Tosin Olatokunbo
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has disclosed that the group has not abandoned its struggle to lead the people of the south east to secede from Nigeria becuase his people continue to suffer untold hardship under President Muhamamdu Buhari’s administration.
The president recently, through Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity affirmed that his administration is not working against the interest of the people of the south east.
“Buhari has demonstrated uncommon goodwill towards the people of the South-East,” the presidential adviser said recently.
Responding to the issue, Kanu who flee the country in 2017 after security forces attacked his Umuahia, Abia state home said Buhari “can only deceive the gullible but certainly not those familiar with history.”
The IPOB leader in a statement by his spokesman Emma Powerful said his people have suffered greatly under the administration.
Contrary to Adesina’s claim “The truth rather, is that people of Biafra have continued to be victims of state persecution and calculated elimination.
Biafrans have been slaughtered at the slightest provocation on several occasions since the unholy amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914.
Nigeria Government and her partners in crime are sponsoring the killings and heartless massacre of Biafrans since 1945 till date.”
He condemned the genocide against his people by security forces and other state sponsored groups.
Kanu said “It is still fresh in our memory how this present Federal Government led by Buhari and his cabals killed innocent, peaceful and unarmed members of IPOB in Aba, Onitsha, Nkpor, Umuahia, Asaba, Igweocha, Enugu, Owerri and other cities.
Fulani terrorists, Boko Haram and terrorist groups have continued to slaughter with reckless abandon, Christians in Nigeria particularly Southern Kaduna Indigenes and Biafrans in their farms and villages, yet the Federal Government has done nothing drastic to stop the genocide.
“Ordinary designating the killer herdsmen terrorists has become a difficult task for the Federal Government which ironically tagged unarmed IPOB a terror group with the speed of light.”
He challenged Buhari to demonstrate his love for the South east.
According to him “How does a government which pampers globally acknowledged terror groups but suppresses and kills peaceful agitators want to prove its innocence of bloodshed?
On their unsubstantiated claims of being the best thing that has happened to Ndi Igbo, IPOB is challenging Femi Adesina, Arthur Eze and their likes in this Government to show Nigerians, Biafrans and World at large what they did and where this government and cabals sited any tangible federal project in Biafraland.”
He said the south east has not been fairly treated in the area of capital projects distribution by the federal government, adding that the region has been abandoned since Buhari came to power five years ago wondering “why the Nigerian government will claim to have executed 69 different projects, and spent N680 billion in South East alone without showing or mentioning where those projects are sited.”
In view of these injustices, Kanu said “We are leaving Nigeria in the shortest possible time. Time for this fake, concocted and deceptive news has gone and there is nothing anybody can do to change our resolve to restore Biafra freedom and independence from Nigeria.”
