Ekpa arrest by Finnish govt stopped sit-at-home in S-east - IPOB
By Chinwe Nwacha, Onitsha
The leadership of the indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has revealed that the arrest of Simon Ekpa, the leader of Autopilot, by the Finnish Government stopped the Monday Sit-at-home in the entire Southeast zone.
The group made this revelation while reacting to the alleged blackmailing of IPOB and ESN by the Nigerian Military that they are responsible for the enforcement of Monday sit-at-home in the zone.
The spokesperson, Emma Powerful, who made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra state said that IPOB has been vindicated by the arrest of Ekpa as it earlier accused him of enforcing it not IPOB or its Eastern Security Network, ESN.
"IPOB members and ESN Operatives are disciplined freedom fighting volunteers fighting for survival. IPOB and ESN are the reasons that the State sponsored Fulani terrorists have not turned Biafra Land into a mass grave.
"ESN Operatives are the reason why Ndigbo still go to the farm. ESN Operatives are paying a heavy sacrifice in curtailing the activities of Fulani terrorists.
"The reason that the Nigerian government and her murderous military are targeting and blackmailing ESN daily is so as to destroy all the defense lines of Biafrans.
"ESN remains the last defense for Ndigbo. The Nigerian Army has not defended any indigenous tribe in Nigeria against the State sponsored foreign Fulani terrorists let alone defending Ndigbo that they wish should be exterminated.
"Any Igbo person falling for the Nigerian Government's blackmail against IPOB and ESN is a fool who hasn't understood the level of hatred that the Nigerian State has against Biafran people" the group said.
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Arrest of Ekpa by Finnish govt stopped enforcement of Sit-at-home - IPOB revealed
By Cyprian Ebele , Onitsha
Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), revealed Tuesday, that the arrest of Simon Ekpa, the leader of Autopilot, by the Finnish Government stopped the Monday Sit-at-home in the entire Southeast zone and beyond stating that IPOB has been vindicated by the arrest as it earlier accused Ekpa of enforcing it not IPOB or its Eastern Security Network, ESN.
The movement made the revelation while reacting to the alleged blackmailing of IPOB and ESN by the Nigerian Military that they are responsible for the enforcement of Monday sit-at-home in the zone.
In a press release by the IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, made available to newsmen, he said, " IPOB members and ESN Operatives are disciplined freedom fighting volunteers fighting for survival. IPOB and ESN are the reasons that the State sponsored Fulani terrorists have not turned Biafra Land into a mass grave.
"ESN Operatives are the reason why Ndigbo still go to the farm to date to farm. ESN Operatives are paying a heavy sacrifice in curtailing the activities of Fulani terrorists. The reason that the Nigerian government and her murderous military are targeting and blackmailing ESN daily is so as to destroy all the defense lines of Biafrans.
" ESN remains the last defense for Ndigbo. Nigerian Army has not defended any indigenous tribe in Nigeria against the State sponsored foreign Fulani terrorists let alone defending Ndigbo that they wish should be exterminated. Any Igbo person falling for the Nigerian Government's blackmail against IPOB and ESN is a fool who hasn't understood the level of hatred that the Nigerian State has against Biafran people.
"To the Nigerian government, IPOB and ESN are big obstacles to their extermination and displacement plan against Ndigbo from our ancestral lands. No matter the level of attack, blackmail and extrajudicial executions, and disappearances by the Nigerian government against Ndigbo, IPOB remains committed towards safeguarding our land and the self-determination of independence efforts.
"The Nigerian military boasted of demarketing IPOB and to make Ndigbo hate the movement using the infamous Monday sit-at-home, which the military and Police themselves helped to enforce. Before now, the Nigerian Army and Police patrol around some rural communities in the South East on Mondays, arresting youths seen on the road, thereby helping to enforce sit-at-home.
"The Nigerian government recruited the soulless criminals called Autopiloters to impersonate IPOB and ESN to kill and destroy our people and our people's properties on Mondays in the name of enforcing the sit-at-home IPOB already suspended. It was a convert operation between the Nigerian government and the agent provocateurs.
"Their agenda is to use the Monday sit-at-home to convince Ndigbo that IPOB is destroying their economy. IPOB initiated and suspended Monday sit-at-home after its first successful compliance. We had constantly condemned the violent enforcement of the sit-at-home, which the Nigerian Army and Police are part of the enforcement.
" Since the buffoon in Finland was arrested by the Finnish authorities, the criminals enforcing sit-at-home have gone into hiding. That's to tell you that the sit-at-home enforcers were recruited to commit crimes with the name of Biafra and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
"Nevertheless, IPOB commends Ndigbo, who voluntarily chose to sit-at-home on Mondays in solidarity with our illegally abducted and detained leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's plight. IPOB are the people, and people are IPOB! There is no strategy that the Nigerian government will adopt to make Ndigbo reject themselves.
"Telling Ndigbo to reject IPOB and embrace the Nigerian Army is like telling people to reject their saviour and to embarrass their killers. The Nigerian Army should discard the idea of destroying IPOB using bullets and blackmail because that is mission impossible. IPOB is rooted in a strong ideology of survival.
" The more Nigeria rejects and oppresses Ndigbo, the more the IPOB ideology is fueled. Nigeria has rejected Ndigbo politically, socially, and economically, and Ndigbo have rejected Nigeria in our souls and spirits. To us, Nigeria has ceased to exist, but only for a time," he stated.
