The indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has raised the alarm over arrest and detention of its members by men of the Department of State Services, DSS.
The group said the APC-led government was using its security agencies to unjustly arrest and detain its members who were only fighting for their freedom.
IPOB in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emmanuel Powerful and obtained by DAILY POST on Sunday, claimed that the DSS had perfected plans at a recent meeting held in Abuja to eliminate every member of the group.
Powerful said “the recent abduction of its coordinator, George Onyeibe in Delta State was a clear signal that this government wanted to wipe them out.”
According to him, “The newly appointed IPOB Africa Representative and member of the Directorate of State (DOS) Mr George Onyeibe from Agbor Delta State has been kidnapped from his house by men of the Nigerian DSS.
“They ransacked his house, molested his wife and rough handled his children during the kidnap according to a neighbour who observed the whole disturbing incident.
“It is deeply worrying that this APC Nigeria Government, through her security agencies especially the DSS, have renewed their clampdown on innocent family members of IPOB just because we are exercising our God given right to self determination.
“It is very pathetic that the Nigeria Government and her security agencies are completely ignorant or failed to read the declaration made by Federal High court Abuja on the 6th of March 2017 concerning the legality of IPOB.”
He added that Onyeibe’s whereabouts still remained unknown to his people and IPOB members.
“For the avoidance of doubt, all his electronic gadgets and properties were either seized or destroyed by the DSS operatives who lunched the attack on him around 2am on the morning of 22 April 2017 in his house in Obiakpor Rivers State,” he alleged.
He also claimed knowledge of a recent anti-Biafra meeting held in Abuja by officials of the DSS.
“Our intelligence unit has also uncovered meetings held in Abuja by the DSS where they perfected plans to secretly eliminate any IPOB member they lay their hands on.
“We are also aware that our members have been executed in cold blood by this murderous and tyrannical Government of APC led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari through his DSS. They have cleverly devised system of killing any IPOB member arrested on the way to before they reach their dungeon”, he alleged.
The IPOB spokesman called on the international community to come to their aide.
“We are calling on the community civilised nations within the UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the US Government, European Union, African Union, men and women of good conscience around the world, Russia Government and other relevant Human Rights Organizations around the globe to prevail upon the Nigerian Government and her security agencies especially the DSS to release our African Representative George Onyeibe and others, or charge them to court if they are still alive,” he added.
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