The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described itself as freedom fighters, and not in the league of militants or oil pipeline guards.
Apparently reacting to ex-militant Asari Dokubo’s comment on Nnamdi Kanu, the group said those campaigning for Kanu’s continuous detention should know that militancy for monetary gains is in the same category as criminals and terrorists.
IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement yesterday, said: “Those campaigning for the continuous detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the Department of State Services (DSS) solitary confinement forget that militancy for monetary gains is in the same category as criminals and terrorists.
“IPOB is not in the league of militants and oil pipeline guards. IPOB stand for freedom for Biafrans, including those on oil pipeline security guards for the oppressors.”
He regretted that the oil communities are today in ruins because people who should be making decisions on oil exploration in their region are the ones guarding the oil pipelines for the oppressors and their children.
Powerful also warned those using Kanu’s illegal detention to look for oil guard contract to be guided as ‘cajoling him cannot secure them contract, instead it will bring them down’.
He added: “People who can’t stand before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu anywhere in the world will use his name to buy favour.
“In a sane society, such people would have been in jail, but Nigeria is a country where thugs, terrorists and militants are respected and rewarded better than professors.
“IPOB is not in the same mission with any militant group. IPOB, headed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is fighting for total emancipation and independence of Biafra, where Biafra resources will be controlled by and used for Biafrans.”