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‘We Won’t Accept Army’s Criminal Label On IPOB’ – Pro-Biafra Group Fumes

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Jan 20, 2022.

‘We Won’t Accept Army’s Criminal Label On IPOB’ – Pro-Biafra Group Fumes

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has debunked ownership of a camp in Lilu, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, where soldiers revealed on Tuesday that it neutralised suspected operatives of the group.

Recall the Nigerian Army had in a statement said it dislodged a notorious stronghold of IPOB and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN), in the area in a joint operation.

Reacting, the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB who has the pseudonym, Emma Powerful, in a statement said the group had no camp in the area.

Criminal Label On IPOB contested

IPOB’s statement read in part: “We wish to reiterate that IPOB and ESN operatives have no camp in Lilu in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State.

“We are not militants or criminals and don’t need any camp in Ihiala LGA. We are identifiable and we are all over Biafra land and IPOB branches in the Diaspora.

“Nigeria security agencies are using the hatred they have for the people of Biafra, particularly IPOB and ESN members, to unleash cruelty on the people living in these communities where they suspect that criminals are taking refuge.

“If criminals take refuge in any community in Biafra land, that doesn’t make them IPOB members or ESN operatives.

“We have also not said there are no more criminal gangs in Biafra land just like every other country even in the advanced Western nations. But we won’t accept the tagging of every criminal element found in Biafra as IPOB member or ESN operative.”

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