By Calis Mbadugha, Imo
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said Monday, that the police should be held responsible for alleged recovery of bomb factory in Ebonyi State, stating that police accusation of IPOB being behind the factory is a blackmail against it.
Reacting through its image maker, Emma Powerful, IPOB stated that it was because of the police failure to find out those behind the setting ablaze of INEC offices and other infrastructures that prompted the police to accuse it of masterminding the attack on INEC office in Ebonyi State.
" Following the frustration and failure among the Nigerian security architecture to blackmail IPOB with burning of INEC and Government infrastructures and killing of security personnel in the East, they have upped their blackmailing game with the so called bomb factory in Ebonyi State.
"We wish to debunk the lies and blackmail business of Nigeria Police linking IPOB and ESN to any so called discovered bomb factory in the South East and arrest of two ESN operatives.
"We want to make it categorically clear that IPOB is innocent of this accusation. Nigeria Police don't even know how to present their blackmail accurately. It is unfortunate that the Nigeria Government is damaging their remaining image and reputation in the bid to blackmail IPOB and deceive the world into perceiving IPOB as terrorists.
"Little did they know that the world has Intel that give them accurate information about IPOB activities. Nigeria Government frustration is hightened because IPOB has defeated them in the global arena as well as on the local stage, even with their huge lobbing efforts against us. IPOB is the only obstacle to their Fulanization agenda, hence the intensified diplomatic and media blackmail. But Elohim sent us on this mission, and He alone will give us victory at the end.
"We advise the media houses in the zoo and others outside Nigeria to investigate issues before reporting. The more they publish unverified reports from Nigeria security agencies, the more they damage the small remaining image of their country before the world and tarnish their own image as well," Emma Powerful stated.
He denied the report that a factional Commander of IPOB was arrested by the Police in Ebonyi adding that ESN and IPOB do not have any faction as IPOB members are individual persons living in their houses while ESN operatives are in the bushes protecting the land from Fulani terrorists herdsmen.
He accused Nigeria Government of trying to create a faction in IPOB and ESN so as to use her sponsored faction to blackmail IPOB, stating that IPOB remained one and indivisible IPOB family.
"Nigeria Police must have planted all the materials and the persons to be used for their dirty business. But as always, Chukwu Okike put us ahead of their evil agenda. Again, for record purposes, IPOB and ESN don't use bombs in their operations and do not have any bomb factory anywhere. If there is any bomb factory discovered in the East, then Nigeria Fulani controlled Police must have set it up with their terrorist brothers, the Fulani herdsmen who are bomb experts.
"We demand full and independent forensic investigation into the so called bomb factory so that the lives of our people will not be endangered by enemies whose agenda for years has been to exterminate us and take over our lands and resources," he pleaded.