The Indigenous People of Biafra (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.
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.
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