By Valentine Amanze
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the opening of a new world headquarters at Langenfeld Germany.
The ceremonial event, according to the group, will hold between December 8 and 9.
In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, “Due to increased global awareness generated by the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the need to effectively harness the positive attention this has brought on the activities of our movement, we, the family members of IPOB and its leadership worldwide, wish to proudly announce the public opening of our brand new official world administrative headquarters of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the Deputy Leader Uche Mefor and all members of the ruling Directorate of State (DOS) on the 8th and 9th of December 2017 in Langenfeld Germany”.
The statement added that the ceremony will demonstrate the commitment and zeal of the worldwide family of IPOB to meet the administrative challenges of its renewed diplomatic offensive and demands of the upcoming mid-2018 independence referendum of the territory of Biafra.
Also, it said, the ceremony will serve as notice to all friends and well wishers of Biafra that Langenfeld Germany is now the one and only officially recognised world headquarters of IPOB from which every authentic information regarding the agitation for Biafra liberation will emanate from.
According to the group, it still has official regional liaison offices in London United Kingdom, Tel Aviv Israel, Ankara Turkey, New Delhi India, Los Angeles, California USA with many more expected to open in major countries of the world before the last quarter of 2018.
These offices it claimed, will continue to serve as regional points of contact but are not authorised to issue any diplomatic directive.
That prerogative of this is the exclusive preserve of the world headquarters in Langenfeld Germany under the direct supervision of Mazi Chika Edoziem, the Head of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
It warned that any correspondence from any other quarter not sanctioned by Langenfeld Germany and signed by Mazi Edoziem should be regarded as fake and inauthentic.
It said that as it prepared for Biafra referendum next year, it expects “every Biafran both home and abroad to begin the crucial sensitization and education of not only Biafrans but non-Biafrans alike,” adding, “IPOB is working tirelessly hard round the clock in every major country and continent of the world to restore the dignity and sovereignty of the Republic of Biafra”.
It said that Biafra independence struggle championed by its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, dead or alive, is resolute and determined to restore Biafra regardless of the human and material cost and invited all Biafrans, especially those in Europe, friends of Biafra, lovers of freedom, men and women of goodwill across the globe, to be part of the opening ceremony of the group headquarters in Germany.