The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Friday, condemned the arrest of seventy, (70) Biafrans in Imo state.

In a statement he personally signed but sent by Emma Powerful, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Kanu said he has written to United Kingdom and United States respectively, warning that a peaceful agitation should not be construed as weakness.

He advised the Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma and the states commissioner for police, Isaac Olutayo Akinmode to release the arrested Biafrans.

His words: We wish to draw the attention of the creator of Nigeria, the Almighty Great Britain through the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, UK in Nigeria, the US State Department through U.S. Mission Nigeria, to the deliberate and orchestrated provocations/actions of the government against peaceful Biafrans.

“Without provocation and having not committed any crime known to law, a group of Biafrans numbering over 70 were arrested, humiliated and detained by Isaac Olutayo Akinmoyede, Police Commissioner in Imo State.

“Despite the daily carnage and mayhem in Imo State by herdsmen, no one has been arrested and detained in the police custody.

“Police are yet to arrest or parade suspects involved in the killings and destruction of farmlands in the State.

“This same police had the temerity to detain innocent people going about their business because they are Biafrans.

“Is the state governor and commissioner for police saying that Biafrans can be arrested at will even when no crime has been committed but herdsmen are free to roam and kill at will.

This level of provocation is unacceptable. If and when Biafran people decide to take matters into their own hands, let it be on record that the duo caused it. Peaceful agitation should not be construed as weakness.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/nnamdi-kanu-condemns-arrest-of-70-biafrans-writes-uk-u-s-to-intervene/

Coward like his fathers

You mean US and UK that helped us decimate Biafra

Untrained Nigeria security forces is really advertising ipob to the world

I will never understand the Nigerian police. Almost 70 peaceful unarmed people are travelling to see a native Doctor, you arrest them and claim they are going to get powers that will stop bullets penetrating their bidies so that they can go about snatching guns?

What kind of stupid statement is that? How can you arrest a person for a crime they have not yet committed?

The NPF is an embarrassment

Idiotic Nnamdi Kanu, you go write letter tire. After all your rantings on RB, you think anyone will ever take you serious. Anuofia!

Come home to rescue them

Funny how Nigerians cheer when the authorities are abusing their powers if it is people they dont like. They dont seem to understand that the injustice you support today could be the injustice visited on you tomorrow

Madmohamed419:
I don't think your own father is worthy of shining late igwe Israel okwu kanu shoe .may his soul continue to rest in peace.

Which of your fathers can rank among Awolowo, Ajayi Crowther, Herbert Marcauly, Soyinka, Adeboye, Kumuyi, OBJ, the black scorpion - the conqueror of Biafra, Mrs Alakija, Ronke Kale...? Your fathers have the history of running away from battle front like Zik and Ojukwu.

kingzizzy:
I will never understand the Nigerian police. Almost 70 peaceful unarmed people are travelling to see a native Doctor, you arrest them and claim they are going to get powers that will stop bullets penetrating their bidies so that they can go about snatching guns?

What kind of stupid statement is that? How can you arrest a person for a crime they have not yet committed?

The NPF is an embarrassment

the organization is proscribed, therefore any gathering in that respect will be considered as a threat to the nation.
Ipob organization is a terrorist organization, and we cannot allow terrorist to have a meeting in our land.

Mumu boy instead of you to come back Nigeria and continue with your professional scamming

He should come to Nigeria and bail them

Miracle1991:
the organization is proscribed, therefore any gathering in that respect will be considered as a threat to the nation.
Ipob organization is a terrorist organization, and we cannot allow terrorist to have a meeting in our land.

And your peaceful Fulani's herdsmen and bandits that are busy killing people are across the north and some part of the south are doing so to keep Nigeria one abi!

kingzizzy:
I will never understand the Nigerian police. Almost 70 peaceful unarmed people are travelling to see a native Doctor, you arrest them and claim they are going to get powers that will stop bullets penetrating their bidies so that they can go about snatching guns?

What kind of stupid statement is that? How can you arrest a person for a crime they have not yet committed?

The NPF is an embarrassment

Although I recognise your opinion but Ipob is no more a legal organization in Nigeria .they were proclaimed Terrorist group in Nigeria and nobody had gone to court of law to lift the proclamation .

BlowYourMind:
He should come to Nigeria and bail them

you are not nice !!! They buried his father and mother he couldn't come but you want him to come only to bail his supporters that KANU himself valued his Dog than ??

Marine54:
And your peaceful Fulani's herdsmen and bandits that is busy killing people are across the north and some part of the south are doing so to keep Nigeria one abi!

did you see where bandits are having meeting and the police didn't arrest them? You are free to accuse fulani for all the crimes in the world but as far as you don't have any evidence then all your allegations are useless.

Miracle1991:
did you see where bandits are having meeting and the police didn't arrest them? You are free to accuse fulani for all the crimes in the world but as far as you don't have any evidence then all your allegations are useless.

really? In other words, as long as they destroy and kill on over there and go free free it's okay. anyways, deal with the blood baths over their afterall, there's no evidence against them

Miracle1991:
the organization is proscribed, therefore any gathering in that respect will be considered as a threat to the nation.
Ipob organization is a terrorist organization, and we cannot allow terrorist to have a meeting in our land.

The organisation may be proscribed but going to see a native doctor is not proscribed. If a group of people go to see a native Doctor, what has that got to do with proscription?

Let me put it in another way. Lets say an IPOB member falls sick and needs to be rushed to the hospital. All his neigbours are also IPOB members. They rush him to the hospital but on the way, they are arrested and told they cannot gather and the IPOB members dies because of lack of medical attention. Do you think thats right?

Or lets say that there is a church and half of the members of the church are IPOB members, the IPOB members are to be denied their right to worship because they have gathered in Church?

Proscription only means that an organisation is no longer allowed to exist, it does not mean that the rights of the people such as freedom of movement and worship have been taken away

The proscription of IPOB actually showed that Nigeria is not a serious country. While other countries are proscribing violent armed organisations that are killing people, the Nigerian government chose to proscribe IPOB that is neither armed nor killed anyone

Niger Delta militants were armed and killed people, no proscription

OPC was armed and killed people, no proscription

Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people, no proscription

But it is unarmed IPOB that killed nobody, and are just waving flags on the streets, that government decided is the real terrorist group that should be proscribed. What a clueless country

adekolaelect:
Although I recognise your opinion but Ipob is no more a legal organization in Nigeria .they were proclaimed Terrorist group in Nigeria and nobody had gone to court of law to lift the proclamation .

Wrong, IPOB is the court of appeal trying to lift that proscription. But beyond that, do you have to be a legal organisation to visit a native Doctor?

kingzizzy:


Wrong, IPOB is the court of appeal trying to lift that proscription. But beyond that, do you have to be a legal organisation to visit a native Doctor?

you can go individually but not in group with the proclaimed Terrorist name .

Miracle1991:
did you see where bandits are having meeting and the police didn't arrest them? You are free to accuse fulani for all the crimes in the world but as far as you don't have any evidence then all your allegations are useless.

Crimes, human right abuse, inhuman torture break down of law are celebrated in Nigeria when your tribes men and relative are favoured, People are being killed every day by sponsored group of tribes and you are talking about evidence, when the appropriate Authorities refused to investigate there heinous acts, you wanted untrained pedestrian street armless uneducated people to arrest them and possibly prosecute them, Isn't it why the right authorities look the other way, All the atrocious and awful display of Fulani headsmen plus gangs of killers are reported every day whilst that one is not enough to you and you like to investigate their dealings .

Load of unscrupulous illiterate morons, you arrested someone for going about his business why criminals and bandits even terrorists are being released for deceitful repentance, to come and regroup to waste more souls, That nonsensical smoke screens

Miracle1991:
did you see where bandits are having meeting and the police didn't arrest them? You are free to accuse fulani for all the crimes in the world but as far as you don't have any evidence then all your allegations are useless.

You're asking him for evidence for his claim on the bandits. You called ipob terrorist, where's your evidence that they have terrorized anyone?

Miracle1991:
did you see where bandits are having meeting and the police didn't arrest them? You are free to accuse fulani for all the crimes in the world but as far as you don't have any evidence then all your allegations are useless.

Are you ok You need medical attention !

kingzizzy:


The organisation may be proscribed but going to see a native doctor is not proscribed. If a group of people go to see a native Doctor, what has that got to do with proscription?

Let me put it in another way. Lets say an IPOB member falls sick and needs to be rushed to the hospital. All his neigbours are also IPOB members. They rush him to the hospital but on the way, they are arrested and told they cannot gather and the IPOB members dies because of lack of medical attention. Do you think thats right?

Or lets say that there is a church and half of the members of the church are IPOB members, the IPOB members are to be denied their right to worship because they have gathered in Church?

Proscription only means that an organisation is no longer allowed to exist, it does not mean that the rights of the people such as freedom of movement and worship have been taken away

The proscription of IPOB actually showed that Nigeria is not a serious country. While other countries are proscribing violent armed organisations that are killing people, the Nigerian government chose to proscribe IPOB that is neither armed nor killed anyone

Niger Delta militants were armed and killed people, no proscription

OPC was armed and killed people, no proscription

Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people, no proscription

But it is unarmed IPOB that killed nobody, and are just waving flags on the streets, that government decided is the real terrorist group that should be proscribed. What a clueless country

do you know that those boys were chanting ipob,ipob? Do you know that they were carrying flags of Biafra? When organization is proscribed, you cannot gather again under that name of the proscribed organization. Secondly, you cannot raise another flag after surrendering and taking an oath to be Nigerians and obey the Constitution of Nigeria in 1970.
If you want your country go to your representative in the national assembly let them present the request in the national assembly. Stop constituting nuisances in the country.
Don't forget that those boys were moving under the name of Ipob knowinfully well that the organization is proscribed.

Wisfem:


Crimes, human right abuse, inhuman torture break down of law are celebrated in Nigeria when your tribes men and relative are favoured, People are being killed every day by sponsored group of tribes and you are talking about evidence, when the appropriate Authorities refused to investigate there heinous acts, you wanted untrained pedestrian street armless uneducated people to arrest them and possibly prosecute them, Isn't it why the right authorities look the other way, All the atrocious and awful display of Fulani headsmen plus gangs of killers are reported every day whilst that one is not enough to you and you like to investigate their dealings .

what I mean is that you can never accuse me of killing someone if you don't have any evidence. there are many crimes committed by ipob in the East but they will term it fulani herdmen. Can you remember the Reverend father that was attacked by Ipob for not obeying the sit at home order? But they started blaming fulani herdmen until the Rev father confess that it was Ipob.
Let me tell you the truth. As a security personnel I can swear to you that Ipob is not an armless organization. Ipob are stockpiling arms and the Nigeria military and the dss are aware of that.

Miracle1991:
do you know that those boys were chanting ipob,ipob? Do you know that they were carrying flags of Biafra? When organization is proscribed, you cannot gather again under that name of the proscribed organization. Secondly, you cannot raise another flag after surrendering and taking an oath to be Nigerians and obey the Constitution of Nigeria in 1970.
If you want your country go to your representative in the national assembly let them present the request in the national assembly. Stop constituting nuisances in the country.
Don't forget that those boys were moving under the name of Ipob knowinfully well that the organization is proscribed.

So what they are carrying the flag of Biafra? That flag has been in existence over 50 years, long before there was anything called IPOB. Besides, other groups such as MASSOB and BZF, that are not proscribed, use that flag. Nobody took an oat to be Nigerian, and even if they did, international law allows anybody or any group to agitate for independence from the country they belong to. Wether you get your representatives to table a request at the national assembly for independence or not, you are still allowed to agitate for independence

Nigeria is not a serious country. This is a country that has reduced a very serious issue such as terrorism to childs play.

Niger Delta Militants took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists

OPC took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists. Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people all over Nigeria from Southern Kaduna to Benue, nobody declared them terrorists

But IPOB that are not armed and did not kill anybody is who the Nigerian government believes are the real terrorists who should be proscribed

All the armed groups out there killing Nigerians daily, it is those going to see native Doctor that government is mobilising to arrest.

A useless country

kingzizzy:


So what they are carrying the flag of Biafra? That flag has been in existence over 50 years, long before there was anything called IPOB. Besides, other groups such as MASSOB and BZF, that are not proscribed, use that flag. Nobody took an oat to be Nigerian, and even if they did, international law allows anybody or any group to agitate for independence from the country they belong to. Wether you get your representatives to table a request at the national assembly for independence or not, you are still allowed to agitate for independence

Nigeria is not a serious country. This is a country that has reduced a very serious issue such as terrorism to childs play.

Niger Delta Militants took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists

OPC took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists. Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people all over Nigeria from Southern Kaduna to Benue, nobody declared them terrorists

But IPOB that are not armed and did not kill anybody is who the Nigerian government believes are the real terrorists who should be proscribed

All the armed groups out there killing Nigerians daily, it is those going to see native Doctor that government is mobilising to arrest.

A useless country

Can you swear with your life that Ipob has not killed anybody?