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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the police and the Imo State government of allegedly parading innocent youths as members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), insisting that the people being exhibited were not involved in ESN or IPOB activities.
It said the youths were being paraded based on trumped up charges in a bid to incriminate IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
The group disclosed this yesterday in a statement signed by its media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful.
The statement reads: “We, the IPOB, under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have noted with great amusement, the desperation of the Imo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Abudu Yaro, in collaboration with Imo State government, to implicate the ESN and IPOB through trumped up and laughable allegations.
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Kanu spoke in a statement issued by the outlawed group’s spokesman, Comrade Emma Powerful.
He issued the statement in response to Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day, a ceremony to mark the Nigerian Civil War otherwise known as Biafran War.
The IPOP leader frowned that Nigeria was still marking the 1967 – 1970 ugly event, which according to him, remained a genocidal war waged to annihilate the people of the old eastern region.
Kanu said, “Instead of treating Biafrans as equal stakeholders in the affairs of the country they have continued to subjugate and hunt down our people with the help of collaborators in government houses in the east and Igbo professional traitors based in Abuja and Lagos.