Pro-Biafra
group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has on Sunday, June 19,
2016 declared support for the new militant group operating in the
oil-rich region of Southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Avengers.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra, under
the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, hereby state that we support our
kith and kin – the Niger Delta Avengers who are fighting for the freedom
of our people from the enslaving Islamic Republic of Nigerian
Government,” a statement signed by IPOB spokespersons, Emma Nmezu
and Clifford Iroanya, said.
The Niger Delta Avengers is a militant
group waging a campaign against oil production in Nigeria with a view of
obtaining a free Niger Delta Republic.
The Avengers have presented an 11-point demand
to the Nigerian government, one of them is the release of the Nnamdi
Kanu, the leader of IPOB who is being held by the Muhammadu Buhari
government on charges of treason.
“Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of IPOB must
be released unconditionally as the court said,” the Niger Delta
Avengers listed as a demand on its website in February 2016.
Another pro-Biafra group, the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign Biafra, MASSOB, pledged allegiance to the Niger Delta Avengers.
Read the full IPOB press release reproduced below:
Press Release
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA SUPPORT OUR KITH & KIN – THE NIGER DELTA AVENGERS
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB)
under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu hereby state that we support
our kith and kin – the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, who are fighting for
the freedom of our people from the enslaving Islamic Republic of
Nigerian Government. We want to place it on record that IPOB under the
leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has no connection with some groups who
are claiming on the pages of Nigerian newspapers that they do not
support our fellow freedom fighters – the NDA.
We make reference to a particular group
which is a well-known turncoat and their leader who has been bribed
with oil blocks allocations in the oil-rich areas of Biafraland. This
same compromised group is known to have started the ugly incidence of
kidnapping in Biafraland and their members often used as thugs and hired
killers for politicians in Nigeria.
The NDA have consistently stated that
the release of IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a precondition for any
discussion with Nigeria. Unfortunately and disgracefully, the
incompetent and intellectually challenged Nigerian Government has swept
this demand under the carpet while magnifying the notion of amnesty
payments and resource control as reasons for the NDA‘s actions. For the
avoidance of doubt, the NDA is fighting for the freedom of the people of
Biafra and not for amnesty payment or for resource control as some
commentators would like to believe. When Biafra is finally liberated
from the bondage called Nigeria, resources shall be controlled by the
owners of the land where those resources are located. The perennially
incompetent Nigerian Government should stop deceiving the entire world
into believing that what the freedom fighters of NDA are demanding is
resource control.
Amnesty is associated with criminality
and a people who are fighting for their freedom should not be unjustly
termed criminals. The notion and talk of amnesty for our own freedom
fighters (the NDA) is a misnomer and should be taken out of any
discourse. On the contrary, amnesty should be granted to the Nigerian
Government especially to those from the criminal class masquerading as
elites who unjustly appropriated oil & gas wells and other resources
in Biafraland to themselves and their cohorts to the detriment of the
masses. These robbers should be associated with amnesty for their
economic criminality not the NDA.
As far as IPOB and the generality of
Biafrans are concerned, the NDA is doing the right thing by demanding
the freedom our people from the perpetually repressive Nigerian state.
Unlike some groups pretending to be Biafran freedom fighters, the NDA
and IPOB have a common ideology and objective which is the absolute
liberation of the nation of Biafra from the British-contraption created
by an alien called Frederick Lugard who is not even a black African. It
defies logic to think that a white man can come all the way from Britain
to create and name a country in already inhabited Africa for black
people,
Ironically, most of the leaders of the
compromized groups are speaking against the great work that the NDA are
doing. These shameless scavenging Hausa-Fulani sponsored slaves in
Biafraland have placed the needs of their stomach and their families
above the overall national interest of the liberation of their people
who are under the enslavement of the Nigerian Government in concert with
the British Government who have never supported the liberation of any
christian country in the world. The leaders of these obviously
compromised groups have gone into hotel business, real estate industry,
oil & gas extraction business and other profit-generating endeavours
and have for long abandoned the quest for the freedom of the people of
Biafra.
It is not a surprise therefore that
these compromized groups have now come out to distance themselves from
the genuine efforts of the NDA that is aimed at fulfilling the yearning
and expectations of every Biafran. We reiterate that IPOB is totally and
absolutely in support of the NDA as they march towards the
unconditional liberation of our people from the evil grip of Nigerian
Government. We plead with the NDA not to be discouraged by the comments
and antics of these so-called leaders of these compromized groups and
some other charlatans who parade themselves as freedom fighters. The NDA
should know that the only ally they have now is IPOB under the
leadership of Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB is warning the extremist Nigerian
Government of Buhari that should they invade any part of Biafraland, as
intelligence indicate they are planning to, then IPOB will order every
youth in Biafraland to join NDA to defend Biafraland. Muhammadu Buhari
and his gangs massacred Biafrans in their millions at Owerri in 1968 but
Biafrans will never allow such atrocity to be repeated on Biafraland
ever again. We shall fight to the last man standing because Biafra is
our life and the restoration of the nation of Biafra is a task that must
be achieved.
IPOB wholeheartedly support the NDA as
they work diligently and heroically towards the liberation of all parts
of Biafraland from the Lugard created abomination called Nigeria.
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokespersons for IPOB
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