The Punch Editorial Board has listed the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) among terrorist groups in Nigeria.

In an editorial published on their official website titled "Crush bandits, don’t grant them amnesty," the news media included IPOB in the list of terrorist groups in Nigeria.

Punch made the inclusion while explaining why Nigeria ranks high in the global terrorism index.

Part of the publication reads, "Because of the bandits, killer Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram/ISWAP/Ansaru, and IPOB, the 2023 Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria as the eighth most terrorized country in the world. Together, these terrorist groups slaughtered 63,111 Nigerians between 2015 and May 2023, the National Security Tracker estimated."

IPOB is a separatist group agitating for an independent state of Biafra.

The group believes that its region has been marginalized by the Nigerian state - with less to no inclusion in the Nigerian polity, underdevelopment, and continuous exclusion in benefiting what the other regions benefits from the goverment.

In 2017, the Nigerian state proscribed IPOB as a terrorist group - which is been contested in the court. This happened under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari, the immediate past president of the country.

Nigerian government accused IPOB of being responsible for many atrocities in the easternregion of the country, with their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, still under detention despite a court order asking for his release.

IPOB, on the other hand, accused the government of extrajudicial killings of its people, and has always distanced itself from any crime committed in its most occupied region. However, they are responsible for the sit-at-home exercise affecting the activities in their region - an event that the group started after their leader was arrested in Kenya and sent to Nigeria in 2021.

Punch publication differentiates between terrorists and agitators - using Niger Delta Militants whose fight is about true federalism and resource control as agitators - which did not see IPOB doing the same.

progoh:


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gidgiddy:
And has that brought any peace? Nigerians are far more interested in what will bring more violence than what will bring peace.

This is how the government brought violence to the South East with operation python dance. Declaring a military operation in a peaceful area and tagging an unarmed group that touched nobody, as a terrorist group, in desperate bid to crush anything about Biafra

Today, peaceful agitation and protest have gone and been replace by violence

Those who make peaceful agitation impossible, will make violent agitation inevitable ~ JFK

adekolaelect:
Among the Terrorist sighted. from their statement you will know them.

Absuchat:
OPC did worse. They are the first terrorist group in Nigeria

Absuchat:
OPC did worse. They are the first terrorist group in Nigeria

tamdun:

Wake up

jogojogo:

Stop decieving yourself

Absuchat:

Stop being deceived

Macphenson:
South East was relatively peaceful before the disaster Buhari ascended throne.

IPOB was doing their campaign peacefully and harmlessly before disaster Buhari ordered, "Operation Python Dance" where harmless and armless civillians were massacred for no just cause.

Fulani herdsmen were ravaging the forest of south east, killing people, raping women and destroying farmlands.

All appeal was made to governments from local to state up to Federal level but nothing was done to stop their dastardly act, as is the case of Benue today, then Nnamdi Kanu formed ESN and all hell was let loose.

I remember when Owerri prison was invaded, those on ground said the invaders do not understand Igbo.

Recently Asari Dokubo made a chilling revealation himself of the operations he carried out in south east and Kaduna Abuja highway, interestingly the DSS is yet to invite him for open display of high calibre ammunition, and to explain more in his activities in south east.

jogojogo:

An ipob spotted here

jogojogo:
Yea, the South East was the most peaceful before operation python dance.... operation python dance was brought for no reason than to introduce violence...
.so say the deluded ipob apologist

beerfraud:
IPOB is the 10th most deadliest terrorist group in the whole world

Absuchat:

OPC is the first terrorist group in Africa. It has killed more people than Boko Haram since its formation

adekolaelect:
Among the Terrorist sighted. from their statement you will know them.

beerfraud:
bring your source

Absuchat:

OPC is the first terrorist group in Africa. It has killed more people than Boko Haram since its formation

Absuchat:

Let's have yours

beerfraud:
don’t forget that you have another 14 good days to sit at home again as directed by Mazi Simon Ekpa
If they born your father and your mother well let them to and tap palm wine if they will not receive proper beating

beerfraud:


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