The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged the public to ignore what the group described as “false claim by the Anambra State Police that they thwarted the kidnap of foreign nationals by IPOB in Ogbunka Orumba LGA of Anambra State,” insisting that such a claim “by the Nigeria Police is a fictional story meant to attract readers to think that they are working.”
In a statement issued by the group’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB chided the police for embarking on ‘cheap, childish’ propaganda, sneering that the police “failed to understand that the international community knows that they (Nigeria police officers) are unprofessional.”
“The unsubstantiated statement credited to the Nigeria Police as published by The Guardian newspapers of October 8, 2024 is a false claim, narrative and a deceptive headline to promote their criminal and unprofessional actions,” the pro-self-determination group said.
“The deceptive headline claimed that ‘The Nigerian Police rescued foreigners from IPOB in Ogbunka Orumba Anambra State’. For the record, IPOB has never and will never engage in kidnapping for ransom, talk less of kidnapping foreign nationals. The notorious Nigeria Police claimed in the newspaper that they thwarted the kidnapping attempt of foreign nationals by IPOB without providing further and full details about the incident. Instead of providing verifiable evidence of their bogus claims and propaganda, the notorious and criminal enablers, the Nigeria Police using some Nigerian compromised newspapers, started promoting their criminal activities.
“The unprofessional Nigeria Police and the compromised Nigerian journalists in the Guardian newspaper used a deceptive headline to attract traffic to promote the fake news from their moronic news sources. The Nigerian government and her unprofessional police working with some compromised media try to demonize IPOB while promoting the Nigerian security forces and their agents provocateurs. Their plans are dead on arrival.”
Emphasizing that it stands for the defense and freedom of Biafrans and will not use fake news as the Nigerian government and its agents allegedly do to deceive “gullible citizens”, IPOB claimed that “only a fool will listen to a man speaking from Nigeria police and their lies.”
“The police know that IPOB is engaging foreign diplomats for Biafra liberation. Only a fool will listen to a compromised institution in the world just playing an amateur script written by the Nigerian government to destroy the Biafra struggle. Acting on a poorly written script by the Nigerian unprofessional security agencies to damage the Biafra viability will not work. We can’t be involved in violent armed struggle and kidnapping and at the same time be involved in diplomatic engagements to restore Biafra. The police are being used by the government to denigrate IPOB and make mockery of the group’s pro-Biafra exertions. But those who wish to see the end of IPOB, we will see their own end first,” the group stressed.
“The public should ignore the concocted lies by the Anambra State Police Command that they thwarted the kidnapping attempt of foreign nationals by IPOB. The claim didn’t happen. It was just part of the fictional series by the Nigeria Police to attract traffic for the unsuspecting public to read the fake news from their criminals masquerading as Biafra agitators.
“The police are just doing the job of criminals to blackmail an innocent movement fighting for the liberation of its people. The Nigerian government, and their security agencies are relentlessly promoting their fake news to deceive their gullible followers. IPOB has overcome such infamous activities of Nigeria police. Nigerian Government sponsored agent provocateurs in the past, and this will also come to an end soon, and IPOB will keep matching forward.”
