Claims of attacks on Fulani herdsmen to encourage killing of Igbos ---IPOB

(Nigeria) Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the North of raising false alarm that Fulani herdsmen are being killed in the South East in a bid to start another round of slaughtering Southerners in the area.

IPOB noted  that the alleged false allegation of killing northerners in the South was being orchestrated by a “faceless Northern Consensus Movement,” saying that this style was used by the North to prepare the grounds for the pogrom that followed the January 1966 coup d’état in the country.

IPOB in a statement entitled “déjà vu 1966,” by its Spokespersons, Mr Emma Mmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya, said  “50 years ago, faceless groups sprung up in Zara, Kaduna, and Kano among others,  all alleging that the January 66 coup d’état was an ethnic coup. Northerners, they claimed, were being killed all over Eastern Nigeria.

“These sponsored groups, stoked the embers of hatred and prepared the ground for the horrendous three wave pogrom of May 29; June 2; July 29; August 2;  September 29 and October 2, 1966 respectively in which hundreds of thousands of Easterners mostly women and children, were systematically slaughtered all over the northern Nigerian.

“Those faceless groups, that prepared the grounds for the unprecedented genocide, quickly disappeared into thin air.

“Date line: 2016. Another faceless group, Northern Consensus Movement, which claims to be a coalition of northern groups, even though only the Miyetti Allah turned out the only recognizable group among obviously fake others, alleged that hundreds of Northerners are being killed in the south east, and went on to advice the Federal Government to treat IPOB the way it treated Boko Haram.

“It is instructive, that the entire south west based media houses have never noted any attacks on Northerners in the South East. It is also surprising that these false allegations are coming only from President Buhari’s own organization, Miyetti Allah.

“It is also quite interesting to note that no Nigerian has heard of any attack of northerners in the South East, except this strange coalition. They did not give date, instance or town in the South East where in their own words, hundreds of innocent law abiding citizens of northern extraction living in the south eastern part have been killed in cold blood; with their businesses and properties destroyed.

“It is very disturbing, that none of these hundreds of northerners alleged to have been killed in cold blood in the South East, was ever reported to the police or in the local or international media.

“This déjà vu of 1966, clearly confirms to all, that the Daura led Department of State Services, DSS, and the Presidency are totally unrelenting and committed to their predetermined agenda of firstly, accusing the East falsely of committing murders in order to justify their pre-arranged agenda of genocide against Eastern Nigeria.

“This systematic agenda of heaping false allegations in order to levy war on IPOB has been ongoing for months now.  We recall the strange allegation of killing and burying five Fulani in an Abia State forest, the grave site, which the DSS has vehemently refused to show media men, till date.

“Next were DSS sponsored characters, Sampson Babalola and Stephen Onwu with their non-existent groups (which parroted the allegation by the organisation). Now, it is a fake coalition packaged by Miyetti Allah, prodding the Federal Government to levy war against Eastern Nigeria. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

“Now that they have progressed to the macabre dance of hiring unknown coalition to voice out the pre-determined mind set of the Presidency, our struggle (for the realisation of Biafra) has been confirmed (justified) by the reality on ground.

“It is clear that nothing will stop the pre-determined agenda to conquer Eastern Nigerians by military might, in furtherance of the Born to rule ideology.  These deep cravings to crush, dominate and permanently enslave Eastern Nigerians informs the agenda to adopt the 1966 format of false allegations, organized genocide, then full blown war.

“Those who could not see reasons, why we want to opt out of this hell called Nigeria, clearly can no longer feign ignorance of the deep seated hatred in the heart of the APC – led Presidency which is venting its frustrations over its inability to address the national economic challenges that are clearly beyond them, on unarmed, peaceful agitators, whose only crime is their prayer for freedom from a hellish prison; where they have no future.

“As the clock ticks towards Armageddon, IPOB worldwide is convinced more than ever that our freedom has become inevitable. Resorting to manufacturing false allegations against the Eastern region, in order to justify the mindless oppression, is a sure sign of cluelessness. Time is clearly running out.”