Fulani herdsmen attacks: IPOB hails Danjuma on call for self defence

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(Nigeria) Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has hailed former Defence Minister, Lt General Theophilus Danjuma (retd), over his call on Nigerians to defend themselves against alleged ethnic cleansing by marauding Fulani herdsmen across the country, following the inability of security agencies to protect them.
Reacting to the development, IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary,  Emma Powerful in a statement on Sunday, “Today, what the supreme leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said in 2014 is being re-echoed across the political landscape of Nigeria by no other than the very influential Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, who can be rightly classified as part of the northern ruling elite.
“Every categorical statement, prediction and utterance of our leader has come to pass. What is happening before our eyes today was foretold by our leader many years back and had those in power in Abuja listened to him rather than lock him up without trial, thousands of innocent lives could have been saved across Nigeria.
“We state without any equivocation that all those killed by marauding Fulani herdsmen and the Nigerian military that provide them covert support died in vain because people like TY Danjuma initially supported the oppressors and vilified Mazi Nnamdi Kanu instead of paying careful attention to what he was saying.
“The same way the likes of TY Danjuma from the Middle Belt have woken up to the reality of the failed state that Nigeria has become, hopefully, so will South East governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo and PANDEF do in the coming months,  assuming they will take a leaf from Danjuma and have the courage to speak the truth as boldly as Danjuma has done.
“Going by their previous slavish antecedents, it remains doubtful they will ever do so because of their lowly status in the affairs of Nigeria.
“The question we are asking is why didn't Danjuma use places like Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Palestine among others as examples?
“He mentioned the same country as Kanu did because he can now see clearly where Nigeria is heading to. This implies that these same people who publicly condemned the style of agitation of IPOB were secretly listening to our leader all the time but stubbornly refused to do something about the injustices he was preaching against.
“Nnamdi Kanu said that Fulani will kill, rape, burn, maim, abduct innocent citizens and nothing will happen to them. Today are Fulani herdsmen not killing with impunity with nothing being done to stop them?
“People should swallow their pride and come out to acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB were right all along. They should not be ashamed to apologise for their shortsightedness and lack of vision. Till date no single religious prophet or seer in Nigeria and beyond has come close to matching the accuracy of Kanu's predictions about events that are now unfolding in Nigeria.
“We are glad the world can testify that our leader and the movement he leads, mean well for ordinary people in Nigeria because an independent Biafra means freedom for all.”
It will be recalled that speaking at the maiden Convocation ceremony of Taraba State University in Jalingo, the state capital, Danjuma had condemned what he described as “unnecessary killings which is a target to ethnic cleansing on the people of Taraba and Nigeria at large,” adding that the situation must stop. He also called on the people to “rise and defend themselves against the killers.
“You must rise to protect yourselves from these people, if you depend on the Arm Forces to protect you, you will all die. “This ethnic creasing must stop in Taraba, and it must stop in Nigeria. These killers have been protected by the military, they cover them and you must be watchful to guide and protect yourselves because you have no any other place to go.”

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