FG Sponsored Fake News Against Us - IPOB

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra has called out the federal government for sponsoring fake news that it has been proscribed by the United Kingdom.

 

Recall that the UK later denied such report saying IPOB is not proscribed in the country.

 

In a statement on Sunday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the rush with which the Federal Government celebrated the said inaccurate information only confirmed that the government of Nigeria sponsored the “fake” news.

 

Powerful accused the FG of sponsoring insecurity and banditry in the South-East while linking it to IPOB in desperation to demonise the group and present it as a terrorist organisation before the global community.

 

He added that IPOB is a peaceful movement seeking to free the indigenous Nigerians from the bondage the government of the day put every tribe in Nigeria.

 

He said, “We wish to clarify that there is no iota of truth in the said malicious report planted and being peddled by the enemies of Biafra freedom and independence. Nothing more may be said about the clarification already given by the British High Commission in Abuja. The said report is untrue and should be disregarded.

 

The group commended the British High Commission for putting the records straight while asking it to condemn the numerous abductions, killings, and r#pes by Fulani bandits and other terrorists in the South-East region, especially the killings of Agatu in Benue; Southern Kaduna; Uzouwan in Nsukka, Enugu State; Plateau; and the rest of Middle Belt Region since 2014.

 

The statement read, “Nigeria kills its citizens like the recent case in Imo State where an Army couple was beheaded after the woman was allegedly raped. Can you believe this, all in a bid to nail IPOB and justify the likely military invasion of our land?