The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared no lockdown across the South East on Thursday as their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, makes emergency appearance in court.
In a statement titled “Our leader will be in court tomorrow but there will be no lockdown in Biafra land – IPOB“, the Media and Publicity Secretary for the group, Emma Powerful IPOB said:
“We wish to inform Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom that our Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be in court tomorrow, December 2, 2021 in Abuja.
“We therefore, urge Biafrans living in Abuja and its environs to come out en masse to solidarise with our leader.
“Meanwhile, there will be no lockdown tomorrow in any part of Biafra land as a result of the court appearance.
“Biafrans resident in Biafra land as well as visitors to Biafra land are free to go about their lawful businesses without fear of molestations or intimidation.
“We have not asked or authorised anybody to monitor or enforce any lockdown. Again, there will be no lockdown in Biafra land for tomorrow’s court appearance of our Leader.
“Only Biafrans and friends of Biafra in Abuja and its environs that are encouraged to be at the court premises.
“As a non-violent movement, we urge everyone to remain peaceful and law abiding in all their conducts.
“Security operatives should also refrain from infringing on the fundamental rights of people who come to cheer our leader.
“We all know that our Leader, Mazi Nnamdi is not being persecuted because of any crime other than his fight for our collective freedom.
“Therefore, we owe him a duty to stand by him until this darkness is over. We are all together in it.
“We commend the legal team of our Leader for their untiring efforts to defend our leader who is innocent of the charges proferred against him.
“We urge all Biafrans to keep praying for our leader, and the full restoration of Biafra Republic.”
In a related development, the IPOB scribe also raised alarm about a plot by the Federal Government to ensure that Nnamdi Kanu is held in perpetuity in the detention facility of the Department of State Security (DSS).
Emma Powerful stated:
“The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU wish to alert the public that we are not oblivious of the antics of the Federal Government and its security agencies particularly the Department of State Security in connection with these recent tales about jail breaks and attempted jail breaks in Jos and other places in Nigeria.
Our Intelligence reports and findings reveal that once there is any person of interest in the custody of the DSS that is scheduled to be transferred from their detention facility to prison custody, they arrange these prison breaks in order to convince the court that the Prison is not safe and is susceptible to attacks and jail breaks, and as such, the said person in their custody should not be transferred to the prison.
Which is why no meaningful investigation is ever carried out on these alleged prison break throughout Nigeria, in order to ascertain the actual perpetrators and bringing them to book.
This is further evidenced from what happened in the court on the 21st October, 2021, when the hearing of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s application for transfer to prison custody came up.
The road to the court and even the court premises were barricaded on all sides by security agents, such that lawyers and other responsible persons who had legitimate business in the court could not even drive close to the court premises, because they claimed that they had a security report that there will be an attack.
Curiously, the “attackers” who were clearly government sponsored thugs were allowed to drive past all the security posts mounted on the road, and down to where the DSS officers formed a human barricade, in order to attack Omoyele Sowore.
The DSS officers did not do anything to stop or apprehend the “attackers”, on the contrary, they kept pushing Sowore back and front to the thugs.
The same thing happened on the 10th November, 2021, when they hired the “One Nigeria Crooners” who came to confront Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s peaceful supporters who had always been there on the previous court days, without constituting any nuisance or breach of peace.
These paid agents came with coffins and other things meant to provoke the peaceful supporters, all in a bid to trigger a confrontation and fight between the two groups.
Imagine what would have happened on those two occasions if Mazi Kanu’s supporters did not have the spirit of discernment and avoided any confrontation with those paid agents of darkness.
The DSS and ministry of justice Malami and Co would have told the Court and the world that Nnamdi KANU peaceful supporters are capable of breaking him out of prison.
These games are orchestrated by the Federal Government, to discourage the Court from transferring Onyendu from DSS custody to prison custody.
Any reasonable person knows that it is the FG that turns peaceful gatherings to riots and peaceful protests to insurrections.
We saw them do it with the peaceful #EndSARS movement, which they infiltrated all over the country with their murderous thugs and the peaceful protest eventually turned violent, with the massacre of hundreds of innocent people.
Again, the killings going on in the east is part of the game. The lying machine of the Government- Lai Mohammed, was quick to issue a statement that the alleged killing of some policemen negates any talks about an unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
This statement exposes the intention of those behind the ongoing killings in Biafra land.
They are doing everything within their powers to ensure that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not released. We shall however beat them at their own game!
We are therefore putting the world on notice of this evil game being played by the FG, in a bid to ensure that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is held in perpetuity in the DSS Dungeon.”