THE Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, yesterday said that its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s only call, was for a peaceful referendum and not war.
It also said that Kanu, preached self-determination, not terror, urging the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Information to stop its attack and campaign against Kanu and solve the problem of killing by Fulani herdsmen they have been pampering in Benue State.
IPOB accused the federal government and its security services particularly the DSS of using the name of Nnamdi Kanu to cover for killings in Benue State and other states by Fulani herdsmen to divert the attention of the public.
It urged the Federal Government, DSS, and the Federal Ministry of Information to be bold enough to tell Nigerians if it was Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB, and the Eastern Security network that ordered the killing and massacre of people in Benue State.
The pro-Biafra group said that the problem of the indigenous people, like those in Benue State is their ignoring the warning of Kanu whom they and many other indigenous people called all sorts of names when he warned of the doom that is befalling them now.
IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that Nnamdi Kanu is a man divinely sent by God to liberate the indigenous people but he was ignored and vilified, arrested and is currently being detained unconstitutionally.
It said that unless Nnamdi Kanu is released the killing against the indigenous people in Nigeria by a particular ethnic group who feels they own Nigeria will continue.
The pro-Biafra group regretted alleged lies being perpetrated and sponsored by a section of the Nigerian media working for the Federal Ministry of Information and DSS, against its leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying that such gang up has collapsed like a pack of cards.
“What is currently happening in Benue State and other states, where a particular ethnic group has been killing people without anybody arresting them, is what our leader warned would happen many years ago and he was ignored and vilified. Instead of heeding his prophetic voice, Nigeria and some Nigerians conspired with foreign collaborators to kidnap him in a foreign land, in defiance of international law and the African Charter.
“A nation that rejects its redeemer must prepare to meet its ruin. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a man sent by Divine Will to warn and save the indigenous peoples of Nigeria from the coming darkness, was mocked, vilified, abducted, tortured, and detained. Now the land groans with blood and agony, and Nigeria must drink the bitter cup she has poured.
“Ministry of Information claims that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu incited violence in the Southeast. This satanic propaganda, issued in concert with DSS agents of death and destruction, is designed to blind the world from the real carnage, the butchering of Nigerian citizens by bloodthirsty, foreign-backed Fulani herdsmen masquerading as pasture-seeking normads, in Benue State.
“What manner of wickedness makes a people call their saviour an enemy while embracing their true destroyers? When Buhari’s regime attempted to hand over Nigeria’s rivers, streams, and lakes through the RUGA and Waterways Bill, to foreign terrorists masquerading as herdsmen, it was Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yes, he alone stood against it and rallied a sleeping population to resist it.
“He called for a peaceful referendum, not war. He preached self-determination, not terror. Yet, instead of heeding his prophetic voice, Nigeria conspired with foreign collaborators to kidnap him in a foreign land, in defiance of international law and the African Charter.
“And they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.” – 2 Chronicles 36:16
“Today, that wrath has begun. While the compromised media obsesses over Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, are ranting, Benue burns. Plateau bleeds. Southern Kaduna is razed. Some communities have been wiped out and replaced by armed invaders from the Sahel.
“Emboldened by silence from security agencies and complicity from the Federal government of Nigerian state, the real terrorists roam freely, the owners of the communities wiped while prophets are jailed.
“Let it be known, every drop of innocent blood spilled across Nigeria cries out against this nation.
Nigeria has committed the sin of Pharaoh, hardened her heart, and has chosen slavery by foreign marauders over freedom through truth.
“Like ancient Israel, Nigeria stoned her prophets and mocked the warnings from heaven. Now, the sword shall not depart from her land. “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” – Proverbs 29:1
“The time for hypocrisy is over. Until Nigerians both individually and collectively fall to their knees, confess their betrayal, and publicly or privately apologise to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the siege will not be lifted.
The God of Hosts will not relent. For what you did to His prophet, shall now be done unto you.
“Let the DSS parade a thousand false witnesses. Let the media print a thousand lies. But like Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Elijah before him, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has spoken the truth that only time will vindicate. Already, his prophecies have begun to unfold. The rest shall come to pass.
“Nigeria, you were warned. “Behold, I send you prophets… and some of them ye shall kill and crucify… that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth.” – Matthew 23:34–35. It is too late. The judgment has come “
the largest project done in the South East.
Mbam thanked Governor Nwifuru for the confidence reposed on him that gave him the courage and power to do more and deliver several projects across the three senatorial zones of the state.
The commissioner further said that many road projects have been completed both in urban and rural areas of the state while new projects were being executed daily.
He appealed to the residents of Abakaliki to exercise patience on the inconveniences caused by the closure of the road at Vanco junction and urged them to make use of alternative routes for now, saying that very soon the road will be opened for human and vehicular movements.
The event attracted the Speaker of Ebonyi House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Moses Odunwa, Senator Ngiji Ngele, Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese Anglican Communion Rt. Most. Rev. Monday Nkwoegu, Superintendent of Assemblies of God church Rev. Emmanuel Nshii, APC party faithful, youths Association among others.
In their separate remarks, they poured economium on Mbam whom they said has brought many youths out of poverty through his empowerment and scholarship programmes.
They however charged other wealthy persons and politicians to emulate the kind gesture to give back to the society that made them what they are as there is love in sharing the glory of God.
Some of the beneficiaries; Chimaobi Onele, Onyidikachi Ogbonna, Dan Nwojiji, Mabel Nwuzor, Nwachi Egwu, Cyril Nwalrgu, Happiness Nwiboko among others thanked Chief Mbam for lifting them.
They promised to be good ambassadors of Izzi Nnodo and Ebonyi State and to put the money into good businesses to generate more money to empower others in the the future.