The
Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday said the Anambra State Governor, Willie
Obiano, lied against its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, about his claim that its leader
had
exonerated him(Obiano) from the killings of some pro-Biafran agitators at
Nkpor, near Onitsha in 2016.
The group
insisted that the governor was allegedly culpable in the death of the victims.
It asked the governor or any of his aides to
present the video where Kanu exonerated the governor of culpability in the
killing.
A Senior
Special Assistant to the governor on Media, Mr. James Eze, had in a write up in
some national dailies said that Kanu had
in a visit to a traditional ruler in the
state absolved the governor of the allegation.
But in a
statement in Awka by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful,
the group dissociated Kanu from what it called “the concocted story” going the rounds.
The
statement said, “We the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, worldwide
under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu disassociate our leader
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from the purported and concocted rumours going the round the
city that during his (Kanu’) visit to Eze Eri Eze Chukwu Emeka of Aguleri that
he exonerated Chief Willie Obiano the Governor of Anambra State from the
massacre of IPOB members and Biafrans at Nkpor on the 29th and 30th of May,
2016 during the remembrance day celebration.
“We want to
make it categorically clear that the
IPOB leader did not exonerate Obiano but instead indicted him for not
halting the massacre as the chief security officer of the state and also for
reporting to the kangaroo Army Board of Enquiry that nobody was killed at Nkpor
and Onitsha head bridge when there were innumerable eyewitness accounts backed
up by video and pictorial evidence; the evidences were presented to the well
recognised international human rights organisations in the world like Amnesty
International and Human Right Watch etc.
“IPOB is holding Governor Obiano responsible
because about 60 per cent of those
butchered and buried in mass graves…
“To put the record straight, we are aware that
Governor Obiano did not kill anybody by himself or fired anybody with bullets
but as the number one citizen and chief security officer of the state he is
culpable for not rising up on time to stop the massacre of those that
campaigned vigorously for him in 2014 rather he came up through his information
commissioner condemned and tagged the innocent civilians who gathered to
celebrate their fallen heroes and heroines during the war of genocide against
the people of Biafra in 1967 and 1970 as miscreants and hoodlums who came to
destroy the state, it is on record.”
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