. The Nigerian government and her compromised judiciary and security are all colluding to frustrate people’s efforts to defend themselves against the state-sponsored terrorists.
“IPoB refuses to allow Ndigbo to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks without resistance. Terrorists masquerading as herdsmen cannot be allowed to kill our people without resisting them.
IPoB is, therefore, calling on Ndigbo at home and in the Diaspora to mobilise resources and prepare to defend themselves against terrorists and invaders who enjoy the support of the Nigerian government and her security forces.
“We can not fold our arms and watch these marauding terrorists attack and kill our people at will. Self-defense is lawful even when the Nigerian Supreme Court tried to take away the inalienable right of people to defend themselves with their perverse judgement against Mr. Sunday Jackson.
“ESN operatives will be on the ground in many parts of Biafra land to defend our people and deal with the terrorists. Biafrans should get in touch with ESN through our contact lines when under threat from the janjaweed terrorists.

“ESN does not need approval from community leaders, PGs, or vigilante commanders to go after terrorists. ESN operatives are not answerable to any community leader on matters involving the security of our land.
“The ESN was solely formed to deter and to defeat the terrorists’ attacks and destruction in Biafra land. The Abia State Police Commissioner, be warned! Biafra land is not Yobe State, where Mr. Sunday Jackson was sentenced to death by an ethnic sympathetic judge for defending himself against a Fulani terrorist.
“Such a barbaric and disgusting judgment is one of the reasons Nigeria remains irredeemable. To deter the terrorist plans, the ESN tactical team has been ordered to move into the area and to comb the Nkpa community and its environs.

“They have the order of DOS and leadership of IPoB to deal with any terrorists found inside the bushes and forests in Biafraland. Biafra land is not where terrorists, irrespective of their ethnic group, can carry out their terrorist attacks without consequences.”