The group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said in a statement on Sunday that recent happenings have shown that the Igbo are not wanted in Nigeria.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has decried the alleged unfair treatment of the Igbo in Nigeria.
The group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said in a statement on Sunday that recent happenings have shown that the Igbo are not wanted in Nigeria, adding that IPOB members were attacked by security agents during a recent peaceful protest in Aba, Abia State.
In the statement, the IPOB lamented that security agencies allowed Shi’ites to protest peacefully but attacked its members in Aba.
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The statement partly read, “We are surprised that the Nigerian government and its security agencies, especially their army and police allowed the Shiite Islamic group who protested peacefully twice in Abuja to do so without humiliation or attack, but murdered IPOB members who were protesting peacefully in Aba, Abia State for asking for the unconditional release of their leader, Kanu on the 3rd of April 2023.
“It is now on record that Ndigbo are not wanted in Nigeria due to the hatred shown to us. We must organise ourselves immediately and leave Nigeria for the other nationalities who are allowed to act freely in Nigeria.”
The group also called for the “immediate release of the corpses of those killed to their families for proper burial, as well as the immediate release of the 150 peaceful protesters arrested and taken away.”
