IPOB, on Thursday, alleged that ‘hundreds of youths’ in Abia and Rivers states were currently missing, and ‘presumed dead’ in the course of the ongoing military operation in the South-East.
IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, who disclosed this to journalists, also claimed that some members of the group, who were detained in military barracks, had not been accounted for.
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Powerful stated, “Hundreds of Biafran youths are still missing and presumed dead at the time of this statement.
“The few survivors of the Isiala Ngwa massacre, taken to secret detention centres in army barracks in and around Abia and Rivers states, are still unaccounted for.”
Tthe IPOB spokesman described the military operation as ‘genocide’.
Powerful claimed that the pro-Biafra group has a ‘video footage’ of “men of the Nigerian Army stationed at Isiala Ngwa junction (in Abia State) dragging people out of their vehicles and executing them in cold blood in broad daylight”.
The secessionist further alleged that some leaders in the South-East were colluding with the federal troops to intimidate the pro-Biafran agitators in order to stop them from pushing for self-determination.
Powerful added, “Genocide and mass killings of Biafrans and Christian communities, especially in northern Nigeria, are nothing new. What is more troubling this time is that certain political office holders in the South-East are comfortable with the idea of inviting Hausa-Fulani Islamic army to come into Abia State to execute hundreds of young men and women in cold blood simply for asking for their right to self-determination.
“We hold Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu as majorly responsible for the cold-blooded executions going on now in and around Abia State at this trying time.
“Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu saw it fit to invite the Nigerian military with their deplorable human rights record, to his state to kill civilians.”
Speaking with The PUNCH on the telephone, Powerful explained that some residents of Umuahia converged on the police commissioner’s office to protest alleged killings of unarmed youths by soldiers.
“It is not true that our members attacked the commissioner of police. What happened was that some residents gathered at the commissioner’s office to protest, nobody attacked the commissioner but the police are saying IPOB members attacked the commissioner,” he said.
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