Group denies burning Enugu mosque

chika ebuzor

September 19, 2017 9:23 PM

The Biafra group also assured non-indigenes and Northerners living in the South-East of their safety.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied burning a mosque in Enugu state.

The group also assured non-indigenes and Northerners living in the South-East of their safety.

According to The Sun, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful said “IPOB is not unaware of the desperation of the Nigerian army of occupation to cause mayhem and blame it on IPOB as a way of instigating counter violence against southerners in the north. The aim of this army of occupation led by exclusively Hausa Fulani officers is to distract our focus and firm resolve to force a peaceful referendum within the law. No amount of violence visited on our family members will dissuade us from this historic and legitimate course.

“Biafrans in particular and Nigerians in general should therefore blame any of such attacks on criminal gangs assembled by South East governors and federal government sponsored gangs who are baying for blood and whose aim is to cause misunderstanding between law abiding Biafrans and other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

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“We wish to further state unequivocally that Muslims and other non-Biafrans living in South-East and South South have nothing to fear from IPOB, as our members are committed to a non-violent, unarmed struggle for self determination, which is guaranteed in charters of the United Nations, international laws and other extant laws on fundamental human rights.”

The group has also alleged that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu might have been killed by the Army.

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