DSS planning to incite genocide against Igbos?
Pro Biafra groups in the southeast have accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of planning to tag Biafra groups as terror movement to find grounds to decimate its members.
Speaking on the backdrop of recent accusations by the DSS that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) kidnapped and killed some Hausa-Fulani residents in Abia state, the IPOB and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) said the accusation was a plot by the agency to incite genocide against Igbos in the North. According to The New Telegraph, the IPOB media and publicity officer, Emma Powerful and MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, have dissociated their members from the said abduction and killing Hausa-Fulani residents.
The IPOB spokesman said: “They want to create pandemonium and provoke genocide against the Igbo in the North. It is a creation of DSS Abuja to discredit them as a terrorist group.” He noted that killing was not on the agenda of IPOB, since they were organised freedom seekers, recognised by the United Nations and not terrorists. “IPOB has never for once planned to attack anybody because what we are pursuing is more than killing herdsmen. We are pursuing the restoration of Biafra and not after Hausa or Fulani people. We are not part of any abduction or killing of herdsmen.
We are not kidnappers. We are mature. “The allegation was concocted to portray IPOB as a terrorist organisation. If at all people killed herdsmen, they are not IPOB members.” He said it was ridiculous for the DSS to link IPOB with any killing of the Hausa-Fulani residents and urged the secret police to look for the killers elsewhere. “This is the highest frustration exhibited by Nigerian security agents against Biafra agitators to blackmail them as violent and terrorists, so as to see evidence against Nnamdi Kanu.” he said. Adding that: “MASSOB or IPOB can never be deterred or jittery because of frivolous and baseless allegation of frustrated DSS.”
The MASSOB leader, therefore, urged South- East Governors to quickly convene a stakeholders’ meeting on “the menace of Fulani fundamentalists” in the zone.” In the same vein, the brother to A brother to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to desist from branding Biafra agitators as terrorists. He said the IPOB is a group strictly focused on self-determination, which the group is aimed at achieving, stating that his brother has done nothing wrong, Prince also called on the DSS to engage in finding better reasons to jail Kanu rather than misleading the world.
