Biafra protests: Hide your face in shame, IPOB tells IGP
- Nigeria's Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase has been taken to the cleaners
- The IGP drew the wrath of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over his recent comment on their activities
- Arase had ordered for the disarmament of the group
IPOB has responded to calls by IGP Solomon Arase for his men to disarm them in order to quell their agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra.
In a statement released to the media yesterday, June 1 by the group's spokespersons, Clifford Iroanya and Emma Nmezu, IPOB stated that the IGP should hide his face in shame for the statement he made.
The statement was titled ''The retiring & tired IGP Solomon Arase and his unfounded allegations against IPOB."
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According to the group, Arase is complicating and deepening his indictment, conviction, and sentencing at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
In a direct jab at the IGP, the part of the IPOB statement read: ''Mr Solomon Ehigiator Arase, you are aware of the menace of Boko Haram, the serial killings of Biafrans by Buhari’s killer squad known as Fulani Herdsmen, and the extra-judicial killings of Biafrans by Nigerian security outfits, yet you have failed to issue a single press statement on them.
''But you shamefully issued tissues of lies which you called press statement even after your policemen and Nigerian soldiers killed unarmed Biafrans some of them in their sleep inside a church as they prepare to remember their fallen heroes and some of these fallen heroes were similarly killed by Buhari in 1968 at Owerri.
''Mr. Arase, as you retire on June 21, 2016, be it known to you that you will have no rest until you get to your final destination which is ICC prison in the Hague.
''You can tell all the lies in the world and try to manufacture evidence for your colleagues in the DSS so that they can use it against the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu who is currently standing trial in court but the incontrovertible fact is that nobody can stop the restoration of the nation of Biafra.
''The restoration of the nation of Biafra is an ideology and no human being born of a woman has ever defeated or exterminated an ideology.''
IPOB informed Arase that the consequences of his actions are limitless, adding that it can include members of his immediate and extended family.
''No one takes a Biafran life and gets away Scot-free,'' the statement said.
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Not done, the group also stated that ''It is a shame that Solomon Arase is displaying crass incompetence and ignorance by lying through his teeth with concoctions that IPOB members were armed and that they attacked Nigerian policemen and killed two of them in Asaba, Delta state on Saturday, May 30.
''Perhaps he would have saved himself this embarrassment by conducting thorough investigation and checking with the CP in Anambra state.
''Now the entire world has seen through his lies and he is complicating and deepening his indictment, conviction, and sentencing at the ICC with these latest lies from the pit of hell.''
Meanwhile, prominent Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned against the use of excessive force on pro-Biafra protesters in the South east region and beyond.
In a statement released to the media yesterday, June 1, the group accused security agencies of carrying out mass murder in Anambra state in the name of quelling the protests.
Source: Legit.ng
