Security agencies are allegedly protecting terrorists and bandits who kill innocent civilians in the North while hunting down peaceful protesters in the South-East, according to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The pro-Biafran group said that the Nigerian military had maintained “conspiratorial silence” regarding the recent and ongoing fatal terrorist strikes against innocent civilians in Nigeria’s northern region.
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Emma Powerful, the spokesperson for IPOB, made these claims in a statement on Friday. She noted that the horrendous killings in the North had not been accompanied by the “ethnojingoist” animosity that generally follows any act of insecurity committed by the Nigerian military in the South-East.
The statement read, “Recently, terrorists from northern Nigeria have laid siege to Niger, Zamfara and Plateau, killing and maiming soldiers, downing Air Force helicopter and abducting countless number of terrified civilians.
“Curiously and rather unfortunate, there has remained a partial to total media blackout of these brutal terrorist attacks by northern elements on their communities because of the reluctance of those in power not to cast those responsible in bad light.
“One wonders how the DSS, Nigeria military, Air Force and Police are not able to discover the hideouts of these Northern terrorists and bandits, but claim they are discovering and bombing non-existent IPOB-ESN camps in the rain forests of Biafraland?
“Security agencies in Nigeria living large on appropriated billions of dollars in the name of fighting insecurity are scam artists. They should stop chasing shadows in the South-East claiming they are looking for IPOB and ESN operatives.
“Had Nigeria Air Force jet come down in the South-East during an alleged operation against ESN, all news outlets and pundits would have condemned every Igbo man alive by now.
“Federal Government and its security agencies are experts in dishing out fake information against the peaceful IPOB as a cover to unleash shameless soldiers to maim, intimidate, and molest unarmed, civilians in the South-East.”
